I did this drawing after coming home from a long bike ride. When I put the bike against the side of the house, I noticed the juxtaposition of the seat with the flowers and decided on the spot to do a pen-and-ink drawing. I was 19 years old.
I did this chalk pastel drawing in Death Valley while on a family road trip around the western states. At the time, we were settled into our campsite; the kids were happy in the pool, and I was free to do some pleinair art. I…
Print available on Jonathanmachen.art I painted this on January 16, 2023 at the Eldorado Springs Art Center during a session with my pleinair painter Norberto Ramirez. While I worked on the painting of the chair, Norberto did a painting of me. Finally, when I exhibited…
This little drawing, done while on a backpacking trip with Michael Conti in the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado in 2000, is another time that I used a lightweight field setup for sketching. I made a bunch of little paper squares for this trip, each…