REALISTIC CHARCOAL DRAWINGS - CHARCOAL and PENCIL DRAWINGS-
 WESTERN REALISM by Larry Boyer

Realistic charcoal drawings can effectively render a sense of loneliness, emptiness and severity of beauty found in the western United States.  The ultimate purpose of these realistic charcoal drawings is to bring the viewer into the art experience immediately without the encumbrance of "photographic artness".

Another effect of these realistic charcoal drawings is to give the sense that the works are crafted by hands and has the feel of soft imagination rendered with care rather than by machine and chemistry.  I feel that this method gives a more realistic sense of "earth" that captures these sensitive western, yet often severe, subjects.

Charcoal drawings, due to their intrinsic range of values, involuntarily draw us into the visual western experience and can display emotional impact.  The resolving of forces through the detailed pencil drawings takes time, and so will impact the viewer and cause a person to have a relationship with the drawings.  It is this imaginative co-interaction with the artist, the realistic western scene along with the powerful charcoal realism that drives this art.