Self portrait, using two mirrors…

This is my first self portrait using two mirrors… It has that typical artist-self-portrait intensity, focusing intently. Its not often that I see myself in semi-profile!

 

Sketching in Cafe Sant Ambroeus, UES

Looking out the Window with Boo in her lap

Moments in NY Cafe’s

On the East River, LIC

New York Sketch Book, Winter 2011

This is Gilbert, a friend and coffee-buddy of mine who I met years at the Grey Dog Cafe in the Village. He read a book by Robert Bresson in Cafe Cafe in Soho, as I drew him in about 1/2 hr. I like capturing people in their quiet moments – which can be quite internally active, engaging in ordinary things – views that we take for granted, but that are rich in content.

Raphael and Emma/Sketch Sessions

On Tuesday evenings, I gather with a handful of professional NY artists in the East Village. We take turns posing for each other for 20-25 minutes at a time. I look forward to these sessions, as a time to hone my drawing skills, the foundation for my portrait paintings.

Curled up in a Ball

This is Boo… my girlfriend’s Chihuahua. Its working under pressure when I have no idea when the dog is going to move… Perhaps that uncertainty gives it a freshness… ?

The Pink Pony-LES/Sweet Leaf-LIC

I love the small sketch on tan paper. In the East Village, I sat on a bar stool, looking towards the windows where two women sat... In the two drawings on the right, it was a challenge to capture these faces that were still for a moment and then became animated in conversations… Thankfully, they weren’t doing all the talking and became still again, long enough to capture more….

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Sweet Leaf Cafe/focused….

Someone up close and the other at a distance… One on his laptop, the other reading a book. Mood and energy in the one on the right…