A variety of drawings from my colored-pencil collection all drawn in 1987:



The above drawing is titled "Last Night on the Train to Blackfriars". It was conceived as I was riding the "tube", as they call it in London, over to a theatre near the Thames to meet my then girlfriend where we were planning to see a Czechov play. I had originally intended to place a couple of figures in the foreground, but that never got done. It's a view of myself and my seatmates through the reflection of the glass across the train. The colors of my clothes and skin constrasted with those of the guy next to me in a way that made me remember them very vividly. Didn't have a clue (or care) what anyone else in the car was wearing, so I just made them shadows. -DEH 17 August 1987



The drawing of St. Paul's above was done while I was wandering around London the day I arrived, trying to figure out how the heck I was going to track down my girlfriend, Jennifer, who had no idea I was coming. I don't know how many times I have done the same thing, wandering around lost (or not) in a large European city with no plan for how I'm going to get in contact with the person I am meeting or to get where I am going. It's probably good in that it's given me some appreciation for what homeless people go through.



This (above) is one of the first drawings I ever did. My friend Andrea Darais has my first two in her sketchbook. Someday I'll try to get a hold of those and put them up here. The location is Chapmans' Cabin in Garden City, Utah on the shores of Bear Lake. Don't know why I used so much yellow in the sky and water. Must have been feeling melancholy or something.



A little something I drew at home while still living with my parents in Provo.

-DEH 17 August 1998, updated 19 July 2001

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