Tom Wagen's Art

Pencil sketch of a home in the old Portuguese district of Rio de Janeiro

This was the first time that I used gesso board - I constructed the picture by first drawing a draft of the picture and then transposed it on the gesso board - then I used watercolor as my primary media and color pencil as a secondary media.

Iris - watercolor done while on an extended weekend visit to the West Baden spa near French Lick, Indiana

Attempt at drawing rocks in the ocean using graphite for the rocks; and color pencil and pastel for the water

Pencil sketch of Alice B Toklas - Gertrude Stein's lover