Moleskine 5.0 Part 2

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My contribution is the remainder of my Moleskine 5.0



Composition sketches for another Dover project, due out at the end of the year.



Did another stint at the NYC Veterans Affairs hospital in February, a volunteer event organized by Joan Chiverton. Here's the sticker to prove it.


Sketches for spots for a Cover for a McGraw-Hill business book and another Dover project.



Short sketches form the Society of Illustrators.


More sketches for yet another Dover project. This one, unfortunately, was not aproved by the powers that be.




Quick landscape sketches from a short trip to Brattleboro, VT in April.







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Moleskine 5.0 Part 1

Happy New Year everyone.

It's been a pretty busy year so far. Lots of deadlines keeping me from posting more regularly. They're also keeping me from regularly sketching in my Moleskine. I started this in May 2008. I'm about two thirds of the way through it. There a a lot of work-related sketching in this one. And lots of messes.






The page on the right is my girl-friend Rebecca Silvers taking over a page (and then showing much concern after I told this would make it online one day).



Some short sketches form the Society of Illustrators. If you look close enough you can pick out arms, hands and faces.


These are some sketches for a project for Dover about the Greek and Roman Gods (I'll be posting some examples in the near future).






On the right a compsition sketch for another Dover project.


More messes from the Society of Illustrators.




Goofing off at an art retreat in October 2008.




The sketch on the Right was done from reference stolen from Greg Manchess while at the art retreat.




A bad drawing of Rebecca (in which she looks like Sandra Bernhardt) which is SO not the case.



I went to Chicago on Halloween weekend to check out my best friend Lana Crooks' Solo Show. There the sticker from the Field Museum to prove it.


This sticker was my pass to draw at the NYC Veterans Affairs hospital. This was a volunteer event organized by Joan Chiverton in mid December. A few illustrators from the Society got together and drew the patients at the VA Hospital to try to ease their pain. We gave them the portraits afterward, but I managed to take a few shots and will post them in the near future as well. This was a great event and I may get another chance to participate next week.





Also, Today I posted my 600th Nude on Nude of the Day.



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Moleskine 2007: A Year in Review

I've been thinking about this post for a while now. I started up this particular Moleskine in late 2006 as a larger version of my pocket Moleskines. After some subway and museum sketching it turned more into an idea/sketch book. I started working out sketches for current and future illustrations and gallery paintings. In one case, the sketches turned into finished work. The majority of the work here was created in 2007 and the book is largely filled up. After looking over it in early 2008 I decided to take a page from Baron Storey and a few local friends and work back into and on top of the pages. This will be an experiment to see what kind of ideas may come from embellishing, adding onto, and in some cases, destroying what's already on the page.



Composition sketches of John White Alexander paintings from the MET's "Americans in Paris" Show (Dec. 2006)



Sketches for an illustration of the Egyptian Goddess of War, Sekhmet.

detail:



A sketch for a project with Matt Black's theater company, Marrow.


Sketches for potential illustrations.

detail:


More sketches for the Marrow project.










A very unflattering portrait of friend and fellow illustrator, Rusty Zimmerman (sorry buddy).


Trees in Central Park, NYC.





Character design for a future illustration.

detail:


Sketches from the Coney Island SideShow.



Sketches for a cover illustration and spot for Knowledge Arcana online magazine (never published).


...and the under-painting for the spot illustration.

detail:





Sketches form the Society of Illustrators Jazz & Sketch (3 on 3 Thursdays).



San Diego Zoo Sketches (See Moleskine 4.0 post).









More sketches for the Marrow project.


More versions of the sketch from last post.

detail:





Word association exercise used to come up with an idea for my painting of "Underneath It All".


...and a taste of things to come: Sketches from the Society of Illustrators Jazz & Sketch.




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