preoccupation.

lady lady..r u narcissistic or somethiing??? i am kidding myself and the universe of course.

ok stop busting my shit art blog. heres what it is for now.

finally a kidspace mural

finally i got to do a kids mural. i now know things i never thought i would about diego and dora, sesame street, thomas etc. the exact color of complexion, ernie and berts oufits..did u knw cinderellas castle was gilded in gold???? yes im in the know now. forever this took. i am too much of a perfectionist but the experience was awesome and i was lucky to be doing this for a cool fam. cant wait for the next.

inspiration @ the nassau museum

on a complete fluke i went to the nassau museum with my bestie museum buddy. lucky we were and i finally saw a basquiat painting in person. that whole experience is freaky. u long to see something great up close, its whole existance preceeds it, it can be nerving honestly as it was with seeing my first van gogh (whom i had a strangely serious crush on through my adolescence..hm.) but in this case it was random. then u stand there, waiting..for something..some feeling..connection or spark of greatness. then i sneak a pic. and look closer. honestly it was over really quick. then we leave and im thinking how could i walk away so quick, the work deserved more of my time rite? i dont even remember the painting except for peering closer to see the little notes scraped in, the "white" and "black" man references, and a halo. weird. its like u see it in books, think all about the artists in school that u make them huge. then u see it and u just wait for magic. no magic. maybe basquiat and i arent soulmates the way me and van gogh were.
anyway, this woman rona pondick's work was freakin amazing. humans morphing into animal..my kind of thing. and botero's sculptures were new to me and completely worth seeing. of course i hadda take a pic of the lady riding her bike on the way out as usual. im aiming at having pics of her against every ny season.

cathartic painting

ive done this before and it worked then. physically painting over or with something that you want to forget, yes it works. it works really well. i also happen to know that burning works too ;)
so with my new discount prussian blue fave, this is the beginning of something better.

kismet & inspiration

so im obsessed with http://www.woostercollective.com/ and a while ago i saw a photo posted on the site of this image. i was loving it for some reason and since the site shows alot of street art from nyc i wondered if id ever see it in person. well i stumbled upon it this weekend and felt that yes..it was kismet that we met. friends and i were waiting for a table in a restaurant across the street and i had to take a pic. the corner of elizabeth and prince. some girl was selling overpriced but awesome earrings right in front. love it. inspiration.

oh lover

oh lover....



so what ive realized is that though i claim to just let the creative juices flow when sketching it seems my mind is working on its own and has a plan that mocks me. well with this particular one ive caught myself. how literal is this? the subconscious really has a frign grip. im kidding myself.

heaven has his head around me

heres my heart. random.

been looking for this drawing for a few days and found it randomly at the house where im painting a mural in with the sketch book i use as a paint palette.

a lapse in painters block

its become a tradition thus far that when a friend or family member gets married my gift is a painting. my sister got married in october. i went giftless. for some reason i blocked halfway through the work. i tried working relentlessly the few days before trying to get things done but without painting for painting sake. i am devoted to keeping these paintings in the style of reason..if that makes any literal sense. usually when i do a piece for someone specific the work takes form on its own and its usually symbolic of the individual or my own ideas on the essense of the individual. well for some reason i blocked on my own sister. whom i love dearly and know from the inside to out. this should have been easy but..no progress came. and so, about 4 months later..i am suddenly working it out and without force. so this is what i am working on now, the procrastination has stopped, along with the covering the canvas with fabric(out of sight, out of guilt radar). gift is not yet ready for giving so here are details (just in case the sister really does read the blog)to prove im working and will eventually fulfill my promise.