They could be spys

but are actually TV talking heads talking about cyber crimes. I'll stay with spys.

IF - unbalance

"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance,
may not be a lie." Susan Sontag

subway platform

Georgina, a new painting

rasta

I enioy drawing people on the subway and buses.

Its a chance to get in a quick sketch with a model who is basically unmoving.

Jay Street Borough Hall

mother and child and reaching

light

IF - blur

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."--Arnold Toynbee

lady on a bus

6 train big guy

culture monger on the 6 train

model from the Soviet Union

Second Avenue bright sun

IF - skinny

"Skinny cooks can't be trusted." -- anonymous

rest

the parade again, oh yeah from a couple of weeks ago!

Apollo

duo

with hanging suit bag

quickies

IF - fast

“The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you

haven't thought of yet.” ~Ann Landers

statuesque

asleep with luggage

Beth and Lem

I loooooove a parade

subway musician

recital at Peters

Hispanic parade

IF - Fro-zen

Hispanic parade

balloon seller Central Park NYC

missing summer

Autumn

alert

Autumn walkers

with debt to Hiroshige (in the farthest way)

the hoop earring

IF - flying

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk
and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

asleep

tattoo lady (tattoo not shown)

passenger

bench sitters

reader

clerks

IF - germs

How about an innoculation against spiritual vanity?

"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.” - John Steinbeck

Central Park

is it coming?

A computer sketch for a new painting

I hope my painting will live up to this sketch. Working with the computer allows
for free stating of the shapes and colors and is easy to change.
We'll see. Tomorrow I start to lay in the first stage.

"My one and only you."

repose

Sketch class repose. Wonderful model. Tracy Chapman touched by Gauguin.

the street

IF - pattern

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on our experience, and our aesthetic
enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."-Alfred North Whitehead

subway heads

reading

asleep on the 3 train

waiting for the train

Suggestion: Sing the above title to this sketch a la the Doors "waiting for the sun."

Jordan

"the conversation"

memories of Umbria

IF - infinte

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite. ~Ellen Terry

MTA employee

I wish I had more room and time to have drawn this MTA

employees fish net stockings. He wore them under his dark blue

pedalpushers. Anyway, he had a nice shirt save for that

MTA thing sewn into the sleeve.

rider

bus sisters

Rome

Belle Harbor bathers

IF - welcome

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience" ~ Emily Dickinson

clang, bam, swoosh, turn another page

riding the snake, underground

1st avenue bus, once again

asleep on the way home

on the bus

couple at the beach

A hot sunny day in early September brings many to
the beach during the final days of summer 2009.

IF - strong

"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong" ~ Mahatma Gandhi

pause between rests

sunny day in NYC

untitled blessings

Traverste, Rome

Umbria

first morning in Umbria

motorcycle, Rome

IF- magnify

“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,
to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting” ~ Aldous Huxley

"Mona Lissa" restaurant, Umbria

Diner, Roma

Umbria

Church facade, Rome

Roman street

Some more from Rome.

green canal, Paris

canal, Paris

green canal, paris

IF - caution

“Action makes more fortune than caution” ~Vauvenargues, Marquis de quotes

the Conversation, Paris

cafe, near Bastile

Frenchman, near Bastile

Giradoux, Paris

at the Seine

Metro

happy to be alive

IF - wrapped

Wrapped and ready to read from the orange book.
What could be better than that on a hot summer's night?

Tuileries

Tuileries

Beth drawing

Roman Street

tea room

moon and l'arc de triomphe

IF - Impatience

“Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.” - Paul Boese

Roman waiter

for Caravaggio

Colloseum

Colosseum area

La Strada

Trevi Fountain

IF - modify

“A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.” ~Mark Twain

Near Spanish Steps, Rome

Beth