Nutcracker in oil

Small 8"x10" oil sketch of a wooden nutcracker.



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Westbury Gardens

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Sketch of a jamb figure

I visit St. John the Divine in upper Manhattan whenever I can. I managed to remember my sketchbook on my latest visit and I made this sketch of a jamb figure.





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St. George in Flushing, New York

Sketch of a beautiful Gothic Revival church in Flushing, Queens. Constructed in the mid 19th century it's one of the most impressive structures in Flushing.



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Renzo Piano's Whitney Museum of American Art building

Drawn from across the street on 11th Ave. Very fun building to draw.








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American architecture

A drawing from earlier today. A neo-classical style building with a nice pediment and portico. There was also an impressive Palladian dome reminiscent of Jefferson's Monticello.






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Nice building, downtown Manhattan

All pens filled with Noodler's Black, except the Staedtler liner. I thought this was a beautiful doorway. It's down on West 4th not too far from the Blue Note Jazz Lounge.


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Low Memorial Library

This is the famous Low Memorial Library at Columbia University. It was designed in a classical revival (Roman) style by Charles McKim of the famed firm of McKim, Mead and White. The library was started in 1894 and was completed a few years later. In the front it has a beautiful Bonze sculpture of Alma Mater by Daniel Chester French.



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Boat in Mexico

I managed to paint a little while on vacation in Cancun. I was away with my whole family so finding time to stray away was difficult because of my nieves and nephews, but in the end I did a few paintings.

This is a nice scene I bumped into walking around the beach.





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Oil City, Oceanside

I managed this in about an hour and twenty minutes. I wish I could have worked on it a little longer, but my friend and I were attacked by mosquitos, so we packed up and ran for the hills. I'm still happy with the outcome.

Perhaps it was serendipity that made the mosquitos attacked us before I pushed the painting too far.



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St. Thomas the Apostle.

This is a quick sketch of a church I like in West Hempstead, NY.




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Saint Demetrios in Merrick

Sketching in Merrick. Found this beautiful Greek Orthodox Church.



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Grisaille portrait

9"x12" oil sketch of a friend. Painting in Grisaille. I like where this painting is right now. I might continue another day, or not. I'm not sure, but I am happy with the way it looks as is.




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St. Thomas the Apostle

This is the church I was painting in the previous post.




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Painting in West Hempstead

This is the church of St. Thomas the Apostle in West Hempstead. I did an 8"x10" plein air oil painting of the church from a nice shady spot across the street. I'll post the painting tomorrow.




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Painting a gothic revival door

This is a door I painted from life at a cathedral in Garden City. The left is my drawing done with Van Dyk Brown diluted with turpenoid. The right is about an hour and fifteen minutes into the painting.



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Plein air in Garden City

I have been painting on canvas boards, but I found a bunch of Masonite panels in my studio. This sketch is on Masonite prepared with gesso. I don't know if I like it more than a canvas panel, but I do think it allows me to paint a little looser, which is a good thing for me.

I found this nice building near the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, Long Island.



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An oil portrait of Teddy

My dog just got a haircut and he looked so dapper that I had to do a small oil portrait of him. This is a photo of him inspecting the painting. He likes it.





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Small portrait

Small 8"x8" watercolor and gouache portrait on some nice Arches paper.




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An old abandoned truck in New Hampshire

I have been painting oils lately accidentally ignoring watercolors. Watercolors are my first love and I am now trying to go back to them. I want to keep painting oils plein air so I now have been painting watercolors in the studio.

I did a plein air oil painting of this same subject when I was in New Hampshire and I was very happy with it. I also took a Polaroid photo of the same scene, so I decided to use the photo and the oil painting as reference.

I am happy with this painting and I'm happy to be back to watercolors.




"Abandoned Truck, NH" 14x10

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Dairy Barn

Found this dilapidated Dairy Barn somewhere between Merrick and Seaford.



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Some more plein air oil painting in Valley Stream

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Plein air oil sketch

Painted this little sketch in Valley Stream. It's a 45 minute oil sketch. It was too cold to paint for longer, believe it or not. I am trying to paint in oils more, hopefully I can manage one oil painting a day.



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Painting in Valley Stream

A plein air watercolor sketch in Valley Stream, NY.


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Terra cotta sculpture at the Met

A drawing from my visit to the Met yesterday. It's a French 19th century sculpture.


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Hellenistic sculpture and Tudor Ranger

A drawing from the Met's new Pergamon exhibit amongst some stuff I carried with me that day (my planner, field notes book and my watch wallet with a watch a friend wanted to take a look at.)




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Showing some work

I'll be showing a few pieces at Flushing Town Hall.



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Grace Church. Massapequa, Long Island

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Working on a book of churches.

Organizing drawings for a small book on churches from my travel sketchbooks. Here's is a shot of a few books spread out. More info to come!!




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Carpeaux's Ugolino and his sons

I haven't visited the Met in a while and I was overdue for a drawing session at the museum. I chose to draw a detail of one of my favorite sculptures, Carpeaux's Ugolino and His Sons. I love this figure and I've never and tried to draw it, but the museum was slowly emptying out so I had space to draw comfortably.




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A nice building in Oceanside, NY

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Church in RVC!

More churches!! As an architectural historian I have to admit, I love church architecture, regardless of religious faction or location. I enjoy private and other public buildings as well, but churches are always so interesting!

This one is in Rockville Centre, in what I would call an eclectic style.




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Church in Hempstead, NY

The weather is getting nicer here in NY. It's now warm enough to draw outside. I managed this over the weekend and I'll start carrying my watercolors with me soon.

This is a church in Hempstead, not far from Hofstra University.




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Small church in Laconia, New Hampshire

I took a nice trip to New Hampshire. I did a few plein air oil paintings, I did a few drawings and I also shot some film. This is a small church in downtown Laconia.



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Ella

Here's a small ink drawing of my friend's bulldog, "Ella."



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Snowfall in Valley Stream

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Small church in Oceanside, NY

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First Reform Church

A beautiful Romanesque revival building in Jamaica, Queens.


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New year, new drawing. Finally.

A drawing from a recent visit to the Met. St. John the Baptist by Auguste Rodin (1888). Done with a Lamy 2000 ef filled with Platinum carbon black ink.



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