I know I’ve been gone for too long, but I have a nice backlog of pictures I’ll be posting as soon as I can.
Say, did you know that my rock band, Pirate Satellite, has a show tomorrow? It’d be wonderful if you could be there! It’s at a great club, and our friends Lungs of a Giant are playing, too! Here’s the details:
Pirate Satellite with Lungs of a Giant
Thursday, July 19, 2007. 8pm. $7.
@ Magnetic Field Cocktail Lounge
97 Atlantic Avenue, between Henry and Hicks, Brooklyn, NY
Meanwhile, here’s another sketch I did during down time on my Coop shift (like this one and this one):
I love your NYC sketches and hope you are planning to share many more. One of my personal challenges is mixing watercolors for the many colors of brick in the city. I’d love to know how you deal with this (email is fine).
— Shirley 07/18/2007 #
Thanks, Shirley! Yes, there are a lot of colors of brick and stone in this city. I vacillate between trying to capture “true” representations of colors and the saner (and more traditionally watercolorist) route of utilizing a more limited palette that just feels right.
This particular drawing is either/both of those approaches, and I didn’t work very hard on painting it (only one or two layers, and crappy paper anyway).
There’s a bit of shading, but essentially only five colors: the blue sky, the reddish brick, the ochre stucco, the warm orangey brownstone, and a cooler darker brown for the decorative woodwork on the outer buildings.
— Jason Das 07/18/2007 #