Slow-Action Painting

It was around noon on this bright, trying-to-be-spring day, when I stopped to admire the masterpieces spread before me on Columbus Avenue.

Both drop cloths catching paint from a signpost being painted were lovely, but I especially liked the one that was thickly encrusted with black and yellow splatters.

“That one took 28 years to make,” said one-half of the plein-air painting duo. “All the paint makes it really heavy and it doesn’t blow away.”

He then started shooing me away, while the other one asked, “you mean you would you put this on your wall?”

“Of course, I replied.

He shook his head and laughed, “you’re the fourth person so far to say that today!”

Recent iPhone Paintings

Connecticut Road

An assortment of recent iPhone paintings (using the Brushes app) to kick off the weekend ...



Muji Bag


Grace Building


Doppio


Decaf
(this was in Starbucks)


W. 73rd St.


Change Purse

Sketches with 'Brushes'

White Mug
Now that everyone has moved on to iPads, I figured it was just about the right time to finally get an iPhone.

As an enthusiastic sketcher and painter (note: enthusiasm and results do not necessarily correlate), I couldn’t wait to try the 'Brushes,' the app popularized by David Hockney and Jorge Colombo of New Yorker-cover fame.

Though iPhone “painting” really makes me miss paint, I already feel the pull of convenience. It’s also way less obtrusive in public. After all, isn’t everyone intently stroking a screen for some reason or another?

Morning Pond


Front Room


Schmaltzy Sunset Trio


Up Sixth Avenue


Urban Plein Air


Subway Platform


Pepper Ann on the Dock