This woman started as a mouth only. This guy began, loosely, as some character in what I was (sort of) watching, but turned out looking like that kid from Waking Life.
Watercolors from the sketchbook
Category: painting
The Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature During my visit to this inimitable and fascinating museum, one of the featured artists being exhibited turned out to be Walton Ford. He's a painter whose work I first became acquainted with on an episode of ART 21 on PBS, maybe a decade or so ago. At first… Continue reading The Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris
the Grotesques
I was at a friend's house the other night who owns one of a series of paintings I did in '05. I haven't done a proper painting in a couple of years, and looking at it, I wondered why. These paintings were all fleshed-out from sketches I'd done in many sketchbooks over the course of a couple… Continue reading the Grotesques
City people in watercolor
It's been awhile since I posted. I haven't been drawing much lately— partly on account of work things and partly on account of the weather being too lovely to not be outside walking, cycling, or sitting in the park with friends. These little vignettes are beginnings for a larger work that I'm illustrating for a client.… Continue reading City people in watercolor
watercolor : studies of hair
Some pencil and watercolor drawings from the sketchbook; mainly focused on rendering hair, which is great fun to paint with watercolors.
Some watercolor sketches
Schiele Portraits and a wander day in the city
Sunday was the first day in the 40s NYC has seen in months, and it was well appreciated. Went to the Neue Galerie with a couple of friends to have a look at the Egon Schiele portraits exhibit, and seeing his work in person is never disappointing. His linework is so sure and fine, and his… Continue reading Schiele Portraits and a wander day in the city
Exsanguination No.2
Pencil and casein paint in a Molskine sketchbook.
pen. marker. paint.
More pen, marker, and casein (Cadmium Red Deep) sketches from the book.
A Rite of Spring
Exsanguination No.1 : A ritual bloodletting. A symbolic sacrifice to speed Winter on its intemperate way and make room for the upset of a new season; of change. Nature’s not kind nor gentle— why should art be?
e daggar art: THE MUSEUM 