Rats

These are the rat sculptures that are on the Lexington Ave. side of Grand Central Terminal. I believe it's a reference to the tie-lines from sailing ships when they are docked. I think they had cone shaped pieces on the ropes to keep rats from crawling up and onto the boat.
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Roof Top View

Looking out the window during lunch today. I ate too many doughnuts from the Doughnut Plant, so tasty.
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V. Dollar Building

Here's another drawing from my trip to Put In Bay last week. It's a building near downtown that's certainly over 100 years old and housed the original Put In Bay post office and countless other businesses over the years. Javan said that when he was a kid it was a hardware store, but now it features a bar called "The Fishbowl" in one half of the ground floor and in the other half there is a restaurant called "Mossback's". The "V. Dollar" above the front door is the name of the dude who built it. I forget his first name but he was the first Mayor of Put In Bay.

That's all the history I have.

When I was working on this drawing a guy came up and started chatting with me. It caught me off guard as people in New York don't really pay too much attention so I decided that I need to be more prepared to talk to folks when I'm drawing.

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Tony's Place

Last week I was away on family vacation on South Bass Island which is a part of thePut In Bay Islands out in Lake Erie. This is a drawing of one of the "watering holes" on the island. Tony's Place is more of a local spot so it's pretty similar to my local brooklyn spot, Boat. Anyway, this is a drawing of the outside of the bar.

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111 Mercer

Today was my first summer Friday here in the city (last week I flew to Indiana on Friday) so I took advantage of the wonderful weather and biked down to SoHo to check out a few shops and maybe spend some time drawing.

I ended up making a drawing of 111 Mercer Street which is between Prince and Spring streets just south of the A.P.C. store. The building is one of the few ground floor spaces that does not house some kind of retail or business, but they were looking for a tenant (see the sign in my drawing).


After the jump you can check out an image of the real building that a grabbed from google street view.

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209 Elizabeth Street

Wow, it's been over a month since my last post. Is anyone still out there? Drop a comment and let me know your still checking in every now and again.

The SVA figure drawing should be starting up again so I'm looking forward to that. This drawing is of a building in Manhattan located at 209 Elizabeth Street between Prince and Spring. I had intended on going back and spending a bit more time on this one but never got around to it, so here it is as a somewhat incomplete drawing. It's a very cool building and I was hoping to include some interesting history along with my post but the best I could find was this post about it another blog (check out the link to "more photos" for an exterior view of the building). From the old hand-painted sign I could tell it use to be a bakery but now it's some sort of gallery or antique shop.

Ok, enough talk.
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