22 x 30 Color pencil

Years ago while living in Costa Rica, my mom and I spent a weekend doing tourist stuff in Panama. A tour guide drove us around on an unusual tour. (But that’s another story). The “tour” visited a little old lady at her house somewhere in the middle of nowhere where there were these huge boulders scattered around her property covered in  carved hieroglyphs. She even pulled out an ancient National Geographic that showed an article of her husband showing them to the archeologists that were studying them. This spritely lady grew her own coffee, picked it, roasted it and ground it all by herself. All in the middle of nowhere, in a beautiful little shack of a home in paradise.

There was a large homemade rocking chair on her narrow patio and I snapped a photo of a slim yellow dog napping. It was such a big chair and it made me wonder at the possibility that he made a daily habit of skillfully climbing on that chair without it rocking too much, circling around and plopping down for a nap in the sun.

Years later I pulled that photo out and wanted to draw it in a large format. I found a wonderful piece of very heavy paper stock with a nice deckle edge that was 22″ x 30″ – here is the finished piece in color pencil. Click the detail image for a closeup view.

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