Today’s watercolor experiment: One of my challenges today was to find one of my graffiti photographs taken in 1990s New York City, in portrait (or vertical) format. I am two sketches away from completing my goal of 24 graffiti watercolors in each of two formats: portrait and landscape. The photograph I chose was not an […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I am nearing my goal of 2 dozen graffiti watercolors in vertical format, to match the same number I painted in landscape. For today’s experiment, I revisited my ‘Bargain Spot Graffiti‘ post. I used a horizontally-formatted (landscape) photograph for that watercolor study. Today, I used another photo that I took of the […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: The emphasis of yesterday’s post was texture rather than graffiti. Today, in my experiment, texture is a major visual element of the composition, but graffiti is just as important. Today’s study depicts two different surfaces: brick face and wood. The plywood panels are easy to identify, from the details of the wood grain, the knots […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Today’s composition is more of a study in color and texture than an example of graffiti. I liked the greenish panel with the yellow block-letter ‘X’ (the name of the bar) in juxtaposition with the yellow door with blue and green printing. I tried to give a sense of grunge to this portrait […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Many years ago, shortly after I got my driving license, I took the car into New York City. It was an overstimulating experience, generating a kind of hyper vigilance. As I was making my way through the crowded streets, a man with a red day-glow flag seemed to be waving me to the […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: There are at least two layers of interest in my vertically-formated photographs, especially my street snapshots. On many occasions I have taken a series of shots of the same subject in horizontal and vertical orientations to get a better sense of the scene. David Hockney had an issue with the lack of […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: As unbelievable as it seems, sometimes my photographs are sub par. I know! Hard to believe. However even though the reference photograph for today’s watercolor is a bit hard to read, it inspired an interesting watercolor. I reversed the order of my images in today’s post, beginning with the reference photograph. It is a […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: One of my goals in this graffiti series is to make two-dozen paintings in portrait format and another two dozen in landscape format. In my days photographing graffiti in New York City, where I lived for more than two decades, I used the horizontal (landscape) format much more often than portrait. I have already […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: As promised, I found a photo with another graffiti star. There was some great graffiti on the wall under the FDR overpass near my home. I couldn’t fit the whole wall in today’s sketch, but the diffuse lighting couldn’t have been better if it had been lit by professionals. However, the section of […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: In my wanderings around Manhattan in the 1990s I repeatedly came across a peculiar symbol, a five-pointed star. In today’s example this star was emblazoned on a warehouse door. It is the only non-text symbol present. The other adornments took the form of writing in white. My version of the door consisted […]
