It’s about time for me to return to drawing people. The sketch below is from a photo I took in Central Park. It was a bit wintry as recall. I liked the composition of the four older ladies facing one way and the younger man walking in the opposite direction. Please visit my Etsy shop […]
Here are all the meditations on Paddy Reilly’s, the Irish pub I used to visit when I lived in NYC. Paddy Reilly’s brought forth other memories that became part of this issue of my meditation series. Please visit my Etsy shop for my artwork for sale inspired by my autistic brother Mike at: https://autisminspiredart.etsy.com My […]
When I put my violin away for a while, I loosened the strings. I thought this would preserve it during prolonged disuse. After a while, I wanted to play again. I opened the case an took out my violin. I heard something rolling around inside. It was the sound peg, a small dowel, hand fitted […]
I wanted to merge the feelings of music and dance in this abstract meditation. However, the dancers, whom I tried to blur into an appearance of motion, just became blurred. I copied some of the music from a book of Irish fiddle tunes. (I may have omitted or spliced in a spurious measure in the […]
A more constrained abstract inspired by the music at Paddy Reilly’s. Irish music makes me want to get up and move, but I am (was) better at the fiddle than dance. Please visit my Etsy shop for my artwork for sale inspired by my autistic brother Mike at: https://autisminspiredart.etsy.com My other artwork for sale is […]
My meditation on Paddy Reilly’s led me to the times I would try playing the Bach Double Concerto with my father and my brother Dave. I think we got through it a couple of times, but not unscathed. Dad, although he was a highly-regarded physicist, had trouble counting the beats before he was to play […]
This is an abstraction of Paddy Reilly’s, the place I used to go to Irish music sessions. Please visit my Etsy shop for my artwork for sale inspired by my autistic brother Mike at: https://autisminspiredart.etsy.com My other artwork for sale is at: https://otherartbyjack.etsy.com
This rendition of the interior of Paddy Reilly’s is made up of sketches of individual photos I took during the jam sessions I attended when I lived down the block from this Irish Pub. Please visit my Etsy shop for my artwork for sale inspired by my autistic brother Mike at: https://autisminspiredart.etsy.com My other artwork […]
I used to play at Irish music jam sessions at Paddy Reilly’s in NYC. I’m pretty sure the three outside window sun shades were did not have green stripes, but I used my artist’s license to make up a color. One could say that the green awnings, along with the orange-y bricks are reminiscent of […]
I lived just down the street from Paddy Reilly’s for a while in the 1980s and 90s. I played Irish music on the fiddle back then. On Tuesday nights there was a jam session. I enjoyed that so much: blending in with the bigger sound of the many and varied instruments, the camaraderie, and of […]
