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.
Sorry for being ORGANIZED
Dumb Video? Check. Great Print? DOUBLE CHECK.
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
small, Medium, LARGE
"Begonia Baloney" 2017, 52" x 70" pen & ink and watercolor on paper
- 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
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.
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...
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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?
