More work for Dupont…

July 17, 2014

Slow-Motion Memoir: An Illustrated History, installment #44. 1973: At left, one of the only jobs I ever drew featuring children; probably one of those situations which have happened throughout my life where I was asked if I could draw something I hadn’t tried before, and I responded “Why not? Let me give it a try.” […]

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More Free-lancing for Dupont & Alexis Kirk

July 14, 2014

Slow-Motion Memoir: An Illustrated History, installment #43. 1973: at left are four pen and ink illustrations from a suite of drawings done for The Merchandizing Group – the New York agency handling Dupont’s in-trade advertising, which promoted their numerous synthetics – fibers that were revolutionizing the apparel industry at the time: Nylon, Antron, Lycra, Spandex, […]

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Working for the Wool Bureau – Part Deux

July 11, 2014

Slow-Motion Memoir: An Illustrated History, installment #42. Included as part of the extensive WOOL: IT’S A NATURAL project, created for the Wool Bureau in the spring/summer of ’72 — ads from which were featured three days ago — was this cover for a 12″ x 12″ promotional package geared to the home sewing market. All […]

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Free-lancing for The Wool Bureau — early 70s

July 8, 2014

Slow-Motion Memoir: An Illustrated History, installment #41. Back to the story — My Life as a Working Artist — after a break of a month; most recent prior installment dated June 9. 1972-73: Another major client during these exciting early years as a free-lance fashion illustrator in Manhattan was The Wool Bureau, an agency promoting […]

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4th of July Weekend Nocturnes

July 6, 2014

First strip: 3 views from the top roof Friday night after 10:30, trying to capture the fireworks on the parkway beyond the skyscrapers of Center City; all I caught were clouds of cordite smoke floating above the pyramid-topped Mellon Building. Second strip: 3 views from the top roof Saturday night, Before, During and After the […]

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A Week of Watching the SunFlowers Grow

July 6, 2014

Last Saturday I noticed that the bevy of sunflowers which had sprung up ‘volunteer’ style, after an early spring breaking up of the back-yard garden’s soil, had developed heads and were just beginning to pop open. The group of seven plants had been growing apace through May and June, with an Alpha leader that had […]

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MEDIUM: the annual members exhibition at the DaVinci Art Alliance, 704 Catharine St., Philadelphia, PA • July 2-27

July 2, 2014

Concentration & Meditation — aka Iphigenia in Tauris & Buddha on the Beach, oil on linen, 22″ x 34″ each; available separately. The pair of paintings seen above were created especially for the DaVinci Art Alliance’s juried EXOTICA show last August, but were rejected by the juror. In the meantime the pair got an month’s […]

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Road Trip #3 — the Glories of Gray

July 1, 2014

Arrangements in Gray, Black & White — Country & City: We encountered many varieties of luminous gray during our sojourn in Chicago and Wisconsin. Lowering storm clouds on the Mississippi and dense fog banks moving inland from Lake Michigan permeated the air a good many days, inviting contemplation of the power of monotone.

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Road Trip #2 — The Real and the Imagined

June 30, 2014

Ferryville Wisconsin, June 17, 2014: An astonishingly beautiful sky greeted us travelers the morning after we arrived at Marge and Dewey’s retreat on Eagle Ridge, high on the ledges overlooking the mighty Mississippi. A storm had blown through the night before leaving in its wake clear skies; one of those pristine summer days of azure […]

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Road Trip #1 — Chicago Nocturnes

June 28, 2014

3 views from the balcony of the 10th floor condo on North State Parkway in Chicago, where friend Charlie Z and I spent eight of our thirteen nights on the road (thanks Marge & Dewey). Taken at dusk one evening after a storm had blown through leaving dramatic skies. Left photo: looking east toward Lake […]

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Time to Take-a-Break

June 11, 2014

This will be the final posting until late June. I’m hitting the road Thursday, without a laptop or other device for staying in touch online. When I take a vacation, I take as total a vacation from my normal routines as possible. I’ll be driving to Chicago with a friend, spending 4 nights there before […]

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Shoe Illustrations – move over Andy Warhol?

June 9, 2014

Slow-Motion Memoir: An Illustrated History, installment #40 1972? Among the anomalies in my fashion files are a group of 5 men’s-shoe illustrations. Client: forgotten, but there’s a vague memory of a connection to the Wig & Millinery Research rag featured yesterday. Time period: late 1972 by deduction, looking at the drawing style. Evaluation: some of […]

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Free-lancing for Millinery & Wig Research

June 8, 2014

Slow-Motion Memoir: An Illustrated History, installment #39 1972-73: Among my souvenirs of a past that I’ve been taking a closer look at recently as research for this piecemeal autobiography, are a small selection of tear-sheets printed on newsprint now yellowing, from a small tabloid whose masthead reads Voice of the Industry: MILLINERY & WIG RESEARCH, […]

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Shades of Yesterday

June 6, 2014

Slow-Motion Memoir: An Illustrated History, installment #38 1973: This was another free-lance job created for The Merchandising Group; rather an anomaly among the many illustrations done for them, focusing on the revival of ‘gold filled’ eye-glass frames that made such a comeback in the 70s. The piece featured eye-glass looks from five different time periods […]

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Watching the passage of time and the river…

June 6, 2014

Needing to renew my driver’s license this month prompted me to go to the local Penn DOT office Wednesday afternoon to do the deed before leaving on vacation next week. After getting home I scanned, cropped, and pieced the new photo into a series of older ID photos showing how the years and I have […]

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