How to paint the city: Wander around a lot. The more aimless, the better. Buy a good camera and always carry it with you. Take many, many photos. When wandering look for the common, the unexciting, the ordinary. Take note of these scenes knowing that you will make them extraordinary. Look for the contrasts: bright…
From the solo show Hans Witschi, Neue Bilder at Stephan Witschi Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland), November 2–December 1, 2013.
I’ve got fourteen hundred words to talk about my experiences drawing The Sons of Liberty. What I will be talking about really though is a year and a half of my life. More specifically, a year and a half of my life in comics. To do that I need to talk a little about my…
His name was Jameson and I kept calling him Jason. His aunt had brought him to work that day, and I met him in one of my multiple trips to the kitchen to get coffee. He was playing with a Gameboy on the floor, while his aunt hustled between her desk phone and her computer….
Frederick Brosen: Recent Watercolors, Hirschl & Adler Galleries (21 East 70th Street New York, NY) November 29, 2012–January 5, 2013.
“The paintings in this series are, like Chopin’s Nocturnes, evocative of the night. They are not illustrations of his musical pieces but rather inspired by the mysteries of nighttime.”
Knox Martin—She, Sam and Adele Golden Gallery (New Berlin, NY), October 6, 2012–April 6, 2013.
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Solo show: Where It All Began, High School of Art & Design (245 East 56 Street), October 15–November 18, 2012.
We may not always remember their names, but we know their creations. For generations, their paintings and drawings have made fantasies and exploits come to life on the pages of books and magazines. Their characters have charmed movie audiences. And their humorous drawings continue to offer wise commentary on the human race. With a few…