Posts Tagged ‘Harold Graves’
More Sketchbook Drawings
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Here are some drawings I made while visiting Cambridge a couple of years ago:
And here’s a few pen & ink drawings I made this week:
Visit Harold’s Sketchbook at www.haroldgraves.com
A Summer Afternoon on The Brooklyn Promenade
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009Studio View: Enigromatic Avocado Tree
Friday, July 10th, 2009I 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.
Buildings and People: Recent Sketchbook Drawings
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009My most recently published “artist’s book” is Buildings and People. This one is mostly drawings of my neighborhood here in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, and a few street scenes in Manhattan, plus some drawings of my fellow subway riders. You can buy a copy of Buildings and People at this great little boutique called Serimony in Brooklyn on Court Street near 3rd place.