This time I was the photographer and the graffiti artist! It was at the end of my shift. I don’t know how many times I told my colleagues, “Do not put open liquid containers in the garbage.” They never listen to me. I must have forgotten this fact because, after I swung the garbage bag into […]
I was just getting used to New York as my city in 1988, when I took the photo below. Everything about New York was new to me back then and I enjoyed the visual incongruences that I could capture in my camera. The scene below was taken in on 23rd Street and 5th Avenue looking […]
Imagine a world in which signs are obeyed. My photo below is a glimpse of such a world. The graffiti artist as well as would-be bill posters left the wall un-besmirched on this artfully-constructed wall. I guess the artist felt free to express him/herself on the federally-owned post office relay boxes. Or maybe I just got […]
It is getting harder and harder to read the news. I’m glad I’m old. This NYC graffiti from the 1990s is an apt comment on the state of affairs today.
The photo below came to mind as my posts of the past few days have progressed from representational to abstract (see Overdone?, Loquat Tree Detail, Nespoli, Abstract Nespoli, Nespol-Leaf Salad). I remember how cold it was that day in New York City. The sun was bright, however and the it was shining directly on the […]
I took many photographs of graffiti when I lived in New York City in the 1990s (see Listing of Previous Graffiti Sketches, NYC Graffiti Watercolors – For Sale). On one of my walks, I came across two extraordinary images. One was a cat that looked like it was wearing an overcoat, the other was a […]
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Another reminder: My watercolors of graffiti in New York City from the 1990s are still for saleat $90USD matted and framed. Here is the listing from my September 19, 2015 post: Listing of Previous Graffiti Sketches Thank you to everyone who enjoyed my graffiti sketches. I’ve listed a number of them below. I plan […]
I reached my goal yesterday of painting 2 dozen studies of New York Citi graffiti from photographs I took in the early 1990s, in each of two formats (portrait and landscape). In this farewell post to this series, I decided to paint two more studies to make an even 50 graffiti watercolor sketches. Today’s watercolor […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Just around the corner from my favorite newsstand (now defunct) I came across an interesting scene behind Grand Central Station in New York City. I love the girders punctuated with rivets. I have been looking around for an old Erector Set™ to build my own, but these days, however everything is made […]
