Apple and Pumpkin picking

I was out in Freehold NJ apple and pumpkin picking with my lady, her family and one of my best friends and fellow sketchers. We met a very nice woman name Marianne, who was a photographer and she took a couple of photos of us while we were in the middle of doing some sketching on site. She was nice enough to email us the photos the next day and they were awesome. Thank you Marianne !

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Iced Tea in a box.

Daniel Smith watercolors in a Moleskine watercolor sketchbook.

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Valley Stream train station

20 minute drawing of the Valley Stream train station. Sharpie pen in my Cachet earthbound sketchbook.

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Portrait by Vic

This is a drawing of me done by my friend Victor. We met up in the studios at school to draw and catch up. I was having a shitty day and my drawings reflected that so I decided to sit and let Victor do a portrait of me. I think it's a really well executed charcoal drawing and I'm happy to say that I am the proud owner of it. I am definitely going to frame it and hang it up. Thanks Vic !

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Hell's Gate from Astoria park

I can't believe it's been so long since my last post, I feel like I'm slacking a little. I'll try to keep up with daily posts. School is getting hectic but I don't want to use that as an excuse.

I did this watercolor at Astoria park in Queens, NY and it took me about twenty minutes. I feel like I'm slowly figuring out my new watercolor set and I have been using it a lot. I've filled a small sketchbook with color charts, mixing charts and opacity tests.

I've done several drawings of the Hell's Gate, but never a fully planned out piece, next time I'm over in Astoria I'll take an hour or two to make a nice watercolor painting. This was done with Daniel Smith watercolors in an Arches 140 lb sketchbook.

ps: I apologize for the crappy picture, I usually just take photos with my iPhone because I'm too lazy to scan my drawings.

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Oil painting at QC studios

I met up with my good friend Victor today at the studios at school to do some oil painting. I know I should be painting way more, but it's easier said than done.

Victor is a much more experienced painter so he helped me out a lot. This was done in about two and a half hours from a reference photo. I'm going to attempt to do one a week, so I'll definitely make a post about them that way I can see some sort of progression.

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Moly X: Portrait 5

I guess I never mentioned it, but I am involved in an international Moleskine Exchange. It's a portrait group and I've been involved in this nice project since December 2009. The other people on the exchange are all great artists and they're from all over and have all different types of backgrounds. So the whole point is to do portraits of the owner of the book you receive and also a self portrait in every book. It's a round robin kinda thing and it's nice to see other people's work in person and see the books get more and more portraits in them.

I haven't received or worked on a book for this project in a while, but I recently got one in the mail. This book belongs to Son and he lives in germany, I just started his book but I usually post the first stages of a book on the Moly X: Portrait 5 blog, so I'll do a cross post also posting it here. This is done in india ink and alcohol markers. More to come as I make progress, don't forget to check out the Moly X: Portrait 5 blog, it chronicles our whole history.

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