Hand Tools: animation experiment

Here is a recent experiment in animated drawings using After Effects:

one of a kind when you are mine

kissing, 4"x6", ink on index card

disconnected, 7"x7", ink on watercolor paper

6"x6", ink on watercolor paper

vertebrae in the park, 3"x5", ink and colored pencil on index card

from the sketchbook, colored pencil

office monsters

Here are some recent drawings from the studio. All are made with a combination of graphite, colored pencil and ink on 4"x6" index cards.

Tracing Utopia: My Street, My Office

Photos below of the recent drawing on the left and right side walls of my office space on Broadway in Manhattan. The dissolving, almost melting images represent the street in Brooklyn where I live. The outside of my neighborhood comes inside, inviting and invading into the sterile yellow office space. Images of urban life such as piles of trash awaiting pick up, street lights, safety cones are broken into liquid like shapes and lines. The automobile and motorcycle, both strong symbols of masculinity and achievement are shown equally as broken.

Post Dauphin Open Studios

Another Day at the Office

18th floor looking out onto NYC street. Times Square in the distance, a position of power, a birds-eye view of the hustle. The street is like a canyon with sirens and shouts and footsteps. I stare out at it all day long from within my yellow-walled computer palace, daydreaming.

painting in progress, 4'x3' oil on canvas

"Power Positions" paintings, 10"x 10", oil on wood panels

"Together in the Daylight (an office romance)", 12"x12", oil on wood panel

Art is a Gift Part 2: Pieces of Home

This project began a water color painting of my family home in California, which was then cut into 6 8"x10" pieces. Each piece was framed and wrapped in generic brown paper. Each of my four siblings, my parents, and myself opened a gift to reveal a piece to reside in each of our homes which spread from California, Colorado, to Alabama and New York City.

text portion:

You hold a piece of our collected memories

A sectioned piece of our unity.

The home is a place for dreams, daydreams, a symbol of future hope.

This childhood home holds many memories for each of us

But still it is a place that makes us connected,

That brings us together from different places and lives.

Hold onto this portion of the painting, hang it in your home,

And always know that each of us holds a unique piece

And without it the picture would not be whole.

cutting in studio

framed, all together