Oh, and by the way...
I'M GOING TO ICELAND TOMORROW! I'll be posting pics and such in my travel blog. I'm going for just a week by myself, and I'm sure it'll be a fun adventure!
Currently Listening: M. Ward...Hold Time
Sunday, February 22, 2009
February 22nd, 2009
Last night I went to a figure drawing session at the Gershwin Hotel. Since the poses were on the shorter side, I decided to work in this looser style rather than getting hung up in realistic details. It's a good exercise for me to draw the lines in one go, no sketching and no erasing. And using fun color combinations! Here are my favorite drawings out of the bunch...please click on the picture to see the full view!
Oh, and by the way...
I'M GOING TO ICELAND TOMORROW! I'll be posting pics and such in my travel blog. I'm going for just a week by myself, and I'm sure it'll be a fun adventure!
Currently Listening: M. Ward...Hold Time
Oh, and by the way...
I'M GOING TO ICELAND TOMORROW! I'll be posting pics and such in my travel blog. I'm going for just a week by myself, and I'm sure it'll be a fun adventure!
Currently Listening: M. Ward...Hold Time
Friday, February 20, 2009
February 20th, 2009
Here's some new artwork! Please click on the image to see the full view.
Lately it's been hard getting out of bed in the morning...who knows if it's due to the cold weather or fatigue or just simple winter apathy. Anyway, this drawing is an ode to my bed and that pleasant feeling of being buried under layers of blankets.
Let me explain this altered kick-me sign...you see, getting attention from the opposite sex might not sound like anything to complain about. But when it's unsolicited it takes a different turn. Sure it can be flattering...but it can also make you feel like a prude, insulted, uncomfortable, wondering if you're sending off the wrong signals, etc. Lately such attention planted a terrible doubt into my head...I started questioning if guys only put up with my quirky me-ness because they're hoping to get something else out of it. The message is a bit blunt and harsh, but on my end of things that's how it feels so I wanted to keep it just as direct in drawn form. (The black strip is what I imagine, and the white part is reality.)
Here is the latest piece by Karat! It's in Williamsburg (Brooklyn), on North 6th between Berry and Wythe.
Currently Listening: The Damnwells...One Last Century
Lately it's been hard getting out of bed in the morning...who knows if it's due to the cold weather or fatigue or just simple winter apathy. Anyway, this drawing is an ode to my bed and that pleasant feeling of being buried under layers of blankets.
Let me explain this altered kick-me sign...you see, getting attention from the opposite sex might not sound like anything to complain about. But when it's unsolicited it takes a different turn. Sure it can be flattering...but it can also make you feel like a prude, insulted, uncomfortable, wondering if you're sending off the wrong signals, etc. Lately such attention planted a terrible doubt into my head...I started questioning if guys only put up with my quirky me-ness because they're hoping to get something else out of it. The message is a bit blunt and harsh, but on my end of things that's how it feels so I wanted to keep it just as direct in drawn form. (The black strip is what I imagine, and the white part is reality.)
Here is the latest piece by Karat! It's in Williamsburg (Brooklyn), on North 6th between Berry and Wythe.
Currently Listening: The Damnwells...One Last Century
Monday, February 16, 2009
February 16th, 2009
Here's some lovely news...in three months I will have a show in the Alcove of Ad Hoc Gallery! (May 15-June 14th 2009) The show is called In Transit, and it will feature my recent work that is explores the topic of...well, exploration.
I just remade a couple pieces on a larger scale specifically for this show, so these images here will look familiar! (Click on image to see full view)
KARAT has struck again...here is her latest piece, located on the front of Ad Hoc Gallery in Bushwick. (She posts images on blogspot and flickr)
Currently Reading: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao...Junot Díaz
I just remade a couple pieces on a larger scale specifically for this show, so these images here will look familiar! (Click on image to see full view)
KARAT has struck again...here is her latest piece, located on the front of Ad Hoc Gallery in Bushwick. (She posts images on blogspot and flickr)
Currently Reading: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao...Junot Díaz
Saturday, February 7, 2009
February 8th, 2008
I feel talkative today, so I've written more than usual about these pieces in case you'd like to read about them. Click on the image to see the full view!
This is a topic I've avoided drawing about: my love inferiority complex. Yes, I consider myself a quietly confident person and I do love myself wholeheartedly. But that was only after working hard for years to earn it, like a prize-ribbon. I've discovered that I have a double standard when it comes to other people's love...I see it as a whole other category with higher standards. I know it's totally illogical (as hearts are) but deep down I don't feel that I deserve their love. I know I earned mine fair and square, but it seems silly to assume that someone else could so easily accept me and love me when it took me so long to do so. With friends I'm fine, I'll happily spill my flaws all over them. It's only in romantic situations where I tend to keep others at a safe distance, writing myself off in the ribbon-earning competition. So there, I finally drew about it...
In gmail I accidentally clicked the "oldest" messages tab instead of "older" messages...and I ended up back in my inbox from August 2005. I opened the first conversation out of curiosity and read how I was complaining to Jason about finding painting work in Charlottesville, daydreaming about publishing my art someday, and debating saving up for an ipod before my trip to Prague. Anyway, I read, "My head is just filled to the brim with stuff, with clutter. Maybe I should have a yard sale." I laughed and wondered why I never drew that? So here it is...these are the things that clog my head up.
By 1:30am I could feel my chest tightening, the anxiety and intimidation setting in as the party simply overwhelmed me. (This happens to me sometimes) My gut was screaming: Get. Out. Now. So, I bailed. Walking to the subway, I wouldn't let myself calm down...because when I feel emotions like this I have to let myself fully experience it in order to figure it out. So I forced myself to replay the moments where I started sliding downhill, reminding myself how I should have stayed and all the great people I should be getting to know better, interrogating myself with uncomfortable questions, and basically making myself feel worse. Until...I saw it. This drawing. I can't help the way I'm wired. I sighed, "There it is..." and only then could allow myself to let go of the whole thing. By the time I got to the subway the c-clamp on my chest had totally loosened.
