First Inning Artworks

For the past several years, I have been asked to donate a painting for an auction for one of the student groups at the University of Alabama. Apparently someone bids on these things because the folks running the auction keep asking. I am honored to be asked. This year it was the Student Executive Council that requested the painting.

Most of the time, I have done something that includes Phifer Hall, the home of the College of Communication and Information Sciences. This year, I decided to do something a bit different and tried my had at Gorgas Hall, once the home of the Gorgas family and now one of the oldest buildings on the campus.

It’s a great building to draw and paint — lots of classic lines and a winding staircase and railing that makes it very interesting. So, too, do the archways that lead into the ground floor of this low country house. I decided on a worm’s eye perspective that makes the building look larger than it really is, but still I think it’s a fairly accurate representation.

Hope it sells and makes the kids a bit of money for whatever fine project they have in mind.

Bidgood Hall is a quiet giant of a building on the west side of the Quad at the University of Alabama. It is part of the business college complex and at any time of the day when the University is in session, it is covered with students. Rarely does it have a peaceful moment, as depicted in this pen and ink drawing.

This minimalist pen and ink drawing attempts to capture the building’s calm strength.

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11 x 14, Pen and ink on Bristol board

Price: $125

(This is an original piece, not a print.)

11 x 14, Pen and ink on Bristol board

Price: $125

(This is an original piece, not a print.)

Toumey Hall was constructed in 1888 and is currently the home of the Blount Undergraduate Initiative at the University of Alabama. For more than 70 years, from 1926 to 1999, it was the home of the University’s Army ROTC unit.