sketchbook front to back

29 pages from a 30 page sketchbook I recently used. 

Below the Surface

I was happy to be apart of this show at the 440 Gallery in Brooklyn and to have sold this piece, Former Swamp

install shot

Former Swamp

The City Today

Foggy Morning

Right before it Poured

I have been a compulsive photographer lately.   With spring about to rip I've been loving every wet thing I see.  These composite shots were from today.  They look kind of obvious but both images are composed of 2 different photographs each "stitched" together in photoshop to make the whole composition.  The most alluring thing about photography is that photographs are such a good representation of what we see.  But camera's aren't perfect.  They capture what we see but not how we see.    

Orange Night

Orange Night

Thread, photocopy paper, Gouache on paper

working with a sewing machine

I've been using this great recycled paper and gluing some prints onto them and then working with a sewing machine to frame or draw into them.  I love the way the prints look on recycled paper.

"not sure what to call this one"

"hanging at the old shop"

"from the street"

Goldie

"Goldie" is an tribute painting I made in honor of my old diesel 1983 Mercedes Benz 300td that died last summer.  I bought her beaten up but still running for 1500 dollars off a guy in Brooklyn.  We drove her up into the Catskills, all the way to Ohio and Pittsburgh and back, out to the tip of Long Island and to the Delaware River Gap.  She about broke down on all those trips I seem to recall but we had fun times.  So long Goldie.  Here are a couple process shots of how this painting was made. 

Goldie

original sketch in water color

drawing in on the canvas 

"under painting" 

some more details

the clouds

source material for clouds

the real Goldie and me

Cityscape

This is an impressionist painting on a Samsung tablet from my rooftop in Greenpoint

Guitar painting - work in progress

Starting off my 2nd and last year of grad school by moving into a new studio.  This is the first painting I've done in oil in a while and it's also the first painting in my new studio.  Here are some progress shots.  The final one to follow.