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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Self Portrait in the Window

This is just a semi-blind contour drawing that I made of myself. I drew from the reflection in a window after it was dark outside. The window had a double layer of glass which caused a double reflection making it difficult to see detail.

I like how my head is sorta stretched out vertically, like a bobble head doll.

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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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Mouse Trap

I have some mice in my apartment and I'm trying to get rid of them. I killed one a few nights back and I was hoping to find another tonight, but alas my traps were empty.

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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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Remeber to LOOK!

So I started drawing the dude reading the newspaper but I was feeling uncomfortable because he was sort of looking in my direction. Oh, I was riding the subway home from watching the Detroit Pistons loose game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals at a bar in the Lower East Side (they lost the series). Anyway, I couldn't look at him comfortably so the drawing wasn't going so well. At East Broadway or the York stop a woman sat down with her back to me and she was wearing a strappy tank top and the straps must have been broken because there was a hair clip holding them in place. Anyway, I started drawing the clip and expanded from there and because she was facing away I didn't feel weird making the drawing and as a result I was actually LOOKING so it turned out OK.

Lesson learned.

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Also, I just saw a mouse run by the wall in my apartment. Guess I'll have to get some traps.

Much

A hazy morning subway sketch. I was pretty sleepy and I think I had the word "MUNCH" in my head and I started drawing these blocky letters that sorta looked like teeth. I guess I became engrossed in the idea of the letters becoming teeth that I didn't realize that I had written "MUCH" instead of "MUNCH".

Oh well.
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Subway Doodles

I'm going to try to get back into this Daily Drawing thing.
Wish me luck.
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Still Dreamin'

Oh man, last night I had a terrifying dream, so I tried to draw it on to subway today while I was going to work. In the dream a cat was scratching my face and one of it's claws became lodged in my cheek. For some reason neither the cat nor I could remove the claw from my cheek and though it was really frightening I couldn't feel anything that I would call pain. The only sensation was a firm pressure on my cheek. The dream was scary enough to wake me up and I found myself laying face down, off of my pillow, with may cheek resting firmly on the mattress.

TGIF!!!
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Subway Sketches

Just a spread from my sketchbook. On the right was made at the 2nd Avenue F train station and the left was made wile riding the train home.
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