PENCILED INK

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These works are a series of paintings titled, "Penciled Ink".

It is a collaboration of talents, the pencil sketch being rendered by Susan and the painting then completed, using ink as the medium, by Doug.

We hope you enjoy this combination of our varied styles.

CHAR WOMAN

8"x 10" 1

pencil and ink

06-05-2015

COUSINS BY LOVE
8"x 10" pencil sketch

The original pencil sketch of "Cousins By Love",
which inspired our series of ink prints titled, "Penciled Ink".

COUSINS BY LOVE

5" x 7" 2
Pencil and Ink

Being a rather special subject for Sue this is a portrait of her Daughter and her Niece who are, indeed “Cousins by Love”, as love precedes all things and binds us with a power far greater that even that of birth.

This is my second attempt with this work , I eventually realized that the first painting was completely inept and had passed beyond redemption so I set it aside and began afresh with a new scan of Sues sketch.

I feel that this work comes as close as my talents allow in capturing the marvelous color Sue embedded within the lines of her pencil drawing, which the unsuspecting eye might see if the gaze lingers a bit too long.

I hope she feels the same.

        --Doug L.

EXPRESSING THEIR LOVE

5" x 7" 1

Pencil and Ink

OCEAN GIRL

5" x 7" 3

Pencil and Ink

Immediately upon viewing Sue's sketch of Ocean Girl, I felt the allure and heard the siren call of her seeming innocence which, upon closer inspection, proved to be an all but true attraction.

She is not in any manner, after first glance, at all innocent rather, she is well versed in the seduction of one who falls under the sway of her emerald gaze and becomes drawn into the depths of her charm.

She left us at her first public showing and went home with the second suitor who dared to pause a moment too long, gazing into her eyes and listening to her call.

--Doug L.

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"The Sultan of Swoon."

11" x 11"
Pencil Sketch
by
Susan Hartline

Between 1943 and 1946, Sinatra's solo career blossomed as the singer charted 17 different Top 10 singles. The mobs of bobby-soxer fans Sinatra attracted with his dreamy baritone earned him such nicknames as "The Voice" and "The Sultan of Swoon."

"It was the war years, and there was a great loneliness," recalled Sinatra...

In later life he bacame known as "Ol Blue Eyes".

With a show business career that spanned more than 50 years, Sinatra's continued mass appeal can best be explained in the man's own words: "When I sing, I believe. I'm honest."

"The Sultan of Swoon."

7" x 7" print # 1
Pencil and Ink
by
Susan Hartline / Douglas L. Simmons
(found a home 02-22-2015)

"The Sultan of Swoon."

8" x 10" print # 1

Pencil and Ink

by

Susan Hartline / Douglas L. Simmons

SOMEDAY
5" x 7" 1
Pencil / Ink

THE CHAMP
6" x 8" 1
Pencil and Ink

TOUCH OF LOVE
5" x 7" 1
Pencil and Ink
(found a home 3-22-2015)

WISDOM
8" x 10" 1
06-27-2014
Pencil and Ink

Septima Poinsette Clark was born on May 3, 1898, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Little has been written about Septima Clark’s life, and many Americans have never heard of her; yet those who knew and worked with Clark remember her as one of the most influential women in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Known as the “Grandmother of the American Civil Rights Movement,” Septima Poinsette Clark was an educator and civil rights activist who played a major role in the voting rights of African-Americans.

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter awarded her a Living Legacy Award.

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FOLDED

by Douglas L. Simmons

Print 8" x 10" 1

FOLDED

by Douglas L. Simmons

Print 5" x 7" 1

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FOLDED

by Douglas L. Simmons

Print 5" x 7" 2

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FOLDED

by Douglas L. Simmons

Print 4" x 5" 1

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A LIBERAL WHIFF OF OPINION
AT THE REPUBLI-CRATIC TEA PARTY

8" x 11" Tempera Painting/Kansan Paper
by Douglas L. Simmons

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“If you can’t spot the constituents from across the room, it is quite likely you are at the wrong party."

Of course, that is the “go to” claim of the surrealist, should one deign to speak critically of their art...or of their politics. (Then again, you may actually be the skunk in the works.)

