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.
2017 NYFA Fellowship
I'm part of New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) newest class of Artist Fellows!
Botanic garden sketches
Sketchbook studies from today's trip to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Click for more like this.
Hibiscus Color test
9" x 11" graphite and watercolor test for larger drawing. More botanical stuff here.
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.
My GoodBad Twitter Account is Getting Some CURBED Love
![I was interviewed by CURBED for my twitter account that's dedicated to documenting good-bad hand darwn signs [mostly] in NYC.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5005fc2ee4b09ef22529406a/1498161298055-HJRBQFYZ36FFRCVE88MH/Screen+Shot+2017-06-22+at+3.54.07+PM.png)
I was interviewed by CURBED for my twitter account that's dedicated to documenting good-bad hand darwn signs [mostly] in NYC.
My favorite art blog, Art Fag City picked up the CURBED story! Yay!
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
