7th St NE

The neighborhood you once knew will be no longer.

The Capitol

The Capitol, from the U.S. Botanic Gardens.  I went in to the District to see the Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective at the National Gallery, and felt motivated to walk around a bit afterwards to see if I could find something to sketch.  While I was sketching I met an Italian painter who was here on vacation, and had arrived in New York just in time for the hurricane.  Not the best introduction to our country - but he sounded like he was having a good time anyway.  He showed me some of his own sketches as well, which were quite good.

Attack Mode

Marilyn

The classic Woodley Park mural. Commissioned (in either 1968, or 1981) by Roi Barnard of Salon Roi, and painted by John Bailey. I thought it could use a little love in ink on paper.

H Street Festival

The H Street Festival in Northeast D.C. closed down the street and filled it with crowds, tents, vendors, and music.  I got a little sunburned, but otherwise had a good time.

Three Riders...dulynotedpainters

THREE RIDERS: Matt Malone. I have a new website...Duly Noted Painters

Cathedral of Saint Matthew

After returning from the Portland Location Sketching Workshop, I wanted to try the techniques I learned in my home town. So I headed in to Rhode Island Avenue NW today to sketch the Cathedral of Saint Matthew. (You can find my sketches from the workshop on Flickr.)
There was also an interesting exhibit on drawings, sketches, and watercolors by the old masters at the National Gallery of Art that I enjoyed while I was downtown.

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22 Sketches of Artomatic

 

So, Artomatic has a tradition of anonymous (or semi-anonymous) individuals who leave gifts, poems or kind comments to participants;  the Benefactor, Brash, the Collector 2.0...

So, with that in mind, I thought that instead of making a regular "Top Ten" list or "Best of AOM" list, I'd try and make a sketch for my favorite displays of this year's show.  I didn't quite finish as many as I wanted, but I did get about 22 sketches done and distributed back to the artists who inspired them. The're not all stellar sketches, but I tried to do them quick, so lay off man.

No name, no email, no signature or website on it.  Just a small small (2" x 3 1/4" specifically) gesture to let them know they are among my favorites of this year.

Though it wouldn't take much to figure out I did them... (golly look, a blog post about it!)

Here's how they look as I put the sketches up in the artists' spaces.

Zofie Lang, Beth Farnstrom, Matt MacIntire, Stephanie Booth, Sean Hennessy, Rania Hassan, Robert W Kincheloe, Peter Gordon, David D'Orio, Megan Maher, Matthew Malone & Kurtis Ceppetelli, Mariko Iguchi, Jessica Murray, Brian Jerome Murphy, Greg Minah, Giant Japanese Monsters, Bad!, Mei Mei Chang, Marty Ittner, Kathryn Trillas, Erin Antognoli, Ellen Hill, & the DC Creepers (Tommy Corrigan & Eric Gordon).

In addition to these 22, I also loved what I saw from Missy Carr, Christopher Goodwin, G. Vollrath, Dominick Rabrun, Christopher Grady, Todd Gardner, Frederick Nunely, Jenny Walton, Annie Riker & Amy Keys, Joseph A Corcoran, Cory Orberndorfer, Sabrina Cabada, Jamie Gerhold, Nick Zimbro, Shambles Cross, Salvador Casco, Ray Allard, Liliane Bloom.

More pics after the jump!

It's been too long since I posted on our Urban Sketchers DC blog. At last here are a few recent sketches from trips on the metro and waiting rooms. I am looking forward to the sketch crawl at Artomatic 2012 in Crystal City this Saturday!

Dusk of H St.

Smith Commons on H St commission the street artist Gaia to make this stunning mural on the side of their building. Pretty awesome. Had to draw it.

This got some other murals in town on my mind, so I am going to try and sketch a few more of them before I leave for the summer.

Dance Africa @ Brookland Art Lofts

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An ongoing series of events in the neighborhood of Brookland all month. Check the link: http://www.danceplace.org/top-news/artland/