R Hoyt

Mother and daughter kissing. Graphite

Lisa and Isabella

All these iceholes need to be lined up to a wall and we the people use bear spray in their eyes.

Alex Pretti and Renee Good holding hands in front of Minneapolis peaceful protests.

“Pretti Good”
5x9” watercolors

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Minnesotans holding hands around an ice agent as he melts.

Melting ice with peaceful protests

I did this because of how this administration is trying to silence us. I want to show that we have her back and we are behind immigrants. An impressionist painting of protesters behind the Statue of Liberty. 🗽

The right to protest
Acrylic 20x16”

My step mother and her grand child at an Ottawa cafe

Happy holidays everyone, be with who you love.

This is a friends son, he loves the old time westerns.

Parker

I did this thinking about the bloodshed that when a republican is in our Whitehouse always starts an endless war of death. Still ring true today. A bloody hand print running down a glass with newspaper clippings of death.

GOP chaos

Glad she woke up, resigning the day before anniversary of insurrection is good.

Stay focused democrats, affordability is the number one issue on Americans mind and wallet.

“What to draw…”
Graphite

Colored pencil drawing of a single leak resting on top of water.

Autumn’s leaf

This is my mom at age 23. I did a large scale to practice on facial features. I used a brush to blend shadows into paper.

Mom
Graphite
24x18”

My Boston terrier helped me with this one. His paw prints are the changing of the leaves.

Autumn

An oldie but a goodie. Flowers are always good to post

Fuck Russia

Another satisfied client. Him and his daughter, in graphite pencil

Colored pencil rough sketch of lips

Same picture but with hand sanitizer on top of pencils

I’m practicing on colored pencils for a drawing I want to do. Experimenting on blending.

“I've been sleepin' on the sidewalk
Rollin' down the road
I may get hungry
But I sure don't wanna go home”
Queen, News of the World

Graphite pencil of a peeled banana with light to the upper right casting a shadow. I used a lot of negative space here.

Banana

My brother in law is looking towards the building while his two sons and their friend is looking outward. People have told me that this would make a great album cover. I gave this to my sister.

Untitled
Colored pens

Ladies drinking wine and socializing with each other. I really like this one. I’ve tried to recreate, but can’t seem to do this loose flow of the figures. I must have been in the mood for this style at the time.

Ladies night
Acrylic

A study of line drawing of a seashell on top of sand with the mountains in the horizon. I did this piece in the early 90’s

White Sands NM
Ink

A mason jar filled with corks I have so many corks. Yes I like wine. I’d like to revisit this now that I understand light and shadows better. But who knows, this piece sold for $100, so I guess it’s all about what the viewer likes.

Corks
Acrylic

Let’s see….this was a dream I had. I just saw a bunch of spheres rolling towards me in darkness. Shoots of light were breaking through in waves or clouds. What did it mean? I don’t know, but it was very vivid so I painted it. Simple as that.

There Is No Direct Light
Acrylic 20x16”

The writing on this piece is Japanese, one for Henry the other for Rabbit. These are ceramic rabbits that I worked from. I worked under a blue light.

Henry the rabbit
Acrylic

A Ukrainian woman face drawing, she’s wearing a sunflower in her hair.

I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦
Graphite

Private sector in June loses 33,000 in jobs. Leave it up to the 💩 circus.