Quarantine Portrait Series: Self Portrait after Covid Test
Yikes! I didn’t know my sinuses went that far back.
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Vintage Photo: Draped Bust, NYC 1988
Quarantine Portrait Series: Relaxing
Vintage Photo: Bookstore, NYC 1988
I don’t remember the name of this book store. There were so many to choose from back then.
Quarantine Portrait Series: Self Portrait, Tilted Head
I’m having fun renewing my acquaintance with sketching. Just a few pencil strokes can shade more effectively than spending lots of time carefully perfecting dark-to-light gradients. Now, my challenge is to tighten up on the spatial relationships among facial features. If you look back on other quarantine self portraits in this series, you can see […]
Vintage Photo: ConEd Plant, NYC as seen from the East River 1988
I took this photo from the middle of the East River. This ConEd plant was very close to our apartment, and we saw it everyday. It looked different from the Circle Line Tour boat.
Quarantine Portrait Sketch: Drawing Lesson, Self Portrait
I looked carefully at one of Cézanne’s sketches of his son. I think he sketched the shapes that made up the face, not facial features. This is a different way of sketching, a different way of seeing. We’ll see how it goes.
Vintage Photo: Sunlit Subway Station at 79th Street, NYC 1988
It’s been more than 10 years since I moved away from New York City. I used to take the subway all the time, but I can’t, for the life of me remember the subway line which allowed sunlight into its 79th Street Station.
Quarantine Portrait Series: Sketcherly Self Portrait
The other day, I treated myself to a book about Cézanne, one of my favorite artists. I was inspired by his spare sketches, to concentrate on broad pencil strokes rather than replicating details. The study below is not Cézanne-esque, but is, perhaps the start of a new direction for my self portrait sketches.
Vintage Photo: Early Socially Distant Puppet Show, Central Park, NYC 1988
