Today’s watercolor experiment: It took me a long time to find the photograph that I used as a reference for today’s watercolor. Back in 1989, I sometimes had two cameras with me, one with black and white film and the other with color negative or color slide film. I was very organized, keeping all my developed […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I came across a photograph I took during my wanderings in Brooklyn. For a while I lived in Bay Ridge, near the Verrazano Bridge. I have endless numbers of pictures of oil tankers making their way under the bridge. For some reason, that fascinated me. Now, I can’t understand why I took […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I took the photo on which I based today’s watercolor one morning in autumn of 1991. I love oblique lighting, the kind that side-lights a brick wall, casting long shadows of each imperfection. The light was just right on that September morning. When I proudly showed my photo to friends, I told them I would […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: One can always remember the location of some graffiti. In some cases, it is a landmark building, in which case the graffiti doesn’t persist for very long; in other cases the address is built right into the graffiti itself. The latter is the case in today’s sketch. The sign over the door […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I must have been focused on graffiti during my walk to Adorama back in 1991 (see yesterday’s sketch: Graffiti for Rent), or graffiti was so ubiquitous then, one couldn’t avoid it. A few frames later on my roll of film, I found a photograph of a bit of graffiti on a store […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: It was wintertime in 1991. I was on my way to Adorama in Manhattan to get some film. I don’t remember the entire route I took except when I stopped to punctuate my travel with a photo or two. The red must have attracted me. There was just something about it that […]
I saw this graffiti in May of 1991 on a walk through SoHo in New York City. SoHo stands for ‘South of Houston’, where ‘Houston’ is pronounced ‘How-Stun’, unlike the city in Texas. When I moved away from NYC, SoHo was becoming an upscale shopping area. I wonder how much graffiti still adorns the side […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I’ve been finding a lot of pictures of 1990s NYC graffiti in the archives of photographs I took while I lived there. The photograph below might be a newsstand or other kind of sales kiosk. It is hard to tell, since it is closed and padlocked. So, I call it my graffiti box. Today’s […]
