Blue Man

Charcoal and pastel on paper, 24x34'

2 figures II

Charcoal on Paper 24x34'

2 figures I

Charcoal on paper, 24x34'

Sitting Nude

Charcoal on paper 24x32'

RAIN

Rain (the name of the actress) was a fascinating fashion model! She had the best poses and strikes for her audience. She is black and she doesn't hide it, that's why I think she is terrific!

Study of a nude

Study of a woman's back, some sketches of woman sitting.
Black and red charcoal on paper 24x32'

Red Dragon

Acrylic on Paper, 24x32'

Moose with golden anthlers

Acrylic on Paper, 24x32'

Pacific Octopus

Acrylic on Paper 24x32'

Elephant

Acrylic on Paper, 24x32'

Red Circular Composition

Acrylic on Paper, 24x38'

Blue Circular Composition

Acrylic on Paper, 28x38'

Study of a drop

Acrylic paints on paper 24x38'

Violinist

5 minute drawing, charcoal on paper 24x30'

Hey! Hey!

One beautiful day, me and my friend Tajna went to the Governor's Island, a truly beautiful place to spend a day outside of noisy NYC. I was equipped with Canon 40D bunch of lenses and reflectors + Tajna's video camera. It was a busy and fun day full of creativity and freedom. I have shoot the video and Tajna edited and created the music for it.

Struggling Artist

5 minute pose, charcoal on recycled paper 30x24'

Sitting Model

5 minutes pose, charcoal on recycled paper. 24x30

Manhattan

This view was taken from one of my trips to the West Coast. The plane would fly from JFK airport and make a round turn towards the west and flew right above the Manhattan island. I always try to take a seat next to the window. I am not afraid of heights, I think I overcame that fear in childhood.

I used the picture I took as a reference to draw out and create my first lithograph. I learned new medium as well as challenged myself to draw size-down skyscrapers looking like abstract shapes.

If you haven't seen an artist Stephen Wiltshire draw views of Rome, Tokio, New York from memory.

INFLUX-2

INFLUX is a series of music videos that I created in 2006-2007. The idea was about change, fluctuation of time and space. I biked every morning before I went to work and filmed scenes in and around NYC in 50 miles radius. It took more than a year of biking and filming to capture the transformation and the INFLUX of Big Apple as well as my own.

Aviva Stone

One of the most inspiring models we had was Aviva Stone, who inspired a lot of NYC artists. I currently learned that she passed away last year.

During 2003-2004 I was running figure sketch class at Parsons School of Design.
Every Friday from 3 to 9pm there would be 3-5 models posing in front of a packed class of 40 people. We would start up with 5 seconds drawings to warm up, and later on 2 minutes, 5 minutes and 15 minutes long poses. In one session I would create a pad full of drawings. It was a great exercise. At that time the Austrian chick that i wanted to hang out with, totally ignored me, so it was a great deal to draw nudes to get myself occupied and not thinking of her.

I wish I remember all the models names, they were mostly undiscovered actors or dancers, performers or artists. Most of them were very good at striking a pose and holding it for certain time. I would always have a book of other artists in front of me as I would study the human form as well as other artists. Later on I started to distort some of the features I saw on the human body, characterizing it's unique posture. After all distorting is fun!

Standing Model

Red and brown charcoal on recycled paper 24x30
drawn in 5 minutes

Portrait of a girl

Black ink and water on paper 24x30
From Chris Young's drawing class in Parsons School of Design

Cecilia II

Water color and black ink on paper 24x30

Cicilia