Lilly Mugshot

I love to obsess over [drawn] lines. How it's not just a 'line' but how each side has a surface and that there's a variable difference between those to surfaces - they have a relationship to each other. I went to grad school for printmaking but really I only wanted to learn more about drawing. I wanted to know stuff that I never understood, like when, where and why to make lines thicker and thinner. I'm still learning about it and not unlike skateboarding - learning a new trick opens more doors to learning more tricks - more tools to keep in my toolbox. I still love looking through my toolbox and thinking about what to use on a drawing and maybe (hopefully?) know why to use that tool. But often it's just me taking a tool from the toolbox and using it because it seems fun and seeing what happens and inevitably learning something cool from it. Click for more like these.

Old Sketchbook Sunday

I can't stand sitting around doing nothing so when our family went to the beach I decided to bring a shitty old notebook and broken-down brush pen along with me. I don't want to get sand in my current sketchbook and I thought it'd be nice to do quick sketched where nothing was too precious. I need practice anyway. Now it seems it's the perfect thing to carry with me anywhere I go since I'd much rather pass the time sketching than searching Twitter hoping to see that impeachment proceedings have begun.

Filthy Rose along Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn

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"Begonia Baloney" 2017, 52" x 70" pen & ink and watercolor on paper

"Begonia Baloney" 2017, 52" x 70" pen & ink and watercolor on paper

  1. buy flowers from place down the street
  2. draw flowers in sketchbook
  3. Do it some more
  4. draw larger version on 22" x 30" paper and watercolor it
  5. unroll a 80" x 55" sheet of watercolor paper from a roll
  6. staple it to the wall and soak it with water
  7. let it dry so it stretches out and will now lie flat
  8. sketch flowers on the huge sheet of paper in pencil
  9. draw over pencil lines in ink
  10. erase pencil lines
  11. draw thicker ink lines over previously inked lines
  12. watercolor once ink is nice and dry
  13. wonder why I just spent so much time and money doing that
  14. remind myself that it's way cool looking
  15. sell for a shit-ton of dollars
  16. wake up from lovely dream about selling art (see 15)
  17. repeat

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