‘The Fugue’
watercolor and markers
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Lyrics from the Deftones: Beauty School
You’re shooting stars
from the barrel of your eyes
it drives me crazy
just drives me wild
inspired by this: http://www.skineart.com/art/15553/star-gazerwatercolor-coffee-pig/
Hartmann’s Kaffee Haus, operated by Germans. Upstate, NY. We use to go there for sweets, authentic European cakes, cookies and pies. Food is also delicious, sausages. But mainly it was for a view on the way, called 5 Points, where you can see in the ocean of blue air 5 states, laying like you would see it from the airplane, like alive map. We called it celebration of life. Watercolor in Fabriano book.
Images from the National Zoo in Washington, DC. Watercolor and watersoluble graphite in a new mini (7 x 11 cm^2) Moleskine I made for myself with Strathmore Imperial 500 paper (hence the black thread). The smaller size forces me to be quick. The prairie dog gave me ca. 15 seconds before ducking back into his hole. The Reptile building was a bit stiller…
Motorcycle. That was a pretty one on the pavement of Sheepshead Bay Road in Brooklyn. I like boys toys. I used small Winsor and Newton watercolor in WC Moleskine A4, one Koi water brush with diluted blue watercolor and one Conceal Beauty makeup brush from CVS Pharmacy. And Kuretake 13.
I have interesting ability to see things, I saw before in a new light, every time is a first time. I forget how it looked before. This why I am never bored. (May be everybody is like me?) So this how I saw the place, where we usually go for cat food, this time, with dramatic shadows and bits of red. Watercolor (Japanese) and ink in Arches book.
I used here 3 languages, funny, as a frame. Decorations on the plate I did with a brush pen, Kuretake 13. I thought it would be interesting contrast with watercolor. I used watercolor Lukas in WC Moleskine. This is my first EDM challenge. Draw what you ate for dinner (in Chinese characters), hopefully it is a little bit recognizable. I bought ingredients in Chinese store on Ave U and used my imagination, it turned out pretty delicious.
Sketch for illustration in the newspaper. Watercolor.