Williamsburg Now

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

Progress shots from the studio

Progress shots of a painting I'm working on in the studio this weekend.

This painting is about 18 x 30 inches on gessoed cardboard 

Beauitful weather beautiful city

with all the mural painting i'm doing recently i've only had time to take photos and draw in my sketchbook.  i'll post some sketches soon but here are some more 35mm shots from a disposable camera

Fillmore place, Williamsburg

Frank Gehry building

Gary

lower manhattan

marcine

schoolyard

all photos (c) Thomas Hemmerick 2014 35mm disposable camera

nitesky

nitesky

ink and acrylic on paper

13 x 17 

2014

can't wait for the summer

S. 5th street Williamsburg NY

2013 35mm

UPCOMING "MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE" SHOW

COME CHECK THIS OUT THURSDAY NIGHT.  I AM HONORED TO BE APART OF THIS SHOW THATS GOING ON IN WILLIAMSBURG WITH A BUNCH OF OTHER GREAT ARTISTS.  

MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE

nature prints

salvia, 2013, xerox and acrylic 

rose, 2013, xerox and acrylic

backyard, 2013, xerox and acrylic

sunset, 2013, xerox and acrylic

new transfers FINISHED

The two smaller panels I've been working on are finished.  If you'd like to see some of the process check out my previous post to see the panels before I transferred the images onto them.

The image below was made using the same process but with a traditional photograph as the source material 

all images 8 x 11 inches  

acrylic and xerox on wood panel 2013

shots from South Carolina

these are all 35mm shots from a vacation I took recently in South Carolina with my family.  I had a great time painting on the beach, looking for alligators, and stumbling into all kinds of migratory birds.

PHOTO XEROX

THESE ARE THREE EXAMPLES OF PHOTOGRAPHS I HAVE ENLARGED WITH A LARGE SCALE XEROX.  THEY ARE EACH 20 X 30 INCHES.

THINKING, SANTA BARBARA

SEATTLE

J TRAIN BROOKLYN

WATERCOLOR

Inspired by Nathan Fowlkes, whose work you can check out by searching for Land Sketch, I started doing some landscape paintings around NYC in the summer of 2012.  Most of these are 9x12 and painted from observation.  At work I am so used to copying artwork that is given to me I wanted to work on painting what I was looking at without the aid of a sketch and without being able to check my values/colors.  This was a really good exercise and I learned a lot about composition. 

Empire State Building, from the east river ferry dock in Greenpoint

Central Park, looking west from the reservoir

detail, stay loose have fun be persistent

Greenpoint watertower with moon

a really loose sketch from Central park pond

Central Park.  I'm so used to painting on the street with people watching I usually don't get nervous.  For some reason I was though with this one.  People would come up behind and look over my shoulder.  When I was almost finished a little girl came up and exclaimed, "Look he's painting, and it ACTUALLY looks like that!" haha thanks

another one from Central Park, mid-afternoon blazing sun

this one was actually painted from a photograph I took while I was working in St. Louis.