A nice bout of weather saw me in with all my gear at the meer today for a few hours. Continuing to drill into the copse of trees on the southern shore and work on complexity and abstraction. i’m using a combination of wash and ink work. And in two…
A quick cold bounce down into the 40s again today made for a short trip to the Meer. Sitting in the cold is not welcoming to wet media, so i took a step back to brushpen and marker. The thing about complicated subject matter, like landscape is that there is…
Thought I’d share with you some of the process involved in creating an identity mark for Marathon Social, a start up social media public relations firm. The client wanted a bold, clean and corporate mark that had an active tone to it. Below is a look…
A return to plein air sketching with the moderate weather at the park. Spent a couple of hours at Central Park on Wednesday patching together a two page panorama of the southern shore. Rough work and super rusty. But back in the saddle. Can’t wait to find out where…
Not NOT drawing. But drawing Nothing. Well ok, Not NOTHING. But bramble, thicket and backgrounds. Detritus. These are things that you cheat on in painting. That most people cheat on in painting. The Ruskin-ites would skoff at the lack of clarity and certitude. But every other painter I enjoy would…
I’ve had the privilege of knowing Lennart Anderson for nearly 20 years now. Anderson is often described as a painter’s painter. He’s a realist painter working in classical motifs and engaged in a dialogue that recalls many of the masters: Degas, Corot, and Ingres. I’ve helped coordinate exhibitions for Lennart…
Welcome to the end of the line. This week I released the final installment in a 10-year long mixtape project: Par Avian 101 – Return to Sender. I close the books on Par Avian with this massive 2 1/2 hour mix that took 2 1/2 years to make. My masterpiece,…
Quick check in with some drawings from last week… Went at the Meer with an actual brush and some Dr. Martin’s Black Star ink. Both of these pieces were on a toothy cold-press card. Both images are of the Copse on the Southern shore. In the second one you can…
Moving into my sophomore year in plein air, I came across a loose drawing I did last year of the expanse along the southern shore from the Bad Tree to the pairing on the southern shore. Which I affectionately, but probably incorrectly, describe as the Copse. It’s an area viewed…
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