One of the greatest television roles ever created was Omar Little on The Wire. I did this drawing of him years ago after binge watching. A performance of a lifetime made to look effortless by Mr. Williams.
Seeing Is Believing
Yet another drawing I did while in Maine. I spotted a little red guest house across the street from where we stayed. You could say I juiced it up using my imagination but that wouldn’t be the whole story. It’s mostly because I can’t see well anymore. So all kinds of craziness end up in my illustrations due to visual impairment.
Flowers
There should not be any florist shops in Maine because all you have to do is step outside and pick any kind There should not be any florist shops in Maine because all you have to do is step outside and pick any kind of bouquet you desire. I made this drawing by combining flowers in 2 different vases around the house. First I drew this vase and only the flowers in it I preferred. Then I swapped out that vase and drew the few flowers I dug in that second vase. I selected the ones I felt made my sketch groovy. That makes me a groovy selector.
Lake Ossipee
My wife and I just returned from a trip to Maine visiting our groovy friends, Michael Snow and Pate Eng. Of course, a lake house is always involved whenever we go there. I drew this to show off in front of a few seven year old girls. It seemed to work. One never knows though. Seven year olds love to tell you how great your drawing is coming out, then they swim out of earshot and joke to each other about how the old guy stinks when you get close to him and his teeth seem to be slightly green. That would explain all the laughter.
Maine
Sometimes I open my sketchbook and think, “how the hell did this get in here?” Then I remember, “oh yeah, I did this.”
Time Warp
My instagram posts are not really synced up with my life. This drawing is from my trip to Massachucetts but I’ve been back in Brooklyn for two weeks now. Next I’m headed to Boston and then onto Maine. You won’t see those drawings for weeks though. It’s an artisitic time warp.
Day Lilly
A Day Lilly.
Pink Hydrangea
I’m a clueless botanical illustrator. There is not a flower on earth I can name. I stroll around the garden and say stuff like, “maybe I’ll draw that thing.” This one was so big and heavy that it was bent over and resting on the ground. I didn’t think it would last another day so I clipped it and stuck in a homemade vase. I found out it was a hydrangea days after I drew it. Made me feel a little smarter. Because it has rained more than any time in history this summer, there were mosquitoes everywhere. They were no match for my zen buddhist, meditating, concentrating, empty-headed focus while I drew.
Circumstance
Circumstance. That is the reason I drew all these flowers. My wife and I were buried so deep in the woods of Massachusetts that getting to civilization was a bit too much work. The flowers were the easiest visual in reach. Getting lazier in my old age.
Pine Cone
Pine cones are good with a scoop of vegan ice cream.
Day Lilly
We’ve been hanging out in the Berkshires which is the mountains of Massachucetts. Our place is remote and deep in the woods. I drew a few of the flowers living the the wilderness. First up, a single day lily.
Bees
I recently attended a seminar on bees. Funny enough, the best thing we can do for bees is to stop mowing our lawns. Stop the weeding too and no weed killer on anything. This will insure them plenty of salad bars. Unfortunately I don’t have any lawns at my many properties but trust me, I wouldn’t mow an inch.
Nature During Pandemic
I recently watched a beautiful documentary called, The Year Earth Changed. It’s narrated by David Attenborough, of course. The film explores how well nature did during the pandemic because humans stopped driving cars, flying, boating, polluting, and creating so much sound and noise. The Ganges oxygen level rose by 80%. In parts of India, the Himalaya mountains were visible for the first time in four decades because of the disappearance of smog. In Alaska, humpback whales found the underwater environment 25 times quieter as cruise ships were cancelled and marine traffic was absent. In this silence, scientists found that humpbacks were talking to each other more often and across farther distances. Nature has now told us to tread lighter.
