New York City – November 17, 2012
The warmth of summer seems like a long time ago. We sketched today at the northeast end of
Central Park. We started at the Duke
Ellington Circle and it must have been right at the edge of freezing. As the day progressed it warmed up and maybe
got to 50 degrees (10°
C)
The sun was brilliant and there were still lots of autumn
colors left, which was surprising considering how powerful and destructive
Hurricane Sandy had been to New York two weeks ago.
After drawing Denise and I walked along Fifth Avenue and
went to the Wayne Thiebaud show at the Acquavella Galleries. The man is a treasure. His colors are almost too rich to be believed with layered buttery heaps of paint throwing off shimmering iridescence color.
Thiebaud is also the master of a kindred form of
Urban Sketching. He creates fantasy
urban landscapes with incredible tilting planes and impossible perspectives. If you saw the movie "Inception", or even
remember the advertising, ... the crazy tilted streets, upending on themselves - those scenes from the movie have a flavor of Thiebaud’s SurrealUrban Paintings.
Beautiful sketches. I'm so happy to see an NYC USK blog! Hope you post your scheduled outings in case I'm in the area.
ReplyDeleteNice job Mark!!!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!!
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