My father loved music, as I mentioned yesterday. He instilled this in my younger brother Dave, and me. Dave plays piano for a living. These days, he is getting back to his roots, playing for himself. Practicing, practicing, practicing. The study below originated as a pen and ink study. I have a pen nib that […]
I am enthralled with the black lines that Paul Klee uses in many of his compositions. I understand that he used them in his later work to guide the viewers’ eyes around the the artwork. Ensconced in these maze-like traces are iconic figures. I tried emulating this style is some of my previous experiments (Study […]
I like Paul Klee‘s artwork so much that I follow him on twitter. I tried emulating his piece, Woman in Peasant Dress, which was twittered earlier today. Of course, there is no comparison between the two compositions. What I had in mind was to break up the space with wide ink lines, which Klee uses […]
I love working on this thick linen paper. I always start out by etching into it with a blade. I want to see how the colors bleed into the grooves. Today’s composition is a combination of watercolor and ink. I had no plan when I started this except for a few curved lines. The bright […]
Today’s experiment: I had a bit of success in blending the 12 yellow pigments from my paint box, I mentioned yesterday. I began by drawing the curve of the metaphoric time line I developed in my Time’s Arrows post. At the narrow end of the curve, I began with lemon yellow (a yellow with a […]
What do I want to express? I have been exploring the idea of portraying the concept of time visually. This came from my project of digitizing 25 years of my 35mm film archive, particularly the hundreds of rolls of film from my Brother Michael project. Mike is my older brother who is autistic, low functioning […]
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 […]
New York is a city of signs and symbols… and restaurants. To attract customers, the enterprising restauranteur needs to distinguish his or her restaurant by a symbol to attract the walk in trade and of course, by the food. What is the essence of good eating? Taste? Aroma? The person responsible for the display at Trattoria […]
When I lived in New York, the city was revamping Bryant Park, the space behind the main New York Public Library building on 5th Avenue near 42nd street. The park was fenced off for a long time. The scene I recorded below in the photograph was probably early morning on a wintry Sunday. When newsstands are […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Lately I have been applying latex masking fluid (frisket) to my watercolor paper as a first step in painting my abstract studies. I add all my pigments (inks and watercolor washes) after the frisket has cured. This leaves paper-white traces on the finished study, after I remove the mask. Today I wanted to […]
