Retro Pratt 1995

 I went to visit Janae overnight for a paint date at Pratt the next morning.

She kept a scrap book of our Freshman year.

It was so fun to look through- I haven't seen this book since before Daya was born!

That year janae did specifically say she wanted a pony for her birthday...

LOOK AT THESE HOUSING PRICES

I did write epic work orders

Janae's lunch receipt.  LOOK AT THESE PRICES!!
This would be $13- $15 easily today.

RIP Kaiti.....

Keycard Filth Shaming is Not OK

Bitz and I wear our keycards in the river.

Kedrin does not.

So our keycards are coated in river filth and Kedrin's is nice and clean.

She made fun of us.

Reign is tired after a long boathouse day.

Butt prints on the bench

Plein Air Plus Visual Memory

Kedrin recently went to LA and brought back amazing cheese.

She invited me over for a cheese party yesterday.

I brought paint.

We ate AMAZING cheese and had good conversation, and then we went outside to chat and fix jewelry and paint.

And then we got a surprise thunderstorm.

I ALMOST left my gear at Kedrin's because I actually did want to finish this painting.

And then I decided to make it an exercise in visual memory, go home, and finish today.

I very intentionally did not take a picture of this marvelous wall.

This painting was half done on-location and finished from memory in-studio, and I am very happy with it.

8x10 oil

Studio pic before second session

After I finished and posted the painting, Kedrin took a picture of the wall:

July 4, and a Useful Harpoon-Milk-Crate-Thingy

This July 4 was a bit different at the boathouse.

Fireworks are back on the Hudson, so Hudson River Park was closed completely from 1pm onwards.

Originally it was 3pm but they told us last-minute it was actually 1pm.

We could have visitors for our annual party, and we had many of them.

As usual we went on the water for fireworks...there were 2 shows at the same time- the NYC show and the Jersey City show.

I am embarrassed to say NJ was better.  They did an actual finale and the NY show just..... stopped; it was so weird.

I don't know; it was ok, I liked the smaller guest numbers of previous years.

Hector my boathouse brother

We have an actual for-reals HARPOON which is attached to a milk crate for fishing things that fall into the river out of the river.

Graeme demonstrates:

Kedrin attempts after Graeme.

__PRESENT

Sparkly Evening Plein Air

Of course, back at the wildlife refuge.

8x10 oil

Look how sparkly this scene is!

The Re-Tubing Bummer

In my Memorial Day plein air yearly restock, I got a couple HUGE tubes of titanium white.

One of them, to my dismay, HAS A HOLE IN IT.

I am leaking white paint.

This is also really bad because a hole in an oil paint tube will cause the paint to dry inside the tube.

Granted, this will take a while but I'm getting white paint everywhere.

You can't tape a paint tube. It doesn't work. I have tried.

The only thing to do is re-tube, which is why it's always good to have a few empty tubes hanging around.

I got to use my tube wringer!

Mission accomplished!

28 Liberty Plein Air & How to Be Fake Properly

There is a really cool art exhibit in the plaza around my office building.

This morning I went out early to paint.

It was, unfortunately, more crowded than I thought it would be.

This was a challenge, very complex scene and it took a long time, over 4 hours.

8x10 oil

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I do have 24/7 building access so went upstairs to see the situation...because I am DYING to paint the view from the 58th floor.

Unfortunately the shades are down, and I'm afraid to touch them without facilities knowing.

No one is there but I don't want to be on a camera somewhere and getting in trouble.

They are pretty funny about the building........

I'm going to ask.

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In other news......

I put a package on Daya's desk and found....

something hilarious...........

The picture on the fake ID is better than the real one.

I told her not to get arrested.

Honestly, I had a fake ID too when I was 18 and I never even used it.

I'm not worried about this at all, it's a rite of passage for 18 year olds.