Inspired by my friend Homare Ikeda, I have started doing a drawing a day – usually a portrait, usually directly in pen-and-ink or pencil. Here are a few of the drawings I’ve done this month.

Orion and Rio, November 2019

Michael Conti walking the Holy Cross Wilderness

Cameron Powers and Kristina Sophia, November 2019

Patty Machen playing mandolin

Scott Warren, No More Deaths, pencil drawing by Jonathan Machen

Pete Wernick, Niwot Grange Hall 2019

Birdie Bernie Sanders – from his famous speech when a small bird landed on his lectern.

Cochise Baca at a wedding ceremony, Flagstaff Mountain, Boulder Colorado

Paige, Rio and Bowl of Grits

Ed Ironcloud

Homare Ikeda, Oct 2019

Orion, Rio and Paige Oct 2019

Bernie Sanders Oct 2019

Alexander Vindman Oct 2019

Alex Green Oct 2019