A small sketch of a friend’s kitchen wall.
Rotary Phone
November 1, 2009 at 7:11 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, artist, book, calendar, doodle, ink, kitchen, life, line, paper, pen, phone, push pin, rotary, scratch, shadow, skecth, wall
Pauline the Purple Octopus
October 21, 2009 at 6:29 pm (mural)
Tags: art, artist, ashmen, bubbles, cephalopod, earth, eye, haddon, jen, life, mural, new jersey, ocean, octopus, paint, painter, painting, public, purple, seaweed, SOHA, tentacle, township, twp, water, waves
I finally completed the mural I’ve been working on for Haddon Township Beautification Comity. It is part of an ongoing project to make the SOHA (South of Haddon Ave.) section of their town into the arts district. The mural is on a large potter’s planter on the corner of East Collingswood Avenue and the White Horse Pike in West Collingswood, New Jersey. If you google maps to the street view, you will see a lovely before picture.
The mural is of a giant, purple octopus named “Pauline”.
Here are some in progress shots:
Some details:
I’ve always liked the idea of the sky as water, so the bubbles seem planetary to me. One bubble that struck me as particularly homey, I added some green to. If the universe was an ocean, I’m sure creatures like Pauline would influence the stars.
It Follows You
October 16, 2009 at 4:41 pm (ACEO)
Tags: ACEO, art, artist, belt, blue, caught, cheat, etsy, follow, green, hair, hide, hoax, illustration, ink, jen, joke, liar, lie, life, lying, monster, night, run, sky, tree, woman
Is it guilt, or just the idea of getting caught?
Another ACEO.
You’re Not a Very Good Liar. Ink, marker, paper, matte board, and pen. 2.5″x3.5″ (6.4cmx8.9cm).
Unframed: $15.00
Colorful Wake Up
October 9, 2009 at 9:52 pm (ACEO)
Tags: ACEO, art, artist, awoke, caffeine, confused, dream, hair, hazy, illustration, ink, life, paper, pen, purple, sleep, stretch, wake, watercolor, woman, young
The world is hazy when you wake from a day time nap. This ACEO tries to capture those first few momments of “where am I?” and “why am I?”
Bleary Eyed and Bushy Haired. Ink, marker, matte board, pen. 2.5″x3.5″ (6.4cmx8.9cm).
Unframed: $15.00
Perkins Center Show
October 2, 2009 at 9:17 pm (art news)
Tags: 2009, art, coffee shop, event, exhibition, four, gallery, juried, life, moorestown, mounts, new jersey, news, NJ, opening, reception, show, works on paper
This Sunday is the reception of the Perkins Center for the Arts’ 2009 Works on Paper show in Moorestown New Jersey. I have a piece entitled “Four Months in a Coffee Shop, Horizontal” that is to be on display. The reception starts at one PM, and goes until four.
Sketchy Dames
September 28, 2009 at 12:48 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, artist, ashmen, black, broom, bussle, clean, draw, drawn, dress, eyes, girls, hair, headband, ink, jen, life, paper, pen, portrait, pretty, rigid, rough, self, skecth, skecthbook, white, wind, witch, women
I try to keep my sketchbook exclusively to drawings from life, but sometimes pretty women just slip out.
The People on the Bus
September 15, 2009 at 8:40 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, artist, bus, drawing, driver, ink, life, new jersey, paper, pen, people, sketch, sketchbook, striped hat, transit, transportation, travel
I’ve always been fond of public transportation. Thank you, New Jersey Transit, for giving me the opportunity to draw the inside of one of your nice buses.
You Know What They Say
September 8, 2009 at 5:44 pm (watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, artist, bag, carpet, color, flip flop, floor, foot, ink, life, line, nail, New York and Company, paint, painting, paper, pen, purple, quick, sandal, shoe, splot, summer, thong, toes, value, violet, watercolor, yellow ochre
Small feet mean tiny flip flops.
Small Feet. Watercolor and ball point pen on paper. 8″x8″.
Unframed: $40.00
Hospitality
September 7, 2009 at 5:52 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, artist, bedroom, black, curtain, ds, hat, ink, nintendo, paper, pen, poster, remote, rockband, sketch, soda, tc, white, wii, window, wire, xbox360
The room of a new friend.
Classroom
August 30, 2009 at 5:08 pm (pen on paper)
Tags: art, artist, back to, book, charis, classroom, computer, concrete, cross hatch, doodle, draw, interior, learn, life, line, poster, school, skecth, student, substitute, teacher, walls
In celebration of the upcoming new school year, here are a couple of sketches from my substitute teacher days.
