evolution of a design

I've been really obsessing over doing my own murals lately.  I worked on these designs for a proposal in my sketchbook over the weekend.  The ideas start out really flat then gain some depth.   My favorites are 4 and 7.  I've only done 1 or 2 murals/signs in spray paint but I think it would be really cool to try to make some of those textures you get with pencil and marker with the spray paint.  

  

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Illustration ideas

Here are a few ideas for an illustration I have been working on for a Bushwick Daily story.  I drew everything out in pencil and then marker, scanned the drawing, and then did these color designs on photoshop.  Not sure which one the editor will choose but I always like to give them a few options.

When We Are Gone

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.  

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

New sewn paper constructions

architecture of the past

so far untitled

untitled

detail right

untitled

detail left

time crystal

time crystal (detail)

time crystal (detail)

Former Swamp

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"

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. 

Landscape painting

 This is my newest oil painting in the studio.  

40 x 30 inches

Photo Construction

This is a composite image of two different photographs that you can see below.

                              

the original 2 photographs

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.  

                                         

Shots of Spring in Brooklyn

The weather has been so nice lately that I've been keeping my camera with me all the time.  Here are a few shots from this past week that I really like.