That great mechanical pencil got lost last Thursday, when I'd got about halfway through this drawing– lost it on the walk home I guess. So I had to go buy a new one. A changing of the guard; turning point, perhaps.
The Weather in New Orleans
Category: art
Profile on Moleskinerie
I've been added as this week's profile of a moleskine--addict on this website– fun! There are some selects from a few of my Moleskine sketchbooks and travel books on my flickr page, also, to which there is a link in the left hand column... (look for the black book with the electrofork skull on it)
this is what they look like in frames
These are selections from the cabinet card portrait drawings that I framed (cheaply, quickly!) to hang at Total Wine Bar in Brooklyn. They are for sale (even though I've yet to hang the tags with them), so please contact me if you're interested. You can see them in greater detail here. (The four 9"x12" drawings… Continue reading this is what they look like in frames
Curiousity and art-making
Research has been a theme of late. I stumbled upon something a week or two ago that discussed the use of polyester plates for lithography, wherein one might produce an image directly onto the polyester “plate” or use a laser printer or photocopier to impose an image. I found this intriguing as a possibility for… Continue reading Curiousity and art-making
bywater in rain
this corner of Bywater
(Or Bacchanal on the rainy day) Here is a pencil drawing I did this evening of the wine store/bar in Bywater that Ben and I fell in love with. The place was at the ass-end of Chartres Street, in an Industrial/residential milieu that definitely grabbed our Brooklyn-based minds (Think Gowanus area). This patchwork-quilt of a… Continue reading this corner of Bywater
some sketches from the NOLA moleskine…
The woman at the piano bar in Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop in the quarter; and a quick sketch of handsome Ben at same locale. (click to see full) Some of the folks hanging out at the Circle Bar on Lee Circle, just north of the CBD. (ditto with the clicking)
A smattering of New Orleans selects
Below are a very, very few selects from the photographs I took during our recent trip to New Orleans. I will be adding a rather large amount to my Flickr page soon, but for now... (see link under the third photo for more) UPDATE: There are loads of images on flickr now– click HERE to… Continue reading A smattering of New Orleans selects
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
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