Crap at the Whitney

My amazing friend Grace was in the city with her daughter and we went to the Whitney, which is mostly crap and I'm not afraid to say so.

But their rooftop patios are nice.

And anywhere is fun with Grace, especially if there is crap on the walls we can make fun of.

First we went to Blick for Grace's daughter though.

I did not get anything but we found these sharpeners for my favorite clutch pencils, and Grace got me one. :)
It's the green thing in this photo.

(These pencils require a special sharpener (the blue barrel thing below) which is very cool but not always convenient.)

Then we walked to the Whitney.

It was free friday admission.

On the 8th floor there are a bunch of different citrus trees growing, which is kind of cool even though they all look the same and one was dead.

I'm not even a math person and this bothers me.

I sent it to Daya because I knew it would bug her too and it did.

NYC Urban Sketchers Portrait Party

Today was the annual NYC Urban Sketchers Portrait party.

It takes place at the High School for Art and Design.

Everyone who signs up is divided into groups of 12.

One person didn't show for our group so we were 11.

Paper is provided- 9x12 watercolor paper.

Then we take turns sketching each other.

We have 10 minutes for each portrait.

At the end we have a drawing of everyone in the group except ourself, and each group arranges all the portraits in a grid.

There were probably about 5 or 6 groups.

Sone of the work was pretty good.

These are my 10.  I worked in graphite for a few, and for most of them just a black Prismacolor pencil.

I gave them away.

Here is the grid and a few pictures of other groups I liked.

Thee is some pretty good high school work on the walls.

I wonder if this school might be better than LaGuardia for visual arts.

Balanchine & The Met

Daya is in performances this weekend, and I am going to 2 shows- one today and closing night tomorrow.

She is dancing a Balanchine duet from The Four Temperaments.
It's ridiculously difficult.

Unfortunately no video is available due to copyright reasons... the Balanchine Trust just doesn't allow any of the choreography to be in public videos.

I got front row center seats to both shows.

Her dancing tonight was absolutely spectacular- mind-blowing and overwhelming I am so, so proud of Daya.

After the show I went to meet Kedrin at The Met and sketch.

We wandered around remote rooms and hallways in the Asian wing.

I did one sketch.