Archive for the ‘Nature’ Category
Sunday, April 15th, 2012
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Tags:landscape, Massachusetts, New England, Photography
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Tags:Brooklyn Snow, Carroll Gardens, New Year's Eve, northeast snowstorm, smith street, snow, snowstorm in New York City
Posted in Brooklyn, City, Nature, Photography | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Tags:blizzard, blizzard 2009, Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens, northeast snowstorm, snow, snow in New York, snowstorm in New York City, White Christmas
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
28°F Friday December 18, 2009
S’posed to snow maybe tomorrow–need to water my plants–Wes Montgomery on the radio
![north_window_2 north_window_2](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/north_window_2.jpg)
![south_window_1 south_window_1](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/south_window_1.jpg)
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Here are some photographs that I made during a recent visit to a beautiful area of western Massachusetts known as Khandroling:
![dharmakayastupa_01 dharmakayastupa_01](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/dharmakayastupa_01.jpg)
![Pond 3b Pond 3b](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Pond-3b.jpg)
![pond2 pond2](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/pond2.jpg)
![queenanne1 queenanne1](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/queenanne1.jpg)
![Sky 1 copy Sky 1 copy](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Sky-1-copy.jpg)
![Sky 2b Sky 2b](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Sky-2b.jpg)
![Sky 3b Sky 3b](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Sky-3b.jpg)
![sky7 sky7](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/sky7.jpg)
![sky8 sky8](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/sky8.jpg)
![Guardian Cabin Guardian Cabin](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Guardian-Cabin1.jpg)
Tags:clouds, Dakini, Dakinis, Khandro, Khandroling, sky, skywalkers, Western Massachusetts
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
New York City has received a great deal of rainy, cool weather this spring and summer so far. Here are some views of the yard that I’ve been cultivating for the past 10 years:
![Ditch Lillies Ditch Lillies](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Ditch-Lillies1.jpg)
![African Marigolds African Marigolds](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/African-Marigolds.jpg)
Garden Tools and Drawing Tools: “how we go on”
![Garden Tools and Drawing Tools Garden Tools and Drawing Tools](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/2009_07_16_173.JPG)
![Hydrangea Leaves 2009_07_16_26](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/2009_07_16_261.JPG)
![2009_07_16_8 2009_07_16_8](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/2009_07_16_8.JPG)
![Rainwater 2009_07_16_38](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/2009_07_16_382-199x300.jpg)
Tags:Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens, Garden
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
![Cloud Study 1b Cloud Study 1b](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Cloud-Study-1b.jpg)
![Cloud Study 2b Cloud Study 2b](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Cloud-Study-2b.jpg)
Above: two oil sketches on sized paper.
Below: three watercolors.
![Cloud Study 3b Cloud Study 3b](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Cloud-Study-3b.jpg)
![Cloud Study 7b Cloud Study 7b](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Cloud-Study-7b.jpg)
![Cloud over New Jersey 2 Cloud over New Jersey 2](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Cloud-over-New-Jersey-2.jpg)
Tags:Cloud Studies, oil on paper, plein air, Watercolor
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
![Avocado 2 Avocado 2](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Avocado-2-494x1024.jpg)
I can’t imagine not having plants sitting around the studio. An artist friend of mine named Moses Hoskins gave me a tip on growing avocados a few years ago, and I started this one in a coffee can. I’m going to have to transplant it again soon. It’s sitting on my rolling palette-table, which is just a ready-made tabouret fashioned from an old crate I’d found on the street in Manhattan some 15 years ago. I screwed some caster-wheels onto the bottom and store my oil mediums in it. It’s dimensions are identical to the size of my 12″ x 15″ Enigromatic Paintings, one of which is mounted to the side in this photo.
A few years ago I saw an exhibit of Picasso paintings at a gallery on 57th street that included an old palette that the artist had sitting in his studio when he died. I was surprised to see how similar it was to this little crate that I’d found, with an old ceramic plate on top with black paint dried onto it, a brush still stuck to the paint. It was one of the most moving things I’d seen from Picasso: it reminded me of some of his guitar constructions somehow.
Tags:avocado, Harold Graves, Moses Hoskins, Painting, Picasso, plants, ready-made, Studio, tabouret
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
During my regular visits to Prospect Park, I usually bring my sketchbook and inks in my bicycle bag. Here are a few brush drawings I made of the trees there:
![Tree4 Tree4](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Tree4.jpg)
![Tree2 Tree2](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Tree2.jpg)
![Tree3 Tree3](http://haroldgraves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Tree3.jpg)
Tags:Brush, Ink, Ink Wash, Nature, Prospect Park, Trees
Posted in Bicycle, Brooklyn, Drawings, Nature | No Comments »