girlfriends, 25x25” colored pencil and oil on extra fine portrait linen, as she looked at the end of day one.
5:48 PM: i’m starting a series of six paintings, all 25x25” on portrait linen. it’s the last of my 84” long roll of extra fine portrait linen. i should be getting a new roll delivered later this week.
unlike the recent paintings i’ve been doing, this one, for now at least contains only two figures, both viewed from above, both women sitting side by side on a wooden bench, one looking at her phone, the other with her phone to her ear.. i completed the drawing and began introducing flesh tones; i’ll take it further tomorrow.
Grand Central, 36x36” lithograph in an edition of 125
1:09 PM: i made this 36x36” lithograph in 1984, during the period when i was living in manhattan and showing at fischbach gallery on 57th street. it’s an edition of 125, some of which are in private collections and the reta are here in my studio. i made the studies for the piece on site and would take the opportunity to visit my dad in his office, just off 5th avenue. at the time i was living and painting in a 10th floor appartment on central park west.
it’s sitting atop my desk here in the studio, covered in plastic, which is why you see the reflection in the corner.