Continuing my Old World/New World sketchbook project, I'm heading for New York this weekend to visit and draw Amanda (Crack Skull Bob will be there, too---haven't seen him in way too long!) and to make sketches of Chinatown.
Today I made a couple of Asian-inspired sketches to get in the mood.
I'd made a really quick sketch of this buddha at Spice Street before.
Using orange acrylic paint on paper and a white Sharpie pen, I made a sketch from a Japanese woodcut, and will add it to my 101 Faces collection.
Big smiles for these and the traveling news!
A random bit: when I lived in NYC lo those many years ago, I had a dream that I went to Chinatown, and entered a shop where the aisles were arranged by color -- in other words, a black-and-white food-and-sundries aisle, a red food-and-sundries aisle, etc.
The best part about the dream? A few weeks later, while running an errand far downtown for a gent I freelanced for, I stopped in a store in Chinatown to get a soda, and it was THAT place, with the color-segregated aisles.
I was so unnerved, I spun around and left without even asking about soda...
Posted by: Lori Witzel | April 15, 2007 at 01:38 AM
Oh oh, this orange and white sharpie pens is juicy! I just love this! I hope all is well, I haven't heard from you lately and wish you well.
Warmly,
M
Posted by: Maggie | April 15, 2007 at 01:26 AM
OMG - I love this orange face - Amazing!!!!! more please!
Posted by: cootiegarage | April 14, 2007 at 03:52 PM
NYNY for the weekend of art - that sounds wonderful! Enjoy. Your buddha has a lovely fluid quality to the lines - but of course, being in my own Japanese Period - I am delighted by your sketch of the woodcut. Lovely, lovely!
Posted by: Robyn | April 13, 2007 at 02:15 PM
Thanks everyone! The weather looks like it isn't going to cooperate at all, but I'll do what I can! Cin and Chris, I so wish you could be there, too!
Posted by: Laura | April 13, 2007 at 11:41 AM
Beautiful! It remains me Matisse...:)
Posted by: Catalina | April 13, 2007 at 10:45 AM