Travel Art - LaGuardia Tower

So more Travel Art - especially interesting since the big ice storm and snow storm is coming tonight.  So people are going to be stuck in the airports of the country.  This is the Tower at LaGuardia Airport in New York City.  She definitely qualifies for one of the most interesting towers I have seen.  SO next time you are in the airport look for the different styles and search for the old hidden parts of the place.  This is a mixed media of ink and colored pencils.

Travel Art - the airport

Travel Art is always a bonus, I don't usually get to do as much as I would like because most of the travel is wage slave travel, but the airport provides a special place to do art.  The wait for the plane is usually a good one.  No wage slave work can be done, but art can be.  So I will show over the next couple of days my airport travel art. This is a sketch of a dual truck at Dulles prepping my plane.

Hummingbird

Happy Friday! Hummingbird style.  You have to love this crazy bird which science can barely understand.  Science does not understand how it can fly aerodynamically, and can barely understand how its heart can beat so fast and how it can fly so far.  Some fly across the Caribbean Sea from the U.S. to Central America for the winter.

More Japanese Wood Block Prints

More winter scenes done with markers.  I wanted to capture the sky, the snowflakes, and the water.  This is another experimental copy of the japanese master, Kawase Hasui  SO this is a little bit of a challenge in marker, but the original master had this scene carved out of a wood plank for each color.  That is the truly amazing part.

Japanese Wood Block art prints - Kawase Hasui

This is originally a wood block print by Japanese artist, Kawase Hasui.  The Japanese wood block prints revolutionized the European artists outlook 120 years.  The Impressionists were influenced by these wood block prints.  Even now, an artist can see if they can reproduce the techniques to learn from a master.  This is what I did.  Above was done as an experiment with art markers and white gouache paint for the snow flakes.  So you can see the abstract shapes of the foreground snow in to the middle snow.  The same design considerations go into the snow cover and branch shapes on the pine tree.  I hope to be able to capture snow and design as well as Hasui did.

Henna Hand

The Henna tattoo is a common ritual in many countries and cultures.  I know of its use for the Bridal party in weddings in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.  While temporary, it is beautiful and unique.  The artists who apply the dye for the bridal parties are unique and creative in their chosen filed.  This is a marker drawing to capture one design in a more permanent mode.

Still Life

Happy Sunday, Olympics are over so everything can get back to normal.  This is an oil painting of a vase and flowers.  Enjoy!