Draw

Everyday, if I do nothing else, I draw.  Besides the ink wash drawings (this one is another 8x10 Yupo of a view on Classon Avenue in Brooklyn), right now I'm also doing a series of quick drawings in pencil (this one from one of my walks).  Drawing is crucial to good painting, and even more crucial to discovering new ideas.  It's hard to think up new ideas, by which I don't mean content so much as methods.  It's less difficult to draw up new ideas.

Another Yupo

Another Yupo drawing, an 8x10 pen, brush, and ink wash with touches of watercolor, depicting the Gowanus Canal from the Carroll Street bridge.  There's a boat there that sometimes is afloat, and sometimes is partially submerged.  Yupo seems a good surface for watery subjects.

Yupo Experiment

I've been experimenting.  The above is an 8x10 drawing with pen, brush, ink and wash, and faint watercolor touches on Yupo paper, which is a plastic paper.  The subject is what I call the cartoon house on Carroll Street in Brooklyn.

The Pond at Field Farm

This is an 8x10 oil on Yupo that I did on site today.  Alas, I didn't select a swashbuckling landscape for my first effort on Yupo.  Yupo is a synthetic paper that takes oil or watercolor quite well and easily.  I will do something a bit bolder for my next try.  I got my tip on Yupo from the great painter Randall Tipton, who uses Yupo like a master.