Bruce Combs 30 Nov 2011

Hi, Cheryl! I can't remember how I happened onto your drawings here, but I'm surely glad I did! I like lots about each one of them, and I think they show a lot of talent that is not easily learned, if possible at all. Say, construction and balance (usually of out-of balance subjects!) and handling many "add-ons" here and there, that gave me a happy little surprise when I would find them, at first -- then I would go searching for them in every drawing! Some how, each makes me think further (and your brief comments tend to add another dimension, too, but watch-out that they don't become limiting to what a viewer might see\find and how they view it. (A similar problem for all of us with titles, too, but yours seem to me more restricted to relevant explanations heading a viewer toward some major idea leading to creating these unusual, imaginative constructions. Please forgive me for rambling on like an old man, Cheryl, but I want to tell you that I like most all you've done here, though this is especially my favorite (I think you are equally successful with either real or imagined animals -- enjoying thinking up what you call "conjunctions" -- is that some non-"American" English translation for something like "off-spring," "child of," "combination"? Perhaps it suggests to some people, cursed with a mind that wanders directions like mine, to think of images of interesting copulations. I also feel some "conjunction" between your work and "cartoonists" of earlier times, and drawings by some people whose names I can't recall (old man again!), as well as surrealists here and there. Most of all, Cheryl, I urge you to keep drawing whenever you can, and maybe even keeping a journal listing ideas for future drawings. Do you look at modern art and photos of traditional works from history? Do you have a good teacher\coach? I would guess that you get many, many ideas without even trying to think of them! Do you draw a lot and only post the few that you think\like best? What business is it of mine to pry with so many questions into a mind that seems to know already exactly what she wants to do and how -- she wants\intends -- to do it. I'll be back again. Peace, etc., Bruce

Károly Pató 23 Oct 2011

Good.