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