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
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...
get yours here
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.
[secret band] poster progress
The whole word measures about 21" across but will be shrunk down to 15" or 16" as a silkscreen print.
Drawing varying line widths is the most satisfying part of the inking process. If I don't exercise patience when applying 3, 4, 5 layers of ink I inevitably smear wet ink spots with my wrist.
A portion of the drawing for a Primus silkscreened (edition of 200) show poster for the summer.
![I rejected this first round because proportions were off (a painful exercise because this took a couple of [wasted] hours to draw). I especially didn't like how high the letters reached into what will eventually be the middle of the poster. It looks…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5005fc2ee4b09ef22529406a/1491511218590-3JJM459QF2KBWIQCAKT9/image-asset.jpeg)
I rejected this first round because proportions were off (a painful exercise because this took a couple of [wasted] hours to draw). I especially didn't like how high the letters reached into what will eventually be the middle of the poster. It looks weirdly blocky because I always draw these with straight lines to get relative measurements correct before curving the, uh, curvy parts.
Teachers from Memory in L.A. through May - live online NOW
My 2-person exhibition with the great Renee French "Teachers from Memory" is live online, though the actual opening at La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles is on May 8 from 6-8 pm. See descriptions of the teachers here.
TüGGE enamel sign
I like to imagine there's a company that makes pink tires meant only for the sides of tug boats. so I made a sign. I think I'll make more. Maybe with a yellow background instead of white?
Last Tug for a while, methinks
Click for more like this.....22" x 30" 2017 Tugboat pen & ink and watercolor on paper
Last Tug for a while
22" x 30" pen & ink and watercolor. Click for more.
If there was once a special brand of tires used exclusively for the sides of tugboats this would be an antique enameled metal side advert you might see in a nice Austrian restaurant today for decoration.
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.
Tug and Hug is done
Tug 'n Hug, 2017. Pen & ink and watercolor on paper. 6 ft. x 4 ft.
to show scale of drawing^
