the first three are drawings from today's portrait class; the fourth is a charcoal drawing from last week, with Lyle Gerts' over drawing that he did as a demo for another of my drawings....I like the way it looks taped on top of the unrelated drawing....

Based on the Betty Edwards' exercise using a grid...thanks to my teacher Brana Duronivc I was able to develop more concentration than I ever had although this drawing could probably use more work. Thanks also to my teacher Minerva Durham whose knowledge of anatomy is truly astonishing. AND she gave me the clear plastic for the picture plane.

Hurricane Sandy inspired comic per exercise from "Mastering Comics"

Avocado hoarder

love the one in the baby food jar, never saw multiple shoots before.

I planted the oyskeklaplte arovos, and one of them is sending out new growth!

Bobby's Art Class

Teaching kids that a blue line along the top of the page will no longer do to indicate sky.  There is a horizon, and a lot of sky to be filled in.  Learning how to use brushes, watercolor, and acrylic. Blending colors. Notice the "esrog tree" looks like an esrog itself....

spontaneous scribbles

 Here's a cross hatch drawing and now I see what's missing: shadows, big shadows from overhead clouds; I see that from the second shot that I took, with shadow falling on the paper. But of course I still like it.
And here's a scribbled drawing from a photo I took of myself in the bathroom mirror.  With a nice big flower sticker.  I like the lines trying to find themselves with resulting multiple outlines of the face.

here 's a drawing that I did on the SVA brochure for the MA teacher's program (for which I am eminently not qualified since I don't have an undergraduate degree in studio arts. Damn. I drew it on the subway on the way home from the animation screening at SVA and then colored it with pencils and markers.

My iCarly webcame doesn't take sharp pictures. Oh well.