may sketching

ah the rain. we didnt have april showers
so may seems intent upon playing catch up.


missed a life drawing session but have
showed up as often as weather allowed
so herewith some of my own catch up...

punk: chaos to couture

the current costume show at the metropolitan museum is
punk: chaos to couture. i wasn’t all that interested in going
but hadn't been all that interested in the alexander mcqueen show
two years (!!) ago and found it thrilling.

the punk show features, among other amusements, a recreation of the bathroom of punk club cbgb.

the rooms are dark, illuminated mainly by videos, throbbing with the sounds of 70s punk icons like patti smith, the ramones, blondie, the sex pistols.

there are all the requisite punk tropes: the torn, the sharp, the pasted together. garbage bags, staples, newsprint, and, inevitably, safety pins.

abraham lincoln is alleged to have said "for people who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like." works for me.

this is the one image i made at the show that i love.

sun again

first saturday session
and i'm happy to get back to
my rocks and pleased as punch
that they survived Sandy and
that they still inspire me.

the sun came out

and sketching commenced.
daffodils.
(my life drawing sketches are not up to snuff yet)

it snowed

this was friday
in central park.
all gone
by sunday
in the unaccustomed warmth.

back in the twenties today

birds in the art of japan

at the metropolitan museum
until july 28. birds. japanese art.
it is to swoon.

 

(the black and white ones above are my hipstamatic iphone images)
and i defy you to see the world outside in the same way
after seeing the world through japanese eyes...

torn and found

am i a fan of augustus vincent tack
because some of his work
reminds me of found collage
or is it the other way around?

(the first, second, ninth and tenth are tack
the others are found collage, spring street station)

central park