Sketchbook watercoloring
I got to visit the Brooklyn Botanic Garden yesterday and while there wasn't that much in bloom - there was still some cool stuff to see (and smell). Either this (below) wasn't labeled correctly or I wasn't aligning the label near the correct plant, but this Caricature plant (Graptophyllum pictum) was delicious.
"There's a Bee in Mrs. Robb's Bonnet!"
Toborcchid
Shitheal Roger Ailes
I drew this disgusting shitheel for Michael Hambouz's annual artist collaboration, "Faces of Death." From his web site:
An annual, non-profitting collaborative artist project, paying tribute to fallen heroes and icons.
The Faces of Death idea was originally realized in 1997 in my friend Milton Carter and his pals' music 'zine Gank, and continued in 2002 on a t-shirt printed in Milton's kitchen. Each annual edition of F.O.D. pays homage to cultural icons that have passed during the calendar year, with each drawing rendered by a different wonderfully talented friend/friend-of-friends, in styles ranging from painterly to primitive.
In 2013, Milton passed the F.O.D. torch on to me. As I would prefer not to profit in the name of lives passed, this project is non-profitting. All sales made help to recoup cost of materials and production.
Toborchid pencil
Studio in ACTION!
Sunflower
Hydrangea circle
Custom Made Botanical Watercolor
Purple and Blue Party Flower
Flowerball 2
Study for a larger ball
Bee Pollen Humper
6 new ink studies
Background pattern sketches
3 more shaved bees
Dahlia, inked (also, a shaved bee)
Prospect Park doodles
When first I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn in 1998 I was struck by the differences in park lamps between those in Central Park (Manhattan) and those in Prospect Park (Brooklyn). The Manhattan lamps were ornate with beautiful details - really gorgeous. The lamps in Prospect Park were cheap, shitty imitations of the nicer Manhattan lamps. Today, 19 years later, I saw (and drew both here) many of the shitty Prospect Park lamps were replaced with the nicer (though not quite as “genuine” looking as the ones in Central Park, if my memory is correct) with better versions. Notice how on the shitty lamps the metal strips on the sides (swipe to the image to the left) don’t even bother to reach the bottom metal ring holding the glass in place. It used to infuriate me, but I’m glad there are nicer lamps in Brooklyn now - so - happy days.
TODAY!
DATES:
Thursday, October 19, 6 - 10 pm
Friday, October 20, 6 - 9 pm
Saturday, October 21, 1 - 5 pm
LOCATION:
EFA Center
323 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018
EFA OPEN STUDIOS 2017 is an annual event of the EFA Studio Program that invites the public to come explore and interact with our member artists in the intimate setting of their studios. It is an opportunity to see the most recent works by artists at the site of their origin and to gain meaningful insight into their process of creation. The EFA Studio Program is a vibrant and diverse community of over 70 artists working in a wide range of media and artistic sensibilities. All are professional artists with an established studio practice and recognized career. Rarely can curators, collectors, dealers, artists, and art lovers see so many internationally recognized artists working under one roof in Midtown Manhattan.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS (Floors 3 - 10): Samira Abbassy, Rashwan Abdelbaki, Clytie Alexander, Richard Barnes, Keren Benbenisty, Wafaa Bilal, Rhona Bitner, Martha Burgess, Mattia Casalegno, Jordan Casteel, Patty Cateura, Noa Charuvi, Cecile Chong, Elizabeth Colomba, Vicky Colombet, Sarah Dineen, Michael Eade, Sally Egbert, Jonathan Ehrenberg, Sean Fader, Cui Fei, Del Geist, Alex Gingrow, Lauren Gohara, Mahmoud Hamadani, Richard Hart, Valerie Hegarty, Pablo Helguera, Amy Hill, Catherine Howe, Akira Ikezoe, Edgar Jerins, Richard Jochum, Tamiko Kawata, Yongjae Kim, Noah Klersfeld, Ming-Jer Kuo, Greg Kwiatek, Sarah Leahy, Eun Young (Lydia) Lee, Patricia Leighton, JC Lenochan, Dana Levy, Patte Loper, Katinka Mann, Jeanette May, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Morgan O’Hara, Sener Özmen, Thomas Pihl, Shahpour Pouyan, Simonette Quamina, Armita Raafat, Maria Rapicavoli, Javier Romero, Alex Schweder, Karina Skvirsky, Howard Smith, Suzanne Song, Xin Song, Steed Taylor, Dannielle Tegeder, Scott Teplin, Yuken Teruya, Johanna Tiedtke, Denise Treizman, Liselot van der Heijden, Carlos Vega, Marjorie Welish, Bryan Whitney, Saya Woolfalk.