There's nothing like having half your space discombobulated by carpenters to get you to clean some shit up! Following the heavy rains a couple of months ago, several of the windows in our apartment got waterlogged and leaky, one so bad the drywall disintegrated at the top, leaking chunks of gypsum and attendant insulation onto… Continue reading Whooosh! men at work
Author: edaggarart
Visuals and fork collectrix. Artist and designer. Author of The Museum, an artist's blog.
I should have gone for a bike ride, or walked to the park– something outside, as it’s another beautiful day.
But I've been sitting here in front of the computer all day, getting very little done; seemingly no great ideas to add to my current projects, and utterly uninspired. Stuck. Stalled. Frustrating to attempt to be productive and fail.
Update: Freckles is finished.
The final piece- click on the image to see larger. What a lot of work this boy has cost me– so much penciling. Looks somewhat stoic and rather better than I'd expected, though, now he's finished. The process scans are useful and interesting (to me), as they are a reminder of at least some of… Continue reading Update: Freckles is finished.
The slow process of pencil-shading, mechanically
Mechanical pencil– mechanized shading therewith. It's a 0.5 lead, and much as I love working with it, I realize I'm attacking fine art with an architect or engineer's tool. What's one to do? One begins with, then becomes comfortable with, and finally attached to one's media. (It's a pencil I found in the Pratt library… Continue reading The slow process of pencil-shading, mechanically
Bluegrass at Banjo Jim’s
Saturday night, after a dinner of much Argentinian steak in the East Village, we wended our way to Avenue C and caught some live Bluegrass music at Banjo Jim's– a rather large and interchanging group of musicians for such a small space, and an enjoyable exercise in gesture drawing for me and my sketchbook. (A… Continue reading Bluegrass at Banjo Jim’s
“Lend Me a Tenor”
Directed by Stanley Tucci, starring Anthony LaPaglia, Tony Shaloub, and Justin Bartha– saw it at the matinee today- very funny. Shaloub is hilarious ("God Damnit!!"). More later, just jotting it down... Also– see Thursday's *new* drawing, as well as the rest of the cabinet card portraits I've been working on, at my folio grouping on… Continue reading “Lend Me a Tenor”
A drawing in three stages
Here's one that's more more sartorially ornate than the previous portraits, and this woman had an intense stare as she sat for the camera.
Pouffe is a nineteenth century French import for “something puffed out”.
Tuffet, pouffe or hassock are all terms for a piece of furniture used as a footstool or low seat. The names tuffet and hassock are both derived from English names for a small grassy hillock or clump of grass, in use since at least the sixteenth century. Pouffe is a nineteenth century French import for… Continue reading Pouffe is a nineteenth century French import for “something puffed out”.
Tempuratures at an all-time high
Another drawing-in-progress of an old photo– Update: click to see finished drawing. Well, it's no longer winter, but this drawing remains (as yet) unfinished. In other news, more of the same: strange, unsettling dreams to accompany the busy time that is Spring. No complaints! I would add some of the dreams here, but there is… Continue reading Tempuratures at an all-time high
darkness in sleep
Ghastly and morbid, dreams of the past few days. Mutation, illness and other catastrophes have been casting themselves against a backdrop of art, work and money. May none of them prove portentious!
e daggar art: THE MUSEUM 