Mark Warren, A Retrospective

I am giving a talk at the 50th anniversary of the elementary school where I attended, and where my mother still teaches kindergarten. My mom has kept what appears to be every single drawing I have ever done in a box. No matter how strange or bizarre my obsessions were, she always encouraged me. I can only imagine what it would be like to hear a 5 year old ramble on and on about marsupials and dinosaurs.

I must have been a very odd kid. Thanks to Kelly Sherrod for taking these pictures!

Censer Bearers

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Pen and Ink, Acrylic Paint, Walnut Ink, Pencil- 18"x20"
2010

Anemograms- 2009

Anemogram with Stencil, Summer 2009

Anemogram with Paint, Summer 2009

Red Painting with Lines

Pen and Ink on top of Acrylic Paint with Colored Pencil Shapes

Green Painting with Lines

Size: One full sheet of Antique Rives BFK

Medium: Pen and Ink (Rapidograph) on top of Acrylic Paint

New Painting

About 9"x9", acrylic, fake grass, and pencil on paper

Inscrutable #2

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Children Love Dirigibles

Acrylic Paint, Colored Pencil, and Fake Grass on Paper, 30"x24"

This was a commission i made for my wee cousin Caroline. I anticipate her liking it, because lets be honest, who doesn't like hot air balloons, zeppelins, and dirigibles.
*Sorry for the poor image quality. It's a lot brighter in person.

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Drawn on Brown Paper

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I am not sure what these shapes are. Eggs, stones, topographical maps of hills, growth rings, thumbprints. Made from gesso (black and white) and blue opaque pigment markers.

Brown Paper Cutouts

A New Approach

Final Piece- Made using a two fan oscillation system with small anemograph(Little Brother), stencils, and paint. Started almost a year ago in Chapel Hill.

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