NYC Pandemic Portrait

 

Pandemic Portrait No. 12

9" x 12" acrylic on paper

Prints in various sizes available here.

Everything Is Still Grim

Pandemic Portrait No. 11

9" x 12" charcoal and ink on paper

Prints in various sizes available here.

NYC Pandemic Portrait

NYC Reluctant Quarantine No. 2

9" x 12" acrylic on paper

Prints in various sizes available here.

NYC Pandemic Portrait

 

Pandemic Portrait No. 10

9" x 12" charcoal and ink on paper

Prints in various sizes available here.

NYC Pandemic Portrait

Pandemic Portrait No. 9

9" x 12" charcoal and ink on paper

Prints in various sizes available here.

 

Pandemic Portrait Series

 

Pandemic Portrait No. 8

9" x 12" charcoal on paper

Prints available in various sizes here.

Pandemic Portrait Series

Pandemic Portrait No. 7

9" x 12" charcoal on paper

Prints in various sizes available here.

Pandemic Portrait Series

Pandemic Portrait No. 6

9" x 12" charcoal on paper

Prints in various sizes available here.

Pandemic Portrait Series

Pandemic Portrait No. 3

9" x 12" Charcoal and ink on paper

Prints in multiple sizes available here.

Pandemic Portrait Series

Pandemic Portrait No. 3

9" x 12" Charcoal on Paper

Prints in multiple sizes available here.

Pandemic Portrait Series

Pandemic Portrait No. 2

9" x 12" charcoal on paper

Prints available in multiple sizes here.

 

Pandemic Portraits

 

Pandemic Portrait No. 1

9" x 12" Charcoal and Graphite on Paper

Prints in multiple sizes available here.

If she took your photo - be afraid, very afraid.

 A favorite photographer, Diane Arbus.

NYC Metro Card Diane Arbus No. 1

2" x 3.5" Oil on Metro Card

Available here.

Very interesting process photo progression here on Instagram.

Reluctant Quarantine - NYC 2020

NYC Reluctant Quarantine No. 1

9" x  12" Acrylic on Paper

Prints in various sizes available here.

Prints available in several flat sizes to matte and frame and also available mounted on a 6"x8" x 1.5" wood panel.

 

Keith Haring

 Another favorite New York artist:

NYC Metro Card Keith Haring No. 1

2' x 3.5" oil on Metro Card

Available here.

See a series of process photos here.

A Pair of Clubs

 

NYC Metro Card CBGB's No. 2 (bottom)

2" x 3.5" Oil on Metro Card
SOLD

NYC Metro Card CBGB's No. 3 (top)

2" x 3.5" Oil on Metro Card

Available here.

See both series of process shots here.

Alice Neel

 A painter's painter - Alice Neel.

NYC Metro Card Alice Neel No.1

2" x 3.5" Oil on Metro Card

SOLD

See process shots here.

The Big Apple In the Time of Covid-19

We're coming out of the darkness, NYC. 

We hope.

NYC Metro Card  Big Apple Covid-19

2" x 3.5" Oil on Metro Card

SOLD

What Quarantine Has Taught Me

One thing I've learned from quarantine is that I make terrible coffee. And that I miss drinking it out of a cardboard coffee cup. With a lid.

 NYC Metro Card Coffee Cup No. 5

2" x 3.5" Oil on Metro Card

Available here.

See process shots here.

NYC In The Time of Covid

 The sun was shining so brightly, but with such dark shadows.

NYC Metro Card Pigeon No. 18

2" x 3.5" oil on Metro Card

Available here.

Process shots here.

Take me out of town, please. Way out. And step on it.

NYC Metro Card Taxi No. 25

2" x 3.5" Oil on Metro Card

Available here.

See process shots here.

Pandemic Portrait - Tearing us apart

Pandemic Portrait No. 4
9" x 12" charcoal and ink on paper

Prints in multiple sizes available here.

Good morning, NYC!

 

NYC Metro Card Medical Mask No. 1

2" x 3.5" Oil on Metro Card

SOLD

Metro Card Coffee Cup No. 4

NYC Metro Card Coffee Cup No. 4

2" x 3.5" Oil on Metro Card

SOLD.

       

   

 

NYC Metro Card Pigeon No. 17

 
Do you think they wonder where we’ve all gone?

NYC Metro Card Pigeon No 17
2” x 3.5” oil on Metro Card  SOLD

More Metro Card paintings available here.

NYC Metro Card Patti Smith No. 1

 

NYC Metro Card Patti Smith No. 1

2" x 3.5" Oil on Metro Card  

Available for purchase here.

This little painting put me through the wringer - lots of starts and stops and changes. Here we go:

NYC Metro Card Taxi No. 23

NYC Metro Card No. 23
2" x 3.5" oil on Metro Card
Available for purchase here.

NYC Metro Card No. 23
2" x 3.5" oil on Metro Card
Available for purchase here.

Starting something, gotta be starting something

Inspired by the wonderful artist Nicolas Uribe. as seen here on Instagram and here on his  newly launched series on Youtube, Our Painted Lives, I decided to tackle a portrait using his some of his techniques. The result will be an oil painting on paper.

Following along with his first of 3 steps for a portrait I began with pencil drawing, using Faber Castelli, on a page of my sketchbook - Canson Multimedia 7"x 10." The sketch could probably have used some more detail but I was impatient to get to the paint. 

The next step consists of first preparing the paper by adding layers of clear acrylic binder to the surface of the paper.  I added  layers on the drawing side, letting each layer dry for at least an hour before adding the next layer, and then one more layer on the reverse. This immediately added more depth to the drawing as the pencil pigment spread slightly.

Next step is to create an underpainting