another beautiful sky

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.

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.    

On the Street - composite photo

On the Street

I have been making a lot of these composite photos.  Taking a photo of the street and another photo of the buildings or sky and (imperfectly) stitching them together.  I like the imperfect quality that comes from  shifting perspectives and tilting the camera.  Then I've been erasing the advertisements and branding in Photoshop in order just to see what an image would look like without the persistent advertising that's all over the city.  

Now it's a Bank

COMPOSITE COLLAGE

a composite collage from my living room at home

advertisement intervention

a photo with the advertisements edited out - from my phone archive 

3 beach paintings to warm you up

We took a short trip to Turks and Caicos and I made these digital paintings by the ocean.  So many shades of water

2 COMPOSITE COLLAGES

Grand Canyon 1 

Grand Canyon 2 

Kittatinny Mountain

digital painting - Nov 2017

I painted this from memory after a drive through Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving day to see my family in Pittsburgh. 

Homeostatis Lab

CHECK OUT this cool digital art gallery called Homeostasis lab
 My video FDJKs is featured

screenshot from FDJKs

Photo Construction

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

                              

the original 2 photographs

August Sander Glitch

Glitching an August Sander portrait in Photoshop

                                        

Turkish Mousetrap Salesman

A Photoshop edit of the same image

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

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

A FEW DIGITAL EDITS OF A PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON