Urban Blues

Urban Blues consists of pastel works on paper completed in 2019 and early 2020. The city at night was the initial theme, the pieces expanded to embrace all that blue is for Geoff.

Stairway

Geoff Desobry

Stairway
2020
Pastel on Paper
Shared Space

Geoff Desobry

Shared Space
2020
Pastel on Paper
Seductress

Geoff Desobry

Seductress
2020
Pastel on Paper
Act 2

Geoff Desobry

Act 2
2020
Pastel on Paper
Lost Friend

Geoff Desobry

Lost Friend
2020
Pastel on Paper
Family Picnic

Geoff Desobry

Family Picnic
2020
Pastel on Paper
Done

Geoff Desobry

Done
2020
Pastel on Paper
Unconditional

Geoff Desobry

Unconditional
2020
Pastel on Paper
Trilogy

Geoff Desobry

Trilogy
2020
Pastel on Paper
Poet’s Room

Geoff Desobry

Poet's Room
2020
Pastel on Paper
Night Train

Geoff Desobry

Night Train
2020
Pastel on Paper
Higher Learning

Geoff Desobry

Higher Learning
2020
Pastel on Paper
Act 1

Geoff Desobry

Act 1
2020
Pastel on Paper
Wharf

Geoff Desobry

Wharf
2020
Pastel on Paper
Wish

Geoff Desobry

Wish
2020
Pastel on Paper
And She Loves You

Geoff Desobry

And She Loves You
2020
Pastel on Paper
Act 3

Geoff Desobry

Act 3
2020
Pastel on Paper
On Alert

Geoff Desobry

On Alert
2020
Pastel on Paper
Destiny

Geoff Desobry

Destiny
2020
Pastel on Paper
Meeting

Geoff Desobry

Meeting
2020
Pastel on Paper
Engaged

Geoff Desobry

Engaged
2020
Pastel on Paper

Featured Artists

About this collection

“My father’s formal uniforms were his blues.
Yankees wore blue.
Lightnin Hopkins and Muddy Waters sang the blues.
Eric Clapton and John Mayall played the blues.
Elvis Presley danced in blue suede shoes.
Michigan is maize and blue.
Giotto’s heaven was blue.
The Pacific Ocean is blue.
There is Chagall blue,
Starry Night blue,
and Picasso’s blue period.
There are November, 2016 blues
and Hill Street blues.
Miles Davis was kind of blue.
Les Bleus won the 2018 World Cup.
There is Mary blue, Navy blue,
Prussian blue, Sky blue,
Baby blue, Dodger blue, Titian blue,
And blue blood.There is blue grass. There is a Blue Nile,
and there are abandoned, homeless, lonely, dark alley, winter night, big city blues.
Earth is a blue planet.”