Took a nice vacation this summer, and spent a lot of time with family and friends on Long Island. So while it's been wonderful, I haven't been taking advantage of all the summer happenings in Manhattan lately... There's always next year.
In the meantime/out of boredom: A few images from a Painting 1 class I took during my senior year at Hunter. Sorry about the quality (they've yet to be photographed with anything better than a Blackberry!)
This is based on a song by the brilliant Patti Smith: Birdland. And below are some details. Sadly, the color is quite as vivid as it is in person, although its a bit closer in the first detail. And the rectangular bar in the sky on the image above is a shadow. Had a lot of fun with this.
And the celebrated "Rats on Bicycles Painting" painting!! Looks fun: but drove me crazy. The background was painted... and then gessoed over... and then painted again... and then once more. Yeah. Crazy like that. I love it though. Also inspired by a song, although loosely enough that you'd never guess it: Rats and Rats and Rats for Candy by The Blood Brothers. They were originally going to be menacing rats, but instead they turned out to be perfectly civil gentlemen. Detail (plus flash glare) below.
Oh yes. That is a tiny rat monocle.
