Black & White Drawings On Larger Watercolor Papers

Custom Commissions

1500 K Street, Washington DC

Along with a couple of commissions I did this past year out of my oh so tiny studio/apt. I came up with this crazy and amazing idea for a whole new body of work that is a completely different direction, one that takes me back to how my artistic life began, and it entails molding two images together into one black and white ink drawing that will be a bit larger then life. It will be iconic in nature because of the subject matter and definitely a popular subject matter for collectors to gravitate to especially after they see the drawings in person.

The only aspect holding me back is certain limitations due to my disability and needing a little outside help, a little assistance to gather and attain the best materials and tools necessary to do the work. One of my goals is to soon be self sufficient as an artist and to not rely any more on an agency to help with my housing needs because of my disability.

On a Sunday in August of 2017, I received an email from Stacy Sklaver of Art Matters inquiring about a painting of mine a client of hers had seen on a design site and if I might be able to create something similar but larger. What the original piece was was a 17" x 14" oil painting with ink and gouache painted on paper. Also the oil paint had a unique texture since it had been sitting in a plastic tube for a while and it was congealed. I knew that it would be difficult to recreate that same texture for a client that wanted the paintings in a short amount of time because when you get an email on a Sunday from a client that is usually a sign that it needs to be done in a hurry.

Since I work 7 days a week (come on, I'm an artist with a Brain Injury Disability and I live alone because of it so what else am I going to do - insert smiling emoji here) I replied back and the next day I spoke with Stacy and below is the rest of the story I put on my Instagram feed but......

I couldn't put it on my Instagram feed until way after the project was completed and the paintings were installed and the building was opened and completed because of the sensitive for the sake of the client. So....

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Through the efforts of Stacy Sklaver and Debbie Sotzsky of Art Matters, out of Washington DC, we were able to make this (photos of my gorgeous paintings installed in their permanent home at 1500 K St., Washington DC) happen, within a short amount of time through emails and a few phone calls. I could not have created the pieces any better then if I had been there myself.

P.S. Genie Canvas @geniecanvas played a big part in helping me get the commission completed. The owner, Mike, is so kind and helpful and without him and his wonderful canvases I could not have gotten it done in the short amount of time I needed to get it done.

Lobby photos by Debbie Sotzsky

Client /

1500 K Street

Beverley Hills Law Firm

Role /

Artist

Agency /

Self

Year /

2017

Beverley Hills Law Firm

Black & White Ink Drawings On Watercolor Papers

Ever since my accident over 14 years ago my world has been in a flux of up and down topsy turvy financial worry. My ability to earn a living through sales of my art has been the biggest challenge despite my HUGE body of work. It's the managing the business part of the art business that creates the chaos in my life. Brain Injuries and management are not a very good combination.

With that said, I have had some wonderful things happen, as you can see but I just need more of them, more consistency and in February of 2017 I had this wonderful idea for a new body of work that was going to incorporate a mixture of what I use to do so well in the past and that was drawing along with the commercial appeal of athletic sports stars!! I had this idea, almost a vision in my mind as if it was a sculpture of seeing the backside of a basketball players hands with the skin of the basketball as the skin of the hands from the point of view of the player that is going to shoot the ball. This was the first time I had ever seen a completed piece in my mind. So I knew I had to do it!

So this past year I have been drawing like crazy, which is what you see below but not all of the pieces. I even got a few more drawing ideas such as large scale symbol drawings of exclamation points, question marks, hashtags, etc. You get the point! These are suppose to look as it a extremely large typewriter did it's thing on crisp beautiful paper and made a piece of iconic art in the process.

On top of that I also want to draw large scale black and white dancers bodies, or at the their form against the black background. The simple elegant line of a dancers body poetically drawn.

Simple silhouettes of the shapes of certain flowers will not go unnoticed as well!

And last but not least HAND BAGS with the drawings of hands in the bags, similar to the colorful one below.

All of these works should keep me very busy and be very marketable from the research I have been doing over the past couple of years. Even my abstract black and white ink drawings would be marketable to a keen investors eye!

Black & White Drawings On Larger Watercolor Papers

Custom Commissions

1500 K Street, Washington DC

Beverley Hills Law Firm

Black & White Ink Drawings On Watercolor Papers

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On top of that I also want to draw large scale black and white dancers bodies, or at the their form against the black background. The simple elegant line of a dancers body poetically drawn.

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Simple silhouettes of the shapes of certain flowers will not go unnoticed as well!

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And last but not least HAND BAGS with the drawings of hands in the bags, similar to the colorful one below.

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All of these works should keep me very busy and be very marketable from the research I have been doing over the past couple of years. Even my abstract black and white ink drawings would be marketable to a keen investors eye!

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