On our recent trip to Paris, I was a tourist and not a street artist. No frivolous free time. We always stay in the 8th district. There’s some great architecture there that I admire. So, I clicked a few photos to do some drawings when I returned home. I love the triangular shaped buildings that are on the street corners. They never cease to delight me.
Mab Graves
Vampire Squirrel. This is for Mab Graves Drawlloween 2023. Squirrels love cosplay.
Stuff
This is a sketchbook drawing that took me a long time to do. I picked a few items off the ground in the Berkshires and drew them when it was raining outside. A couple of weeks later I sketched a few in Maine. Two weeks later, I was back in the Berkshires, so I did several more. That’s how I roll. At some point, I put my pens down and my hands in the air and called it done.
Oz Tree
This was quite an unusual looking tree I found in the mountains of Massachusetts. I jumped at the chance to sketch her. The tree never knew what hit it. By the time the tree realized I was drawing it, I had begun to hightail it out of there. The tree chased me just like a scene straight out of “The Wizard Of Oz.” A garden gnome lawn ornament was resting next to it, so I tossed him into the illustration too.
Berkshires
I sat in my car and drew this through the window in the parking lot of a bowling alley. Sometimes the outside elements are too much for me so I sheltered in the front seat. Plus, I was close to a McDonalds, so that I could take a pee every 17 minutes.
King Salmon
Alaska king salmon are in crisis with their population at a historic low. They are smaller in size then they’ve ever been and some argue the only way to save the species is to stop catching and eating them all together. The volume of kings caught in Alaska and sold to processors has been declining for 40 straight years. In 2021, the numbers were down 80%. For many king salmon populations, humans may not be able to do enough now to reverse the consequences of decisions made decades ago.
On another note, 70 percent of the salmon that people eat is farmed atlantic salmon.
Tree
Right now I’m in The Berkshires in Massachusetts, up in the mountains. This is a tree I drew in Brooklyn a few weeks ago and haven’t posted yet. I’m eyeballing a new tree to draw, seeing as I’m surrounded by forests as far as the eye can see. I’ll pick a winner today.
My friend, Snow handed me a sun-bleached lobster claw he found on the shore in Maine. I drew it. Then my friend Pate found a crab claw. I found a muscle shell and my page of drawings began to take shape. I’d glued the Bee-bim bop and Japanese lettering to the sketchbook page a few weeks earlier, not knowing what I would be drawing on that page. Then it was just a matter of drawing whatever got in my way after that and presto.
Hockney and kane
I recently posed for the legendary painter, David Hockney. He told me that I'm very good at sitting still. The painting will now hang in the men’s room at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City.
Snow House
We recently spent time in Little Deer island, Maine. Staying at our friend Michael Snow’s family home, I decided to draw it. I listened to the sounds of cormorants and loons as I sketched on the rocks by the shore of the cove. A river Otto popped out of the rocks inches from my feet. We scared the hell out of each other. I moved closer to the house to do this drawing so I didn’t scare any more animals. I can assure you the mosquitos weren’t afraid of me. My first urban sketch in a long time.
Barbie World Cup
I've been loving the women's World Cup soccer. Very exciting matches. Can't wait to see the final.
RIPeewee
Around the corner fudge is made. a very old painting I did of the legend.
Last Drawing
This is another drawing from my jaunts to the Museum of Natural History, the Asia section. I think I may have officially drawn every object in the museum. At this point, I can either begin all over again or end my 20 year run of drawing New York’s Natural History joint. WANTED; a new muse.
