Here is a partial drawing, Grinding Gears of Time, by artist, Richard D. Burton. The drawing is 18″X24″. The main figure (Father Time) is just a sketch taped onto the substrate which has many of the floating gears in the background finished in the drawing.

Mr. Burton does many sketches as preparations for his drawings. He tapes pieces and portions of the sketches onto the substrate as he draws to make sure everything is working to his satisfaction. The drawing has been completed on the extreme left hand side, top, and top right. He now has to begin drawing the main figure into the drawing and tapes the sketch to make sure everything is fitting into the outline of the background. He has designed three clock faces in the drawing for directional control of his drawing – the clock behind the head, the watch in the hand, and the clock as a foot rest. The circular shapes of clock faces assimilate with the circular shapes of the gears which control the viewer’s eyes to the main figure.

The artist’s intent is to make an acrylic monochromatic painting of the drawing when he is finished. The painting will be of yellow ochre, with mixture of white and black. He hopes to make it a collage with pieces of a calender monthly headings seeming to wander in and out of the gears. He has never tried this before and imagines it with great anticipation. It is an experiment and we wish him the best.