Small Sewn Pieces

I've been working in the studio on some new small pieces.  These are all under 25 inches, some as small as 6 or 7 inches.  

Orange Night

Orange Night

Thread, photocopy paper, Gouache on paper

shadow blob

 I am generating new ideas of displaying photographs in the studio.  I like having the wall space to experiment with these compositions.  They become more like a mural when they get scaled up and adding more and more images allows a flexibility in meaning. 

Cityscape

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

Drawing on a Tablet

I have been (re)learning how to paint on my tablet using the Autodesk app.  Here are a few paintings from a recent trip to California.

The California Hills

Jetblue Wild Card Game

Night Painting

A Flower

B 4 BED

On the Phone

Shadows with Pillow

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.  

                                         

Williamsburg Now

a digital collage from this week near one of the many construction sites in Williamsburg Brooklyn 

COMPOSITE IMAGE

I've been working on the computer making some digital collages.  I still haven't gotten it down the way I want to get it but I am getting a bit closer.  Here is an example from my tiny NYC kitchen.

kitchen collage 2017

Figure drawings - from life and from magazine

Here are two examples of different figure drawings the first set are all life-drawings done at the weekly drink and draw at the Bathaus on Starr street in Brooklyn.  The second set are drawings made on top of fashion ads in magazines.  All these drawings were made in May or April of 2016

Magenta Sunset

This is the original watercolor sketch I made.  

Magenta Sunset, 2015

watercolor and chalk pastel on paper

9 x 12 inches

This is my reworking of the image at a larger scale 

Magenta Sunset, 2015

pastel and gouache on printed paper

20 x 27 inches

Color and value

I like the way all of the color in this drawing just melts into value when its filtered black and white.  

an example of a 10 minute drawing in color and black and white.  

Miami Basel for Jack Early

I just finished doing some painting for JACK EARLYs show coming up for MIAMI BASEL.  We worked nonstop for three months in the studio in LIC and the work finally shipped out this past week.  I'm excited to see everything hanging in the booth for FERGUS MCCAFFREY FINE ART in MIAMI!  Here's a sneak peak of some of the paintings.

puzzle pieces

mixing up enamel colors

black and white in progress

we filled up the studio

mixing up oils

detail

doing some projections

in progress

ordering some buttons