(Above) Book 144, Saturn and Antares in Early Morning Sky, 5 am, 21 February 2016, watercolor, graphite, and pen and in on Arches paper in bound volume, page size: 4 x 12"
Sa...
The Page
The white page is snow. Planning preserves it. I compose the sheet with pencil, then pre-dampen sections with clear water. Then I paint watercolor into the wet.
Views of the World For many years I've kept framed prints by Andreus Cellarius hanging at either side of my studio window. The...
Photograph of the artist's journals, Book 123 through Book 132, 2004 - 2009. The foreground journal is open to a study for
Beach Walk, Part 1; Book 132 Pages 58 and 59.
Beach Walk, Part 2; Book 132 Pages 60 and 61.
Charles Ritchie, Journal entries for 15-16 January, Book...
Book 130, Entries for 25-26 May 2008 with studies of a tree at midday and the bright star Ve...
(above) Charles Ritchie, Night with Orion (work in progress, 27 March 2008), 11 1/4...
Book 130, Sketch of northern sky above illuminated towns, 7:20 pm, 27 Febru...
Self-Portrait with Night XI: Graphite, first...
Figure 1. Digital photograph of the north wall of the artist’s studio displaying a Celestia...
