Back at school for the Fall

The backside of Jefferson Hall.



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Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene came and went, but not without leaving a trace of her presence. My entire place is flooded with about 7-10 inches of water. It's safe to say that posting regularly isn't going to happen.
I'll put up any new work, but in all honesty all of my time will probably dedicated to schoolwork and completely removing all my furniture, cleaning and re-organizing...slowly. Perhaps I'll post some older work from sketchbooks that I salvaged, perhaps not. We'll see, stay tuned.

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Church in East Rockaway.

I was at my brother's house all day, and when I was driving back home I noticed this church.


I believe it was presbyterian. Anyway I enjoyed the architecture so I painted it.

Please excuse the mediocre photo.


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Condos in Hewlett, NY

Condominiums across the street from the Starbucks in Hewlett, NY.


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One more for Cancun

One more from the beautiful beaches of Cancun, Mexico.



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Finished sketchbook

Here is the last watercolor painting in my latest (now finished) sketchbook.


This book is filled with plen-air paintings done in several neighborhoods in New Jersey and New York.
I've learned a lot from these pieces and I must admit that this is one of my favorite books I've completed so far.

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Another church in Bloomfield

Nice church in Bloomfield NJ.


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Too hot to paint

It was incredibly hot when I painted this. I was on the beach about 15 minutes away from my resort. There was no shade so I tried to execute as quickly as possible. As soon as I was finished or felt like I couldn't take the heat anymore, I basically dropped all my painting supplies in the sand and ran into the water. Both the painting and the cool ocean water were satisfying.


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Painting in Cancun

Here's an action shot of Justin and I painting in Mexico. It was no easy task painting in that sun.

I'll post some work very soon.

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Back from Cancun

I'm back from Cancun.



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Off to Mexico

I'm heading to Newark airport right now, catching a flight to Cancun, Mexico. I'm going to attempt to post regularly, but I'm not sure about the Internet service. So I'll do as much artwork as possible and hopefully I'll post as much as possible. Thank you !

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Rosedale NY

Masonry in Rosedale.



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A little bit more Siena

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Siena walls

I miss Siena. Specially the streets and windows and doors such as these:



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My home

It's way past overdue. This is a painting of my house ! I had a lot of fun trying to do the shadows coming off the trees onto the house.



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New Blog design and new banner.

Since I am no longer in Italy I thought it was only right to switch the banner on my blog. My good friend, and graphic designer extraordinaire Joe designed the awesome banner I was using while in Italy. I decided to ask him to please come up with something new and snazzy for the blog and he created the banner you see now.

I decided that since I was going to use a new banner I might as well redo the design of the blog in general. So I took the new banner Joe made for me and I tried my best to make a nice blog design to match. I'm very happy with the new layout and appearance, I hope you enjoy it as well.

Do yourself a favor and checkout Joe's blog as soon as possible ! : There's a mouse in my room.


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200th post !!!

I finally arrived at my 200th post!!


Here is a watercolor painting of Frese Hall at Queens College.

I hope you all enjoy the work and I post here, I aim to post as much as possible.

Thanks !

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A portrait by a friend.

A photographer friend of mine asked me to pose for some photos while we were hanging out in my studio. He wanted to do some lighting studies and I just happened to be the subject for some test shots.

He took a bunch of photos and here's one of them. This is in my home studio . I do artwork here and I also study here. Anyway Check out Eric's work, he's a very motivated young photographer.

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