I’ve got some new prints for sale in my Etsy Store. These prints are really beautiful, made quite fancily with Epson Ultrachrome professional archival inks on acid-free 100% cotton rag Somerset Velvet paper. In quite a few cases (including all four of these new ones) the prints are actually superior objects to the originals (which are often bound into a sketchbook or on mangled scraps of paper).
Click on any picture to be taken to its catalog page.
My artwork is up at the Manhattan location of ‘sNice until September 30th. ‘sNice is located at 45 Eighth Avenue, at the confluence of Jane, Horatio, and West 4th Street (illustrated below). Big thanks to Mike for asking my to show my stuff there. I really hope everyone can go see some of my work in person!
Rashied Ali, a great musician and one of the most emotionally intelligent drummers I ever heard, died last night. I did this paper stencil screen print based on a photo of him a few years ago (though the text was different in the original; I photoshopped it today to say his name).
Update: WKCR is playing his music in for several days straight… no idea how long exactly.
Update 2: Irena has produced a vector version if anyone wants to make their own stencil or lasercut (see comments). Please respect my Creative Commons License when reproducing my work from this site.
I got tired of cross-posting my stuff on multiple blogs (and I suspect some of my readers weren’t crazy about it either). As a result, you Gas Water Nothing readers have missed out on my more recent contributions to Urban Sketchers.
Of course all the other contributors to Urban Sketchers do wonderful work, but if you’re in a hurry, there’s a page with just my stuff , or you can subscribe to this feed for just my posts.
We’ll see how my efforts to minimize redundancy play out. Meanwhile, here’s a digest of the stuff I posted to Urban Sketchers in the last month and a half:
Park Slope Food Coop June Annual and General Meeting
As well as being a swell place to buy groceries, the Park Slope Food Coop provides stretches of obligatory downtime ideal for sketching. Usually I capture the street view while doing my shift as a shopping cart retrieval specialist, but tonight I attended a meeting with several hundred fellow coop members.
This was two meetings, Annual and General, rolled in to one. They occurred in alternating segments, each being adjourned so the other could be resume, until it was time to switch again. Of course, exactly the same people and equipment were involved in each, but Robert’s Rules of Order and the laws governing the governance of corporations demand a certain silliness at times.
Central Park South, Tuesday Evening, Late July
Prospect Park Sunset
Keyspan Park Storm Clouds
We tried to go to a baseball game—the Coney Island Cyclones versus the Staten Island Yankees—but it got rained out. (Thanks so much to my pal Rebecca for getting us free tickets to a luxury box!). I had to majorly rush on this once it became apparent I wouldn’t be sitting there for hours.
Sands Street Bike Lane in Action
I’m somewhat giddy that the Sands Street Bike Path (leading to the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan Bridge here in new York City) finally opened. The path was announced over 4 years ago, but the City took forever getting around to building it. It seems to have only taken a few months to build once they finally started.
The smooth, divided, lane is wonderful in many ways. It’s a real pleasure to ride, and a significant step towards New York’s becoming a truly bike-friendly city. But it’s also frustratingly condescending. Unless you’re riding between the bridge and the Navy Yard (which is hardly a common end-destination for cyclists), the new lane takes you far out of your way and adds a hill that wouldn’t otherwise be part of your route.
Also, the crossing from the Sands Street path to the bridge path is convoluted and confusing. I get angry when I think how much better it would be if they just built a ramp from the end of the path to where I was sitting when I sketched this.
I’m saving my real celebration for when we get divided lanes on Flatbush and Atlantic! Harumph.
I’m a longtime fan of this fountain. Fans of fountains, public art, and municipal history should definitely take the time to read about the Bailey and its colorful predecessors.
