Getting in Shape

Art is like boxing. You have to get in shape and you have to stay in shape. One of the ways artists do this is by drawing. Even if you are an abstract artist, you draw. What drawing does is it makes you look and it makes you see.

I'm taking a portrait drawing class currently with James Cooper at the Educational Alliance. Today's image is of a charcoal self-portrait of the teacher with last week's model. Click through to Cooper's post of the portrait drawing class and see if you can guess which three I drew.

Mother's Day

Normally I hate made up holidays but when I saw this sticker in a cab declaring that New York loves women, well, I couldn't resist. So I send you my teenagers' message as it was told to me, "Happy Day, you Mother!'

Statuesque

New York, changing, mutating, like a giant coral reef, watched by stony Little Orphan Annie eyes.

Confessions of a Colorist

I can't help it. Like a cowbird or a rat I'm drawn to shiny things and color is what makes it shine.

Like a patient etherised upon a table...

I was at the doctor's office. Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting... Lying there with no clothes but with a camera, the inevitable happens. Do you think that the patterns of the lights and window approach modern art a la Sol Lewitt? Minimalist and conceptual? Do you think that the ceiling tile above looks like it was decorated by an obsessive compulsive artist with a push pin who's also mashing in the wings of insects?

For the birds

Kurt has his birds, eagles, hawks, herons et al. I have my pigeon. Slightly beat no less resplendant in blue black feathers and red gnarly feet.

The Devil Made Us Do It

Capturing the wonderful flipside at the Bronx Botanical Gardens. We didn't care how many danced on a pin. When we got back to the studio we found out that we shot 666 pictures ...