If I don’t draw, I’ll explode. I draw to express my concerns with life and explore my imagination. I try to distill the vapor of dreams into the dance of lines on paper.

I don’t use models as my work all comes from my mind, but is firmly rooted in my experience. I start a work with a blank sheet and an idea.  I put marks on the paper to try and capture the idea, but in the process, the marks I’ve made take on a life of their own.  They call out needs and suggest things that modify and refine my initial idea and often I’ll end up with an expression of my idea that I could have never predicted when I started.

I have been traditionally educated with degrees in art emphasizing drawing and illustration.  I had an amazing career in Art Education and now that I’m retired all I do is my own art.

I create mainly drawings and watercolors and I usually run them through the computer to see how I can fiddle with them.  I shun graphite and continually hunt for pencils that will give velvety, dark, blacks.  My watercolors are created mostly with Winsor Newton products. Generally I don’t sell originals as I prefer to sell fine prints of my work.  I do originals for commissions including portraits.

LINKS

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IMAGES

Tom Wood, “Knock,” digitized drawing (Prints in any size)

 

Tom Wood, “Nurture,” digitized drawing (Prints in any size)

 

Tom Wood, “Dancing with Knife,” watercolor, 12X16 in. (Prints in any size)

 

Tom Wood, “Adam,” digitized drawing (Prints in any size)

 

Tom Wood, “Father Nature,” digitized drawing (Prints in any size)

 

Tom Wood, “Impatient Knife,” watercolor, 12X16 in. (Prints in any size)

 

Tom Wood, “Can’t Forget” digitized drawing (Prints in any size)

Tom Wood, “Impending Avocado,” watercolor, 12X16 in. (Prints in any size)

 

Tom Wood, “Accepting That,” digitized drawing (Prints in any size)

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