Tag Archives: color
Trendy Blue Building
Yellow Restaurant Building
Graffiti Close Up with Colorful Pole
Color Amidst the Gray
It has been rainy out here lately. I was surprised to see this rainbow superimposed against the gray.
The Italian Lesson
My study of drawing with colored pencils has revealed one fact that has upset my learning curve: the best paper to use is that which has texture (known by the term “tooth”). The journal that I have committed to use is a Moleskin sketchbook, which uses perfectly smooth paper. This substrate is ideally suited to […]
Shadow, Sidewalk, Leaves and Spraypaint
I like the rich, diverse array of color, shape and tone in this shot.
Another Upper West Side Door
I snapped the picture below during the same walk on New York’s Upper West Side that I took the photo of yesterday’s doors (see Sunrise Doors). Below are two sketches of this door. The one on the left side is a pen and ink drawing in which I attempted to replicate the gray values of the photograph. […]
Self Portrait
I painted another portrait of Mike today. Mike is my older brother who is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. Mike was home during my early childhood, but was institutionalized when I was about 10 years old. Now he is in a geriatric group home. I haven’t seen him in a while but oddly, he still […]
Keen and Round Colors
Today’s watercolor experiment: Again, I had to stop reading Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art to try out some of his hypotheses. I’m fairly certain that to Kandinsky, his view of the spiritual nature of form and color was not hypothetical. For example, he says that ‘keen’ colors such as yellows are naturally suited to sharp […]
