Within the past two years, I have ventured into Zen-inspired ink, graphite, and occasionally acrylic abstract drawings and paintings. For the drawings, I call on intuition to guide the brush or pen without consciously attempting to "draw" something, therefore expressing a more instantaneous and dynamic "moment in time" esthetic.
Stephen Dorocke, Untitled [Number 1], 2019-2020. Graphite and charcoal on paper, mounted on structure of bass wood and black walnut. Finished with flake shellac. 16 x 20 inches.
Stephen Dorocke, Untitled [Number 2], 2020. Tryptich. Sumi ink, charcoal and graphite on paper mounted on structure of bass wood and east Indian rosewood. Finished with flake shellac. 39 x 18 inches.
Stephen Dorocke, Untitled [Number 3], 2020. Sumi ink, charcoal and graphite on paper mounted on structure of bass wood and black walnut. Finished with flake shellac, 48 x 9 inches.
Stephen Dorocke, Untitled [Number 4], 2020. Pair. Sumi ink, walnut ink, charcoal and graphite on paper mounted on structures of bass wood and black walnut. Finished with flake shellac. 24 x 11 inches each.
Stephen Dorocke, Untitled [Number 5], 2020. Sumi ink, charcoal and graphite on paper mounted on structure of bass wood. Finished with flake shellac, 33 x 48 inches.
Stephen Dorocke, Untitled [Number 6], 2019-20. Sumi ink on paper mounted on structure of willow wood. Finished with flake shellac, 33 x48 inches.
Stephen Dorocke, Untitled [Number 7], 2020. Sumi ink and graphite on paper. Mounted on sycamore wood. Finished with flake shellac, 13 x 10 inches.
Stephen Dorocke, Untitled [Number 8], 2019-20. Charcoal on paper. Mounted on structure of sycamore and black walnut. Finished with flake shellac, 24 x17 inches.
Stephen Dorocke, Untitled [Number 9], 2019-20. Sumi ink and graphite on paper. Mounted on structure of sycamore and black walnut. Finished with flake shellac, 18 x 15 inches.
Stephen Dorocke, Untitled [Number 10], 2019-20. Sumi ink on paper. Mounted on structure of bass wood. Finished with flake shellac, 18 x 12 inches.
Stephen Dorocke, Untitled [Number 11], 2019-20. Charcoal on paper. Mounted on structure of bass wood. Finished with flake shellac, 21 x 24 inches.