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.

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

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

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

Finishing a new series of paintings

February 2016

gouache on paper

18 x 24 inches

recent figure drawings

Here are a few 10 and 20 minute figure drawings from last weeks figure drawing session at the Bathaus Coworking space in Bushwick.  All of these drawings are on paper that is 9 x 12 inches.