This piece was invited to be part of an exhibition at the Boehm Gallery at Palomar College. The piece is called "Camera Shy" and was done completely in white charcoal on Mi-Tientes paper. This piece was done using the grid method. We had to take a small picture and make it at least 25% larger.

In the second semester of the art class, we started using both white and black charcoal. It was a little more difficult to use since we weren't allowed to mix them. This was a study in perspective which was an excellent lesson for me since I had been away from the art world for so long. I also have to give credit to my art teacher Diane. She was great and I always recommend her.

I had been away from art for some time so I decided to start taking some art classes. I started out with Drawing & Composition which was a class that used only dry media. For this particular piece, we were supposed to take a color picture and convert it to black and white using black and white charcoal. It took about three weeks to do this project. This was a little outside my box since I prefer doing portraits and figure drawing. We did this drawing using a grid much like the old masters. It started out as a small picture which we were to increase by size.