my new atelier

Here is my new space.  I just moved in the day after returning from a five week adventure in Tuscany, Provence and Corsica.  

The space is in La Fabrique in Ivry-sur-Seine, where I worked from 2007- 2009.  It's not the same atelier, this one was where the artist Farah Atassi was working.  I feel lucky to follow her into this space, maybe some of her awesome success will rub off my way.

The exciting thing for me is that here I can use spray paints; use graffiti technique, pochoir, tagging, etc. in my canvases.

Here is a detail of the floor under the wall where Farah worked.  I decided to not cover it up, it's just too cool... 

New York City Urban landscape

Spring Street

80x101cm

Patti Mollica

Artist Patti Mollica is impressive.  She drew sharks while scuba diving. I found her by googling "paintings of New York." Her lovely urban scenes of the big apple knocked my socks off straight out.

As I paint New York I find myself bogged down in details, partially because I paint from photographs.

Patti you are an inspiration!

Here is her blog
http://newyorkpainter.blogspot.com/
and her website
http://www.mollicastudio.com/htmlpages/swimmingwithsharks.html