Pause cigarette

"This job sucks."

"What are you doing for the holiday?"

"I don't know…"

"Heh, get wasted, probs."

…

"Cool."

Bateau à vapeur

after Manet
11-17-14a
ink, acrylic, watercolor

my sketch after a painting by Édouard Manet in Chicago (below)

I like this painting for it's directness and carefree, crude rendering of the water, smoke and boats. Yet there is also a fabulous sense of space, and with the arrangement of the boats, a sense of a brief passage of time.

"Steamboat Leaving Boulogne"
Édouard Manet, 1864
AIC collection page

Commuting

Not all elves live at the North Pole…

BE SCARED!

What is it?
11-7-14

It could be:

EBOLA?

DUST MITES?

DARK MATTER?

STATISTICS?

Crystal Cities: October 2014

A few Crystal City paintings from my sketchbook

October 2014.

Two boats
collage, mixed media

Tolling the Bell
collage, mixed media

colored pencil, ink

ink, watercolor

mixed media