(However, the noun does appear to apply in both instances).

sur·re·al·ism: noun 

a style of...stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc. 

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BEAUTY SLEEPS

8" x 10" Digital Ink
by Douglas L. Simmons

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DADS DAY

by Douglas L. Simmons

Ink Rendering

7" x 9" 1

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Ink rendering from a photo of my friend Peter Katic and his Father Vaso Katic.

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DESIRE

by Douglas L. Simmons

print 8" x 10" 1

Pencil/Digital Graphics (One work on two canvases)

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This work was painted from an original pencil drawing circa the 1970’s.

I drew “Letting in the Darkness” and then turned the canvas over and drew “Longing for the Light” on the back side of the canvas (to show the subject looking through the portal and gazing into the opposite drawing). How I expected to frame the thing I don’t have a clue...

I put the original aside and it sat untouched these many years. 

Inspired by Sue to take up my art again I pulled it out and decided to complete it.

In the early months of 2014 the work as seen was completed using Windows Paint, Microsoft Digital Image and Ifranview.

--Doug L.

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DISTRACTED

Ink on Paper

 by

Douglas L. Simmons

print 8" x 10" 1

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EPHEMERAL

print 16" x 20" 2
by Douglas L. Simmons
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In an old black and white photograph I found a vision of time which the photographer had, knowingly or not, captured in his lens.

Inspired by this frozen flow I began a six month long attempt to say with pen and ink what I perceived with mind and heart: a passing moment that speaks of all eternity.

I can only hope for some small success.

The girl on the river walk, the water flowing past, the river and all about it, the buildings the mountains and the trees, the Earth even the Universe itself, whisper the word...

...ephemeral

Only time abides.

--Doug L.

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FALLEN

by Douglas L. Simmons

print 8" x 10" 1

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Fallen...

...In 1972, while observing from the deck of a tour boat plying the Rhine river in Germany, sailing past the remnants of other ages I gazed upward to see two large stone towers and a smaller turret still standing next to them, all that remained of a once massive fortress.

As I drew with pencil on my sketch pad, I pondered in my mind how the mighty structure must have loomed above the river before it had fallen.

Judging by the cliff face and the hill which rose behind the remains of the stonework I sketched in what might have once stood above me but, in reality, had been confined to the rust of history, oxidized away by time, fallen in all but my imagination...

--Doug L.

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FAWN IN THE SLOUGH

by Douglas L. Simmons

Print 7" x 9" 1

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This work was drawn from a pencil sketch made in Willow Slough, Indiana while sitting in the cold pretending to hunt rabbits.

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FOLDED

by Douglas L. Simmons

Print 12" x 16" 1

(found a home 06-06-2015)

Humans did not recently become self absorbed

 after discovering them-"selfie" in the "me phone".

The characteristic is folded into the very bedrock of our genetic structure.

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GROOVIN'

by Douglas L. Simmons

Print 7" x 9" 1

04-21-2015

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LAKE MICHIGAN SAIL BOATS

by Douglas L. Simmons
original pencil sketch and water color painting 9" x 11"
framed side by side
Given as a gift in 2010 to my good friend Peter Katic,
who, by example, inspires me to become more than I am.
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MONA WITH A SMILE
Print 8" x 10" 1
by Douglas L. Simmons
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MOONLIGHT
Print 8" x 10" 1
by Douglas L. Simmons
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 MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON

print 5" x 7" 1
by Douglas L. Simmons
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NIGHT OF THE COMET

by Douglas L. Simmons
print 8" x 10" 2
06-30-2014
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This is my second rendering of " Night of the Comet". The first painting was done sometime during the decade of the 1970’s using tempera paint on paper. It was completely destroyed in a flood ten years later.

All that remained of that work was a single Polaroid photograph.

Using the photo for reference I rendered a new sketch and completed this second work as an ink painting.

Such is life.

--Doug L.

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NIGHT SAIL

by Douglas L. Simmons

print 8" x 10" 4
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As a youth I sat on the dock in Indiana Harbor and sketched the sailboats making their way home in the twilight. I did not realize that over 40 years would elapse before I brought the painting in to shore...

    --Doug L.

