Above is a detail from the painting I am working on. The dimensions are 12" square. Oil on canvas.




Above is a detail from a painting currently under suspicion of being completed. 12" square. Oil on canvas.

The third in this series is sketched out, and will also be 12" square. It is from a photograph taken in Vietnam during the war.

I went to the Armory show yesterday at pier 90 with my friend Jessica Delfino. We rode our bikes together up the west side bike path from the lower east side. Enjoyed the lovely spring weather and the river vistas along the way. Both of us being broke, we devised (rather, i devised) a method for entering the international art exhibit that happens only once a year for free.
Getting into museums in NYC for free is easy. Simply approach audience members leaving the museum and politely greet them and ask if you can have their button, armband or ticket stub.
Most other humans will quickly ascertain what your intentions are and either freak out and run away screaming or will smile and hand it over.
I have only witnessed the latter.
So, after locking our bikes up I quickly approached the crowd of people about to cross the henry hudson hwy and swiftly acquired one armband. Jessica asked for the second one. They were those fibrous plastic kind and the sticky part was designed to fall apart when ripped off to discourage exactly the kind of activity we were engaged in. However, with a small piece of duct tape kindly provided by a street artist vender dude that was quickly remedied and we breezed past the guards no problemo.
Wandering around the show, I took many photos of the artwork and installations from all over the world. It was really great to take it all in. Total diversity in style and content.
We went out a door later that led out to the side of the pier. I took these two pictures out there:





There is more but I just downloaded an episode of "weeds" from i tunes and i want to watch it.

The moon is beautiful and the tempurature is going down. Rumour has it that there will be snow.

I am trying to get in the habit of blogging on here but i keep forgetting about it. So check back in a few days and I will post some more photos.