Showing posts with label nyc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nyc. Show all posts
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Friday, January 13, 2017
Postcards from the Edge
Hi peeps! I piece of my art will be included in Visual AIDS' Postcards from the Edge event this weekend, beginning tonight, Jan. 13th. If you're in or around NYC, stop by and buy some art for a great cause!
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Bobby, Distracted
The other day I saw a photo of Bobby Flay looking so distracted/perturbed/impatient, it cracked me up. I actually felt sorry for him. It was like he was at yet another contractual event amongst the masses who didn't even know what a caper was, and he just wanted to be ANYWHERE but there. His Irish ire was irked!
I wanted to capture and exaggerate that look immediately. I searched around for a piece of paper which turned out to be an old, Zingerman's food catalog. Perfect! This one is all oil, except for the lettering in marker.
Bobby, when he first appeared on the Food Network, had a bit of an arrogant attitude, and why shouldn't he? He's good at what he does, he's had to make it in NYC, and he's in that rarefied stratosphere of chefs whose crossed over to mass appeal. He's much more approachable, kind, and humorous now (and has been for years), but I think a bit of the old Bobby slipped out here. (-;
I wanted to capture and exaggerate that look immediately. I searched around for a piece of paper which turned out to be an old, Zingerman's food catalog. Perfect! This one is all oil, except for the lettering in marker.
Bobby, when he first appeared on the Food Network, had a bit of an arrogant attitude, and why shouldn't he? He's good at what he does, he's had to make it in NYC, and he's in that rarefied stratosphere of chefs whose crossed over to mass appeal. He's much more approachable, kind, and humorous now (and has been for years), but I think a bit of the old Bobby slipped out here. (-;
"If only I could be anywhere but here. Like in my backyard barbecuing."
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Apple Doodle aka Taking a Bite Out of the Big Apple
Here's a little apple doodle I did today...always trying to draw, you know?
It really is a drawing of the apple I was eating, but also, two of my friends, John and Maryanne, just got back from a road trip to NYC (thus the Big Apple reference). Stay tuned, because before the month is out, I will tell you about this brush with fame John has been having with his painted pumpkins, and their appearance on both Good Morning America and tomorrow's, The Chew.
Pretty coolio.
It really is a drawing of the apple I was eating, but also, two of my friends, John and Maryanne, just got back from a road trip to NYC (thus the Big Apple reference). Stay tuned, because before the month is out, I will tell you about this brush with fame John has been having with his painted pumpkins, and their appearance on both Good Morning America and tomorrow's, The Chew.
Pretty coolio.
Pen & colored pencils
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Jack Kerouac - The Haunted Life
I've been reading Jack Kerouac's The Haunted Life. Did you know that Kerouac thought that he had possibly lost the manuscript in a taxicab? Turns out that was not quite the case.
According to the Todd Tietchen in the book's introduction,
Well, I don't know about you, but I also believe in poignant romance. Here is my imaginings of Kerouac pounding the streets the NYC, desperately wondering which cab speeding by him carried the missing pages of his potential masterpiece. Perhaps the sheets were flying out the window, taking on a further life of mystery, swirling through the air and absorbing more life than what already was contained on the page.
P.S. I just thought of something! Have any of you seen 2000's Wonder Boys with Michael Douglas and Robert Downey, Jr. and originally written by Michael Chabon in 1995? (One of my top ten favorite movies by the way.) There is a scene at the end of the movie where innumerable pages dance there way off into nowhere as well. I'll have to watch that DVD for the 358th time.
February 7, 2015. HEY peeps, here's an update, and it comes courtesy of Buzz Bain, a FB friend, from Oregon. Check out the original blog post at www.potrzebie.blogspot.com and check out the video of Kerouac's artwork from the New York Public Library's Kerouac collection.
According to the Todd Tietchen in the book's introduction,
"The lost manuscript resurfaced as an entry in the Sotheby's auction catalog in June 2002, fifty-eight years after its disappearance. The manuscript had been willed to the seller by his longtime domestic partner, who claimed to have discovered it decades earlier in the closet of a Columbia University dorm room. ...Kerouac had spent October 1944 living in Allen Ginsberg's dorm room at Columbia..."Tietchen continues:
"While the thought of his manuscript making the rounds of Manhattan's streets in the backseat of a yellow cab probably struck Kerouac as both poignant and romantic, the truth of the matter seems to be that he had left the manuscript in Ginsberg's room after accepting a berth on the merchant vessel Robert Treat Paine (only to jump ship in Virginia and head back to New York). Why he subsequently lost track of the manuscript is impossible to say, though, true to its title, The Haunted Life eventually rematerialized in public sight like an apparition whose business in the world had been cut unexpectedly short."Isn't that last sentence fabulous...rematerialized in public sight? Let's luxuriate in the beauty of words.
