Reblogged by Break Through Radio!

It makes me so happy when people notice my art and decide it is worth sharing with others! It makes me feel like my hard work is paying off. Today BTR (Break Through Radio) reblogged my latest "Subway People" post for Untapped Cities!

Read the reblog here.

Read the original here.

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Untapped Cities: Don't Forget to Look Up!

Check out my weekly column for Untapped Cities, make sure you click on the link at the bottom to see the full drawing!

Not far from the Brooklyn Bridge, watching over City Hall, stands the red terra cotta Potter Building, designed by N.G. Starkweather and commissioned by Orlando B. Potter. Constructed from 1883-86 using terra cotta manufactured by the Boston Terra Cotta Company, the Potter building replaced Potter’s World Building that was destroyed by a fire in early 1882. In 1883, The New York Timesannounced that the 11 story office building with the street level commercial space would cost $700,000. To avoid history repeating itself, the Potter Building had the most advanced fireproofing available in the 1880s.

Buildings in the 1880s usually topped out at four stories. But with technological advances, tall buildings between nine and ten stories transformed the streets of lower (Click to read more and see the art)

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Walking tour of the Bowery

During Urban Design Week, I was lucky enough to attend a walking tour of the Bowery led by Eric Ferrara, executive director of the Lower East Side History Project.  Read my recap with 5 drawings here.


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Progress Photo

This is a photo while I was working on my latest untapped cities column.

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ATC/AECO Card #3

I finished my third artist trading card... 17 more to go!

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Partial Failure...

So I was watching TV a few days ago and i saw a commercial for Kodak printers and ink. And the ink dripped onto white paper and eventually formed the words for the end of the commercial as the announcer was talking. I thought it was cool, and wanted to try something like that, but with a face... kinda like the 2009 grammy posters. So i blew up one of my pictures really big and set to work!

After the dripping... waiting for it to dry (i'm very impatient):


All done:

I have to say, it does look like me... but the whole dripping effect when i took off the rubber cement like medium that i painted on the paper. (When you rub it off the paper underneath is still white...kinda like getting tan lines from wearing a shirt in the sun)

I got impatient so there are splotches and smears from wet ink. Also the medium is for watercolor paints... and my ink was heavier... so it didn't all come off on the places it was thick. I think I am going to try this again soon... I know it can work... maybe i won't mask the highlights in my hair... and make the hair just ink blotches... stay tuned... this is a project in process!


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