113. L'Inconnue de la Seine

 

Haven't been to class for a while, because I had to write, but I think I'm pretty close to being done and school's out and I've had a few days off, so...a study of the (alleged) death mask of the "Unknown Woman of the Seine." Good story there.

112. Feb 29, 2013

 

111. February 7, 2013

 

 

110. January 24 and 31, 2013

109. January 17, 2013

108. Oct 18, 2012

15s, and 20s.

 

107. from recent sessions

106. August 17, 2012

Back from summer break...

105. June 13, 2012

 Last class of the semester. These are all, for what it's worth, rather large: 2.5' x 3.5'- ish.

104. May 23, 2012

A few from the last few weeks.

"The Creative Gene"

The very stylish new Cate School Bulletin recently asked me to write a short piece about the prevalance of painters in my family. (The painting above is a woodcut actually, by my mother, entitled "Birches.")

Heres a snippet:

•  The point — if we must identify some influence, some monkey-see monkey-do element to growing up in the home of an artist — was the extraordinary stubbornness on display, the constancy involved in returning to the same room every day, closing the door and taking up those same nuts and bolts again, and again and again and again, surrendering to the same indomitable compulsion without complaint, without fanfare, without comment. Just being the tortoise instead of the hare, that was the point.

I provide two links: one to the article itself, the other to a flash version of the entire issue, which is dedicated to the arts at Cate. "The Creative Gene" starts on page 23, and includes more paintings by family members, including my aunt, Meredith Abbott, and my cousins, Robert Abbott and Whitney Abbott. But the whole issue is terrific and terrific looking. Congratulations to Sarah Kidwell and her right-hand man, Jarred Ray, for putting it all together.

Central Park: an anthology

If I'm not mistaken, yesterday marked the release of CENTRAL PARK: an anthology. Edited by Andrew Blauner, the collection contains pieces by Colson Whitehead, Paul Auster, Francine Prose, Jonathan Safran Foer, and a bunch of other fine writers. There's one by me as well, entitled "Beastie," excerpted from a much longer story by the same name that I wrote a few years back.  In recognition, I include here a number of illustrations I drew for that complete version.

 
Congratulations, Andrew!
(And here are some places to purchase: Amazon.  B&N.  IndieBound.)
(Also, if you'd like to read the poem that inspired Beastie, it can be found over at brookshansen.com.)

101. april 11, 2012

100. April 5, 2012 (Ah, so THAT'S what a hundred is...)

All in smaller sketchbooks.

99. March 29, 2012

new brown pencils for my birthday. We're between formal classes now and working in a tighter space, so these are smaller sketches, in pads. 9"x12"-ish. Five minutes and ten minutes.

98. March 14, 2012

97. February 23, 2012

96. February 15, 2012

95. More recent sketches