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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Bill Evans
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Nassau County Museum of Art
Monday, December 5, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Raina in the studio
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Goya at NCMA
I had the opportunity to visit the Nassau County Museum of Art over the weekend to see the Goya exhibit. Goya's "Los Caprichos" a set of of 80 etchings were on display. I am very familiar with Goya and his work, but I never had the chance to see these etchings in person. They are very delicate, dark and very ominous in certain aspects. Goya made these etchings as a social commentary on Spain, specifically on the monarchy and the clergy. I took notes and did some drawings copying some of his etchings. This is one of the most well known images from the group, and also one of my favorite. This is plate number 43, it's titled: El SueƱo de la Razon Produce Monstruos.
Besides the wonderful Goya etchings, the grounds at the NCMA are beautiful, the property is enormous. The weather allowed for us to walk around and explore a little. The museums used to be the house of W.C. Bryant, and it's a very well designed American Beaux-Arte mansion.
If you're ever in Long Island you should attempt to visit this under-rated museum. They always have interesting exhibitions and you get to see a beautiful garden, and the property is littered with interesting sculptures.
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Besides the wonderful Goya etchings, the grounds at the NCMA are beautiful, the property is enormous. The weather allowed for us to walk around and explore a little. The museums used to be the house of W.C. Bryant, and it's a very well designed American Beaux-Arte mansion.
If you're ever in Long Island you should attempt to visit this under-rated museum. They always have interesting exhibitions and you get to see a beautiful garden, and the property is littered with interesting sculptures.
-R
Monday, November 28, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
Self portrait in blue
Painting for a friend
Two versions if one landscape
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Self portrait
Monday, October 24, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Powdermaker Hall
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Last page of another sketchbook
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Oil painting
It's been over a year since I painted in oils, and I thought it was time to start again. So today I decided to go to school and take advantage of the open studios. I am still far from comfortable with painting in oil, but I plan on doing one of these a week, minimum.
By the way this is from a photo I took in Monteriggioni, Italy.
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By the way this is from a photo I took in Monteriggioni, Italy.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
My finished sketchbooks
I'm still recovering from hurricane Irene. My place was under about 7" of water for a day and a half. The clean up is still in effect. It's slow and tideous, but I'm getting through it.
I did get to organize my sketchbooks and look at some of my old work that I haven't looked at in a while. I love all of these, and I'm glad I keep them. Not only is my artistic progress documented, but also my trips, voyages, and travels. I will continue to draw, and paint as much as possible. It feels good to have these safe and sound.
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Weather change
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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.
-R
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Church in East Rockaway.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Finished sketchbook
Friday, August 19, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
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
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
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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Thursday, August 4, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
My home
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.
-R
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.
-R
200th post !!!
Monday, August 1, 2011
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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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.
-R
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Back in NJ
Friday, July 29, 2011
Clifton in ink
I'm here in Clifton and I found a nice spot to paint a watercolor of. I sat along the pond and I pulled out my tools. Long story short I dropped my favorite mechanical pencil into the water and the stream took it. I decided to ditch the watercolor and do an ink drawing.
It felt good to do some drawing. I'm quite happy with this drawing, but I'm not happy about losing my favorite pencil. Oh well.
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It felt good to do some drawing. I'm quite happy with this drawing, but I'm not happy about losing my favorite pencil. Oh well.
-R