My GoodBad Twitter Account is Getting Some CURBED Love
ALPHABET CITY, Literally
I was lucky enough for Kickstarter to ask me to create a campaign for their new Kickstarter Gold program, which launched today.
Floorchid
Mrs. Robb's Bonnet
2017 pen & ink and watercolor on paper. 48" x 30" - more like this
Filthy Rose along Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn
progress of sketch to large finished watercolor - images added as they are completed in stages... more like this
Orchid Inking
small, Medium, LARGE
- buy flowers from place down the street
- draw flowers in sketchbook
- Do it some more
- draw larger version on 22" x 30" paper and watercolor it
- unroll a 80" x 55" sheet of watercolor paper from a roll
- staple it to the wall and soak it with water
- let it dry so it stretches out and will now lie flat
- sketch flowers on the huge sheet of paper in pencil
- draw over pencil lines in ink
- erase pencil lines
- draw thicker ink lines over previously inked lines
- watercolor once ink is nice and dry
- wonder why I just spent so much time and money doing that
- remind myself that it's way cool looking
- sell for a shit-ton of dollars
- wake up from lovely dream about selling art (see 15)
- repeat
How to Draw an Ampersand Building
Color studies
8" x 10" pen & ink and watercolor studies
Snowdrop Windflower
From Brooklyn Botanic Garden sketch last week: Type: Herbaceous perennial. Family: Ranunculaceae. Native Range: Europe, Asia. Zone: 4 to 8. Height: 1.00 to 1.50 feet.
Pink and Yellow Flowers
Cross Orbweaver
I've been working very slowly on a small drawing in my studio for about 2 years, and this is the final piece I need to add before I ink and then watercolor it.
Beach Rose
Giant Flower in progress
Sketchbook activity
True story: we found an old reel to reel tape recorder in the basement of a log cabin in the Catskills this week. It was lying on a table next to a human skin-bound copy of the Necronomicon but the power was out and we can't read whatever that weird blood-ink language was written in. Probably for the best.
NYPD wearing my donut pins!!!!
To be honest - I've been meaning to ask NYPD officers to pose wearing my donut cloisonne pins for months but I lacked the balls to ask. My 7 year old knew this and prodded me at the perfect opportunity today until I relented. They were so unbelievable cool about it...
Back to Nature
Looking back two sketchbooks ago I found some pleasingly beautiful botanical and seascape studies. I'm interested in seeing what they would look like scaled up (22" x 30" and 50" x 30") and drawn with pen & ink and intense watercolor.