These figurative mixed media works on paper created since 2015 begin at a weekly figure drawing session. I may draw in marker, pencil, crayons, china marker, or paint. These are 1 to 20 minute poses. Some of them feel complete in that time period and I stop there without adding more mixed media elements or text.  But for most of these drawings, I return to the studio and what I don't like, I paint or collage over. I return to figure drawing the next week and layer another figure. Then it’s back to the studio to cut, tear, glue, paint. And back and forth and back and forth reworking and reworking until I get something that speaks to me. I don't throw anything out. Everything is a background for something else. I work on many drawings at once in sizes varying from 5" x 7" to 36" x 54."