Today’s watercolor experiment: I used to pass this Blimpie store all the time. It was on the northwest corner of 14th Street and 1st Avenue in New York City. Blimpie’s was an eatery that used to make submarine sandwiches (sometimes called heros or hoagies, depending on the part of US in which one resides). I […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: During my wanderings around New York City in the 1990s, when I lived there, I would sometimes find scenes that had a combination of image and information that mirrored my inner thoughts. Perhaps such themes are omnipresent but require just the right frame of mind to see, understand and photograph. I remember the building […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Yesterday, I presented my schematic sketch of the entirety of an auto repair shop structure based on a photo I took from the side (diagonally across the street, so I could fit most of it in the frame) and two photographs from the front. I was fascinated to find this out-dated, arched structure in […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I consolidated two photographs as a reference for today’s graffiti study. I took one of the photos of the warehouse at ground level, but could not get a good sense of the rest of the building from that vantage point. At the time (1990s) I used a darkroom on Vestry Street, on Manhattan’s west […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I chose a photo from one of my walks near the East River on the Manhattan side. It must have been early morning or at a time when the light just grazed the surface of an old, retired highway divider. The texture attracted me, plus the hand of the artist. Like the […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I enjoyed walking down Crosby Street in Manhattan during my 20+ years living in that great city. Beginning at Houston Street (pronounced, ‘how-stun’) Crosby runs south. The area South of Houston is also known as SoHo. One of the interesting shops that used to be there (as I recall) was a small storefront […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I have been looking through my archived photos of New York City street scenes. Most of them qualify for membership in my graffiti series. Today’s snapshot, like yesterday‘s, pictures graffiti on a corner of a building. One wall of the corner building is decorated with series of ripped up posters; the other corner […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: The photograph for today’s watercolor experiment looks downright dusty. It is probably the underexposure and low contrast of the print. I am sure that the day I took that photograph, more than 20 years ago, the scene itself was well lit. I wanted to make the watercolor different from the photo. I […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I found another graffit-o-genic photograph in my files. I took it in 1991 during a walk through Coney Island. Coney Island is highly over-populated in the summertime, but nearly abandoned in the winter. I saw the cinderblocked opening to the ‘Reader Adviser’ building. The graffiti was incidental to me, at the time. […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I took the photograph below near the West Village in 1989, as I recall (where 6th Avenue curves around). The little house was so cool. I tried to imagine buying it, if it were indeed for sale. Somehow I think the sign was advertising to sell something else. The bare wall of […]