Well, I don't know about you, but I also believe in poignant romance. Here is my imaginings of Kerouac pounding the streets the NYC, desperately wondering which cab speeding by him carried the missing pages of his potential masterpiece. Perhaps the sheets were flying out the window, taking on a further life of mystery, swirling through the air and absorbing more life than what already was contained on the page.
P.S. I just thought of something! Have any of you seen 2000's Wonder Boys with Michael Douglas and Robert Downey, Jr. and originally written by Michael Chabon in 1995? (One of my top ten favorite movies by the way.) There is a scene at the end of the movie where innumerable pages dance there way off into nowhere as well. I'll have to watch that DVD for the 358th time.
February 7, 2015. HEY peeps, here's an update, and it comes courtesy of Buzz Bain, a FB friend, from Oregon. Check out the original blog post at www.potrzebie.blogspot.com and check out the video of Kerouac's artwork from the New York Public Library's Kerouac collection.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Postcards From The Edge - NYC- Visual AIDS-SOLD
Last December my friends, Lanie and John, encouraged me to send a postcard into NYC's "Postcards From The Edge," a benefit for the organization, Visual AIDS* and hosted by the Luhring Augustine Gallery, 531 W. 24th Street, NYC. A sneak preview takes place on Friday, January 30th, with the actual benefit Saturday, January 31st and Sunday, February 1st. You can bid online right now on some of the super famous participating artists, like Ai WeiWei, at Paddle 8.
I had been drinking a lot of blueberry smoothies at the time, and so I made this fellow, who found himself turning into a blueberry smoothie after imbibing just as many as I had.
I'm so proud to be one of the participants. For more information and a list of all artists, click here.
*From their website: Visual Aids is an "organization that produces AIDS-focused contemporary art programs and provide supplies and assistance to artists living with HIV/AIDS, many who are unable to continue producing work without such support. All Postcards From the Edge proceeds support the programs of Visual AIDS."
UPDATE: 2/7/15 Here's a link to some of the pics from the 2015 NYC Visual Aids event: 2015 Visual Aids
AND Seriously, I really think my postcard is at the bottom (in the bottom row--1st one visible in the row) in this Steven Rosen pic-:
I had been drinking a lot of blueberry smoothies at the time, and so I made this fellow, who found himself turning into a blueberry smoothie after imbibing just as many as I had.
Too Many Blueberry Smoothies
I'm so proud to be one of the participants. For more information and a list of all artists, click here.
*From their website: Visual Aids is an "organization that produces AIDS-focused contemporary art programs and provide supplies and assistance to artists living with HIV/AIDS, many who are unable to continue producing work without such support. All Postcards From the Edge proceeds support the programs of Visual AIDS."
UPDATE: 2/7/15 Here's a link to some of the pics from the 2015 NYC Visual Aids event: 2015 Visual Aids
AND Seriously, I really think my postcard is at the bottom (in the bottom row--1st one visible in the row) in this Steven Rosen pic-:
Monday, September 2, 2013
Day 251. Exena Blew That Solar System
Exena had a dream, and she was going to follow it. Her ambition was too big to be restricted by her current solar system. She wanted to take over the entire universe.
She was impossibly creative and made unbelievably beautiful jewelry with the intergalactic matter floating around her. Certain that no one was or could duplicate her creations, Exena was determined to take over NYC. She would blow Vogue headquarters away; Anna Wintour herself would be wearing her choker necklaces after seeing the one beautifully displayed on her own swan-like, alien neck. Perhaps she would create an alliance with J.Crew, the way Dana Lorenz of Fenton Fallon had done a few years back. It would be a launchpad for her own line. The possibilities were endless, and she, a cosmic princess, would pursue them all.
It's hard to see straight on, but there's meteoric shards on the top and both sides. Hopefully these pics show that a little bit better.
How did this start? Well, I once again have to thank the paint spills on my desk.
See those white little spots? That's from me eating "Turkish Delight" with hazelnuts covered with powdered sugar. Mmm. So yummy--it's just sugar, hazelnuts, cornstarch, and citric acid. Doesn't sound like much, but it's addictive. Anyway, they made it into the painting.
She was impossibly creative and made unbelievably beautiful jewelry with the intergalactic matter floating around her. Certain that no one was or could duplicate her creations, Exena was determined to take over NYC. She would blow Vogue headquarters away; Anna Wintour herself would be wearing her choker necklaces after seeing the one beautifully displayed on her own swan-like, alien neck. Perhaps she would create an alliance with J.Crew, the way Dana Lorenz of Fenton Fallon had done a few years back. It would be a launchpad for her own line. The possibilities were endless, and she, a cosmic princess, would pursue them all.
It's hard to see straight on, but there's meteoric shards on the top and both sides. Hopefully these pics show that a little bit better.
How did this start? Well, I once again have to thank the paint spills on my desk.
See those white little spots? That's from me eating "Turkish Delight" with hazelnuts covered with powdered sugar. Mmm. So yummy--it's just sugar, hazelnuts, cornstarch, and citric acid. Doesn't sound like much, but it's addictive. Anyway, they made it into the painting.
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