Recent Sketches
When the pandemic hit, I found myself missing the experience of drawing from life. As an alternative, I began exploring what I began to refer to as Virtual Sketching. These images were all created either via a live video modeling session, or occasionally from photos. 2020/2021.
Continue scrolling to see highlights of my various sketchbooks.
People
New York
Random
Presented here are a collection of mostly wacky, offbeat doodles that I thought were fun, but didn’t quite fit anywhere else.
Enjoy!
Disney
Shortly after graduating from Parsons School of Design, I continued my education, studying under my former teacher, the late great David Passalacqua.
Dave’s class would involve marathon drawing sessions from sunrise to sunset, day after day over the course of three and a half weeks. Week one would focus at various locations around Manhattan. Week two would relocate us down to Disney World in Orlando. Finally, we would regroup back in New York to finish off the sessions.
Collected here are a random assortment of the highlights from the 1996 and 1997 EPCOT sessions.
Charcoal
Painting Marathon
On Saturday, October 2, 2010, I was fortunate enough to participate in Painting Marathon: The One Hundred, a painting workshop offered by the School of Visual Arts.
This workshop asked participants to bring in 120 pieces of prepared ground of identical size. An instructor would guide the flow over the next ten hours, using word association, props and live models to create a world of visual stimulation. The artist would have a minimal timeframe in which to generate an artwork inspired by what they saw. By the end of the day, most students would end up with anywhere between 70-100 pieces of newly created artwork.
Some paintings worked out better than others. The most interesting aspect of the course was taking the lesser-successful pieces and starting an entirely new piece directly on top of it. The mixture of two totally unrelated paintings often proved to be a successful result and salvaged pieces that might otherwise have been thrown out.
Presented here is a selection of works produced for the one single workshop. SVA offers this workshop during their spring and fall Continuing Ed course listings, and I highly recommend it for artists of all still levels.
