Double Bumbler Orchid Graft sketch
Revised "Double Bumbler Orchid Graft" study to large watercolor
Star Island sketchbook for the week
Sketchbook stuff from Star Island (NH) last week, part of the Isle of Shoals
Lilly Mugshot
I love to obsess over [drawn] lines. How it's not just a 'line' but how each side has a surface and that there's a variable difference between those to surfaces - they have a relationship to each other. I went to grad school for printmaking but really I only wanted to learn more about drawing. I wanted to know stuff that I never understood, like when, where and why to make lines thicker and thinner. I'm still learning about it and not unlike skateboarding - learning a new trick opens more doors to learning more tricks - more tools to keep in my toolbox. I still love looking through my toolbox and thinking about what to use on a drawing and maybe (hopefully?) know why to use that tool. But often it's just me taking a tool from the toolbox and using it because it seems fun and seeing what happens and inevitably learning something cool from it. Click for more like these.
Old Sketchbook Sunday
I can't stand sitting around doing nothing so when our family went to the beach I decided to bring a shitty old notebook and broken-down brush pen along with me. I don't want to get sand in my current sketchbook and I thought it'd be nice to do quick sketched where nothing was too precious. I need practice anyway. Now it seems it's the perfect thing to carry with me anywhere I go since I'd much rather pass the time sketching than searching Twitter hoping to see that impeachment proceedings have begun.
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
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.
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.
The Log Cabin
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.
240 Centre Street, SOHO, NYC
3-8-17 sketchbook
I've recently become more interested in drawing from life. Too early for an appointment in SOHO and with unseasonably warm temperatures, I found a great bench to sit on overlooking Lafayette and Broome street with a view of 240 Centre Street: the former Police HQ where I quickly sketched this page. Built from 1905-1909, it was used by New York's Finest until 1978. In 1988 it was converted to luxury condominiums because, of course it was.
