new pair of jeans.......

Jeans....womans size 6............$650 including shipping............I will also do commissions if anyone is interested......these started as white jeans.........

Toronto art fair.

So busy couple of days.  On Thursday of last week went up to the Toronto Art Fair with Space 776 gallery in Bushwick.  Great city, great fair........but unfortunately no sales. Such is the life of an artist these days.  Put a lot of time and money (lots of money) into this, so it was  a disappointment.  Perhaps I had shown this new work too early.  Hard to say.  I did show the art jacket and had older cards, the public seemed to respond to the older work and maybe I had a mixed message.

this was the booth from the fair.

It is a learning curve at any rate.......I am trying to figure out where to put my energy now to make some sales and get through the year.

on Saturday I did another event, here in NY wearing my art clothes.....Here my friend Judy is wearing a dress from the monoprint behind......

Toronto Art Fair this week.

Off to the Toronto affordable art fair tomorrow, I will be there Thursday and Friday......stop by if
you are in the area.....you can contact me at my e-mail if you have any questions as to where and when the fair is being held.

3 stages

this is 3 stages of this piece so far....I will let it dry before going into it again.....if I try to overpaint I will loose some of the detail that I would like to retain beneath the glaze....

weekly wrap up.

Weekly wrap up.......

Framed this piece for the art fair in Toronto.....cutting molding into the night.......but it alas, did not make the cut........so have to find a place on the wall of Krasowitz gallery and sometimes home......

the new t shirts came in from Hong Kong yesterday........they did an amazing job.  These shirts are printed then sown, so there is no problem with wrinkles on the shirt where no ink can cover......I have 7 of 5 designs.....now I have to try to sell them.

this painting was originally acrylic, completed sometime last year.......I did a layer of oil glaze on it this week........I like the idea of figurative space, I will start a new one from this piece this weekend.

A pretty productive week in general, and I am looking forward to being in Toronto for a couple of days next week for the affordable art fair there.

Next up is the Select art fair in NYC in May, have to focus on that now........

what would it look like?

What if the ground you are standing on suddenly gave way.  Not in the normal physical way, but suddenly you just became  part of the ground.....or like the ground itself was no longer solid, you were not solid, and you existed in this state for a while

How would your mind come to terms with this?  What if time did not just exist in a linear fashion, but had a third tangential dimension?  What if time itself had a form, like a hexagon, or a wave that injected itself into different unforseen dimensions?

Is there the potential for man to reach a state of consciousness where we can perceive these non linear tracts of awareness?  What would it look like?

triptich......

second and first state on this painting.  I had done the acrylic first stage a while back......actually forgot about these pieces and found them in storage while looking for something for the show in May........

I think it is an interesting exercise to go over a previous thing......the new state has to exist on its own, but hold to the feeling and ideas of the first state......I guess if I do a lot more of these I will finally become comfortable with this process........

there are 3 of these......starting on the third now.........it will be a triptich..........

added words

added words last night for the first time in many years to a painting......

this is where it was last night.......worked it up this morning.

Coloring Book

today's painting is an overpainting of a previous work........

this is the previous state of this painting..........I wanted to sharpen focus on the figures and deepen the colors to bring out the forms.........

This is a coloring book I created from vector drawings from this year.  They are available for $10 each if anyone is interested.......please leave a comment or email me at
krasowitz@gmail.com

poem........

America sings for its supper

Along a road filled with remorse and

If you think I will forgive you

For what you have done

For what you have done

Leave this place

Do not look back

Or I will turn into a monster

You will wish you were stone

For what you have done

To this glorious land

Desecrated by your greed

Your senseless drive along this road

Straight to the heart of darkness

Where nothing but you are left

To ponder what once was

This glorious land

Where harmony once created balance

Where there was no want

The eternal soul of a place laid waste.

America sing for forgiveness

Before the night comes and the darkness begins

Shine in accomplishment and diversity

Breathe the air of forgiveness and drive out the pain

Embrace a coalition of those who can create

A beacon to ignorance and fear

I am waiting at a bus station

Cherie holds tightly to a threadbare bundle

Apprehensive and shy

Ready for adventure

With nothing left to loose

There is something to bus stations at night

Where people from everywhere converge

To go somewhere else

To disappear

To become someone else

Shadows on the road from people searching

Looking for America

Looking for the dream

She plays a quiet song

Souls looking for America.

warrior

April 16 Toronto Affordable art fair
May 14-17 Select Art Fair NYC.

Today busy making frames for the paintings for Toronto......tomorrow I start work on framing the piece for the NY show.......

Today's piece is an oil on oil paper.......trying to keep things really loose.......