Conscious World Art

20 original fashion illustrations that survived my dramatic change of careers… There are relatively few illustrations in color, as most work was created as fine line pen & ink drawings, to be reproduced in b&w, or just a single color. Nearly all works represented here are drawn on paper, measuring 17″ x 14″, and presently […]

DaVinci Art Alliance • 704 Catharine St. • Philadelphia PA Tonight, August 6 – Wednesday, 6-9 pm Opening Reception for Some Like It Hot! Show runs through August 27. Hours: Wednesdays 5-7, Saturdays & Sundays 12-5 Fire Flies, aka When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain • acrylic on canvasboard, 15″ x 30″ • $450 […]

Life-Guard Practice-Maneuvers: Four Testaments to the Hardiness of the Sea and Seamen. Photos from Tuesday afternoon July 29th, while walking along the beach in Longport, NJ with friends Burnell Yow! Betsy Alexander, and Ellen Sall, during our day-visit with Ellen, who hosted us royally. Thanks E for a delightful afternoon and evening. The serendipitous “Where […]

At left and below are my three submissions to the DaVinci Art Alliance’s upcoming August show – Some Like It Hot – juried by Amie Potsic, Executive Director of the Main Line Art Center. Jurying in this case is for actual inclusion in the show, not just the awarding of prizes. So I have no […]

Illustrated Memoirs of a Quick-Change Artist, #47 1973: One of the last big jobs completed before my partner and I broke up house-keeping in August 1973 was a portfolio of seven 17″h x 22″w plates printed in monotone for Elegance, one of the Merchandising Group’s clients. Each illustrated tableau comprised an average of eight figures. […]

In the back-yard garden with its clump of six traditional tiger lilies, the first of the twenty-one maturing buds unfurled last Tuesday, the Ides of July, and by the weekend all six plants – one with five buds, another with four, the other four stalks with three buds each – were blooming profusely. A week […]

Slow-Motion Memoir: An Illustrated History, installment #45. 1973: One of the more interesting of my fashion illustration jobs was designing and ‘inking’ a number of drawings that were printed on sheets of acetate, to be used as overlays on an overhead projector, that pre-powerpoint way of displaying images to an audience, often in a class-room […]