Above is a photo of 2 of 7 of the cedar shake pieces (Apologies for the lo-res and the noise, they are drying on my ‘kinckknacktionary’ resin table. Brooklyn = small apartments) Painting again, oils: three sessions in a week. Feels natural and good (I missed the smell of linseed oil). I’ve been sharing my… Continue reading Cedar shake moonscapes & notes on materials
Walking through Gowanus at sunset Spring is upon us! Still a bit chilly, but a notable shift has begun this past week. As I noted a few weeks back, it’s been a busy [new] year for me so far; hell it's been busy the past couple of years in general (yay). Not over-taxingly so, but… Continue reading Orion’s waning tenure
Brooklyn laundry ladder via flickr hive mind There’s a slender ladder in the yard behind my house. I’ve seen it a thousand times; it starts at the ground and goes exactly nowhere. Patiently ignores the barking of the dog in spring. I know it was planted to thread clotheslines to the windows, but the pulleys… Continue reading unplanned obsolescence
Here is a sliver (sans graphics) of another illustration I've been working on this week for a client's event. Viking woman meets Metropolis is essentially the visual theme— although it's more specific, as will be apparent in the final, to be released on electrofork in May. Until then, just a taste. It was a nice… Continue reading A fine spring day and an illustration
For the good citizens of Queens, a new edition of prints! These will be available as prints at Lockwood Shop in Queens within a couple weeks! Possibly the alternate as well— the borough of dreams edition... (after the jump)
I’ve just walked up the hill from Prospect station and that wind is a vicious bitch from the part of hell that’s just a cold emptiness. It’s carrying a cheerless snow that gathers in shallow pockets which suddenly wisp away, or at you— spineless little hell ghosts slithering the sidewalk on ice-dry bellies. I think… Continue reading fearsome gusts and corrective lenses
Sneaky peek update. Colors are happening; atmosphere. It's fun. I love it when work is enjoyable, satisfying; when I feel like I'm doing good work. Edited to Add: sneaky peek at (a slice of) the final. Complete with cheerful bistro lights and voyeur-tempting glows from apartment windows. Full artwork to be released in May on electrofork.
Here is a sneaky peek at an illustration I'm working on for a client. It's depicting a street in Gowanus, although modified. There is likely a bit more drawing to do, but I like the skeletal look of it in outlines. The final product will be colorized and have some shading, transparencies— a nighttime scene,… Continue reading illustration in progress
Book Club followed up Goon Squad with How Should A Person Be? by Sheila Heti. I’m going to skip the majority of our collective critique points from Saturday and keep it short: it reads as a collection of personal essays or do-dads (a blog) written by a person in her twenties, with a few toothless fictions thrown… Continue reading How should a person write?
Another Dan McCarthy piece, 'The Winter' Trudging through heavy snow on a blue-wet winter evening; there’s a waltz in my ears and I can’t remember what summer tastes like. The wind stings but it’s not as bad as it sounded from indoors, where the gusts skirted the aluminum sashes and made veiled threats. There’s something… Continue reading The Winter
e daggar art: THE MUSEUM 