    March 2014

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BELONGING

by Susan Hartline

original painting 12" x 15"

(found a home 2014)
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Belonging...to be a member of a group, to be proper or due; be properly or appropriately placed...to be bound by ties of affection, dependence, allegiance...

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CHIEF JOSEPH

by Susan Hartline

Original Painting 11" x 17"

(found a home 2009)

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Chief Joseph,  Nez Perce (Nimiputimt)

"I am tired of fighting...from where the sun now stands, I will fight no more.

-Chief Joseph

Chief Joseph, known by his people as In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat (Thunder coming up over the land from the water), was best known for his resistance to the U.S. Government's attempts to force his tribe onto reservations.

...his tactics were so brilliant they are taught to this day at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point...

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EYE TO EYE

by Susan Hartline

8" x 12"

04-03-2014

Prisma Color Painting
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Mat for this painting - provided by, Hoosier Highlander

JUST A FROG

by Susan Hartline

Print 8" x 10" 1

(original painting 7" x 9")

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IN BLOOM

by Susan Hartline

original painting 10" x 12" 02-28-2014

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You can smell the moist rich air of the greenhouse and feel the fresh new joy around you as you stand in the presence of life in bloom. The flowers, the mother, the room, the very earth itself, all breathed in for the first time by the center of the bloom...

...the young girl.

Who herself is flushed with the bloom of youth and life yet lived.

--Doug L.

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IN THE FLOWERS

by Susan Hartline

original painting

8" X 10"

(found a home 2012)
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INNOCENCE PROTECTED

by Susan Hartline

original painting 11" x 16"

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INNOCENCE UNDISTURBED

by Susan Hartline
original painting 6" x 8"
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MOSA

by Susan Hartline
original painting 8" x 10"
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A NEZ PERCE

by Susan Hartline

original painting 8" x 10"

(found a home 2013)

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Painted from a photo

taken in 1910

by Edward S. Curtis.

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POLAR DREAMS

by Susan Hartline
original painting 4" x 8"
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RULERS OF THE NIGHT

by Susan Hartline

original painting 11"x 12"

(found a home 2008)
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 Rulers of the night...

...spotting a glimpse of movement in the darkness beneath the trees, one might be motivated to add a log or two and stir the dying embers...

...knowing that, but for the fire, others rule the night.

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SAFE AND WARM

by Susan Hartline

original painting 9" x 14" 03-07-2014

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SOLITARY
by Susan Hartline
original painting new frame 12" x 14"
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TREPIDATION
by
Susan Hartline

Prisma Pencil on Cansun Paper

Framed 12" x 16'

Forgotten in the moment by the adults who face their own perturbations in the final tumultuous hustle of the ceremonies about them, caught up in this day which culminates weeks or months of planning,...

...the flower girl waits alone in quivering anticipation.

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UNDAUNTED
by Susan Hartline
 original painting 11" x 14" 02-21-2014
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Found a home May 31, 2014

Many portraits of Native Americans, printed in the dun Sepia used in early black and white photography to mimic color, succeeded rather more at profiling the image of a defeated and bitter warrior who, left with no outlet for the emotions which roiled within simply stood, back to the wall, in stoic resistance of the daunting forces washing across the lives and lands they had known and knew no more.

Proud and unafraid to die with the land they fearlessly lived with.

With "Undaunted" Sue has brought forth the image of one who has yet to see the terrible plague of progress sweep across a world out of time...

This Lakota Souix stands, proud and undefeated. Sure and certain of his stance and his place in this life, the Granite cliff at his back, not a trap, simply a backdrop in the scene which exhibits the solidity of the mountains and complements the strength of the warrior.

...and he bears no shame at the feminine softness of his features which he allows to show in the directness of his gaze. Within lives the spirit of the man, the husband, the father, the brother and the son. Without is the face of one who knows love.

Still, not painted into the portrait one can see, there is a darkness also about this man. He wears the insignia of the warrior but, needing none to demonstrate to others the power he commands, holds no weapon in visible threat...but, without the image on the canvas, at his right side lies the darkness, a part of him not flaunted in the light for the artist to capture, but demonstrated by it's absence and made more certain by a second gaze into the eyes...

...there is a darkness within as well...

--Doug L.

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