Grayson Bray Morris

Drawing is putting a line round an idea.

Henri Matisse

Drawings

After a STEM-heavy high school career, I flounced off to art school. (First I took a detour through No More School At All Thank You Very Much, a wonderful year of local bands and wild parties and general late-night drug-infused decadence that left me with an abiding love of punk rock, twelve decorative earholes, and a nostalgic affection for neon shades of hair.) My love of math and science won out in the academic end, but my brief foray into art gave rise to the below.

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after Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man · pencil on paper · Grayson Bray Morris 1986 · see Da Vinci’s original
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after Fuseli’s portrait of John Cartwright · pencil on paper · Grayson Bray Morris 1986 · see Fuseli’s original
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cats, cats, cats · pen, crayon and pencil on paper · Grayson Bray Morris 1986–90 · My cat was a steadily available subject for assignments and, later, just for fun.
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after forgotten original (likely a Nat Geo photo) · ink on paper · Grayson Bray Morris 1986
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after one of Da Vinci’s many old men · pencil (and coffee) on paper · Grayson Bray Morris 1986
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after Ingres’ Comtesse d’Haussonville · pen and ink on paper · Grayson Bray Morris 1986 · see Ingres’ original