Conscious World Art

Slow-Motion Memoir: An Illustrated History, installment #35 Spring 1972: The specific circumstances surrounding the creation of this piece – which client commissioned it – are forgotten. It’s very possible that it was a job that came my way through The Merchandising Group, the agency that had become my steadiest source of work. The year was […]

Slow-Motion Memoir: An Illustrated History, installment #33 1973: although my early career as a fashion illustrator was founded on men’s wear, with only an occasional woman included in the drawing as virtual accessory, I had switched almost exclusively to illustrating women’s wear by ’73. DuPont, through its agency The Merchandising Group, grew to be my […]

Inside, Looking Out, variation #4 • acrylic on linen, 20″ x 16″ • collection of the artist • $320 Last weekend I finished another color Variation on a Theme that goes back to my beginnings as a painter in 1973. The series that started with Morning, Noon and Night in Dayton has just been expanded […]

Since I made early mention of a show in yesterday’s blog, I might as well talk a bit about what’s happening in early November at the gallery belonging to friends KM and DC a few blocks south on Passyunk Avenue. There’s going to be a show devoted to my Night Lights, with a complementary selection […]

left: original illustration, 16″ x 13″ • right: printed piece on card stock, 14″ x 10″ • both: collection of the artist 1970-1: Building up a portfolio of fashion illustrations from ground zero was a challenging and exciting process that really got under way in the summer of 1970, after being relieved of my designing […]

left: original b&w line illustration, 14″ x 14″ • right: printed piece, 12″ x 12″, reproduced from original b&w artwork (destroyed) • both: collection of the artist Summer/Fall 1970: Although shell-shocked by my negative employment experiences of the past number of months, and determined not seek employment as a designer on 7th Avenue again, my […]

Last Load, oil on linen, 17.5″ x 35.5″ • started March 31, 2012; sold January 21, 2013; finished May 4, 2014 • collection of Liam Braber and Melissa Puterka-Braber If you took note of the ‘started, sold, and finished’ dates listed above, you can see that there’s a story there. How did a painting that […]