March 16, 2006

NEW YORK sketchbooks: chromacolour

You know--it just occured to me that there really aren't so many posts with drawings on my blog; I'll have to remedy that. Anyway, this is more like it, right? Fairly self explanitory:

Sketchcrawl, day 1 in NY; cafe sketching that evening; doodles from much later, trying to recall things and people I had seen in the big apple; greek statuary and spanish portraiture from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

The American Museum of Natural History




Balthazar




The Boston MFA

14 comments:

  1. Wow!!! These are great. Inspiring!

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  2. thank you mr. robot!

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  3. the animals are just great. The first one feels so cinematic.

    And love the thumbnails. Should do that myself.

    Great work as usual!

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  4. Thanks German!

    That elephant room naturally had a strong feeling of drama to it--many of the rooms in the museum did: dark and dusty and sort of archaic--like you could feel the age of the room. I found it a bit difficult to find a good place to draw in there, but eventually I hunched in the corner against the wall, and that worked pretty well.

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  5. Very nice work!! Those sketches are great!

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  6. Beautiful sketches, Nick. I especially like the fourth page down of the women standing.

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  7. nice sketchbook stuff
    as usual

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  8. Red pencil sometimes feels softer, don't you think? Don't know if it really is or what. Just a feeling. I remember Jeff Dickson used to do all his work with red pencil... just for the feel of it.

    Your sketches are well observed and alive. Good stuff Nick! What's Balthazar?

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  9. thanks guys--
    yeah, i like the red pencil for its softness. it feels good to me!

    Balthazar (if you click on the link, you'll see) is a great french restaurant in the middle of SoHo in Manhattan. The best coffee ever, a fun atmosphere and beautiful aesthetic. My first breakfast there was one of the most exciting moments of my trip, funnily--just to be there.

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  10. Anonymous10:09 AM

    I love those thumbnails! So tiny, clear, and fun!

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  11. thanks anon!
    i wish i knew who you were!

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  12. wow!!! beautiful sketches!

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