One more thing...
Remember the metal etching I posted in my last blog? Well, it was done by a street artist called Karat. (One might think she's redheaded with a name like that...) In the future I'll definitely share more of them here, but you can also see them on Flickr and Blogspot.
Currently Listening: Muse...Back Holes and Revelations
This is a topic I've avoided drawing about: my love inferiority complex. Yes, I consider myself a quietly confident person and I do love myself wholeheartedly. But that was only after working hard for years to earn it, like a prize-ribbon. I've discovered that I have a double standard when it comes to other people's love...I see it as a whole other category with higher standards. I know it's totally illogical (as hearts are) but deep down I don't feel that I deserve their love. I know I earned mine fair and square, but it seems silly to assume that someone else could so easily accept me and love me when it took me so long to do so. With friends I'm fine, I'll happily spill my flaws all over them. It's only in romantic situations where I tend to keep others at a safe distance, writing myself off in the ribbon-earning competition. So there, I finally drew about it...
In gmail I accidentally clicked the "oldest" messages tab instead of "older" messages...and I ended up back in my inbox from August 2005. I opened the first conversation out of curiosity and read how I was complaining to Jason about finding painting work in Charlottesville, daydreaming about publishing my art someday, and debating saving up for an ipod before my trip to Prague. Anyway, I read, "My head is just filled to the brim with stuff, with clutter. Maybe I should have a yard sale." I laughed and wondered why I never drew that? So here it is...these are the things that clog my head up.
By 1:30am I could feel my chest tightening, the anxiety and intimidation setting in as the party simply overwhelmed me. (This happens to me sometimes) My gut was screaming: Get. Out. Now. So, I bailed. Walking to the subway, I wouldn't let myself calm down...because when I feel emotions like this I have to let myself fully experience it in order to figure it out. So I forced myself to replay the moments where I started sliding downhill, reminding myself how I should have stayed and all the great people I should be getting to know better, interrogating myself with uncomfortable questions, and basically making myself feel worse. Until...I saw it. This drawing. I can't help the way I'm wired. I sighed, "There it is..." and only then could allow myself to let go of the whole thing. By the time I got to the subway the c-clamp on my chest had totally loosened.
One more thing...
Remember the metal etching I posted in my last blog? Well, it was done by a street artist called Karat. (One might think she's redheaded with a name like that...) In the future I'll definitely share more of them here, but you can also see them on Flickr and Blogspot.
Currently Listening: Muse...Back Holes and Revelations
Friday, February 6, 2009
February 6th, 2009
Remember this drawing?
Well, it has now appeared as a brass etching on West 21st Street. It's right around the corner from Honey Space, by the West Side Highway.
Click on this next image to see the full view, the arrow points to it on the right side...
Speaking of art out-and-about...if you find yourself in Union Square you should duck into the new Lululemon and check out the painting work done by me, Amanda, and India! Now this was a fun collaborative painting project...
Currently Listening: Lisa Hannigan...See Saw
Well, it has now appeared as a brass etching on West 21st Street. It's right around the corner from Honey Space, by the West Side Highway.
Click on this next image to see the full view, the arrow points to it on the right side...
Speaking of art out-and-about...if you find yourself in Union Square you should duck into the new Lululemon and check out the painting work done by me, Amanda, and India! Now this was a fun collaborative painting project...
Currently Listening: Lisa Hannigan...See Saw
Sunday, February 1, 2009
February 1st, 2009
Here's the latest crop of new art! Please click on image to see full view.
This drawing is in the same spirit as the emotion gauges in my last posting, but this one is about gut instincts that guide my decisions. My internal compass directions are Somewhere Interesting, Easy Safe Route, Who Knows, and Turn Back Now. The map itself is part of the West Fjords of Iceland...I used it because the coastline is so interesting and it's obscure enough people wouldn't recognize it. Here's a close up of the compass...
This next one was drawn in some dark bar in alphabet city...
I had over an hour to kill so I sketched on bar napkins while drinking some Blue Moons. When I looked at the napkins later, I realized that these six lined up, depicting the bar end to end! What a happy accident! (I did of course had to add some extra lines to link them together better as a single composition) Here are some close ups...
And here's the last painting:
I wrote in an email a couple days ago, "Lately I feel too sedentary, sitting at my desk too much. I think I'm growing moss. Hmmmm...that might make a funny drawing..." This was made with gouache on grey paper.
Currently Listening: Kings of Leon...Only by the Night
This drawing is in the same spirit as the emotion gauges in my last posting, but this one is about gut instincts that guide my decisions. My internal compass directions are Somewhere Interesting, Easy Safe Route, Who Knows, and Turn Back Now. The map itself is part of the West Fjords of Iceland...I used it because the coastline is so interesting and it's obscure enough people wouldn't recognize it. Here's a close up of the compass...
This next one was drawn in some dark bar in alphabet city...
I had over an hour to kill so I sketched on bar napkins while drinking some Blue Moons. When I looked at the napkins later, I realized that these six lined up, depicting the bar end to end! What a happy accident! (I did of course had to add some extra lines to link them together better as a single composition) Here are some close ups...
And here's the last painting:
I wrote in an email a couple days ago, "Lately I feel too sedentary, sitting at my desk too much. I think I'm growing moss. Hmmmm...that might make a funny drawing..." This was made with gouache on grey paper.
Currently Listening: Kings of Leon...Only by the Night
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