Sunday Sortie

It was another humid warm day on Sunday and I was exhausted after doing laundry, then going into Manhattan to get a haircut, then grabbing a bite with Dutch in Chinatown. On my walk home from the train, a girl walked past me, in her own world. She carried a small foldable lawn/beach chair, with colorful stripes. The fun little chair belied the grim "fuck you" look on her face. "Geez, why do people wear flip-flops in the city?", I thought, as she hurried forward.

Above her is Ronnie, my little assistant, now fully dressed. I gave her a sort of 60s mod Cilla Black/Patti Boyd look.

-Henry

!-18-10

I've been working on canvas collaborations with Jake and Wics2 at the SRC graffiti art vendor table on Broadway in Soho. I've started out small and am working larger and larger, finishing a 5-pack of 8"x10" canvases first, then starting on a 5-pack of 16"x20" canvases, as well as two 38"-long pieces of thick wood panel I found in the street.

I had the pleasure of meeting Riff170 a coupla weeks ago and looked at his stack of laminated colored outlines, as well as hearing his stories of old-school writing. I also took an hour-plus train ride to the Bronx to check out the current show at Da Bakery (http://dabakerynyc.com/) on Southern Blvd. They have these spray tips which are adjustable, basically a rotating calligraphy tip.

Lastly, I watched Rocky Horror Picture Show in its entirety and picked up my first can of Alien Art Concept paint, which is made by Montana Hardcore (Spain). Alien Concept's been out for a few years now, but I had so much Belton on stock that I didn't need new paint until now.

-H.

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Johnny Gill Part 6

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Hi,

I came home one evening stressed out from work as usual and started sketching on an envelope laying around. I kept adding things here and there and here's the final image..

I've been Twittering alot lately, and sometimes I post links to new art there. It's hard to cross-reference updates everywhere. So if Twitter brought u here, congrats.\

Feel like biking tonight. Supposed to be 80-85 degrees this weekend. Wow.

-H

darkside

New stuff scanned in tonight. Ok, some are old, like the one with Solo Flights, which was done in Dec '07, and the Jordan III's, which are from around last summer. But I did some new Photoshop work on them. Basically inverted them and did some gradient overlays and layered tones with fx. Exploratory......

More scans up at my Flickr: Drawings Plus! set.

Day job has been super busy. Hardly have energy to do anything once I come home and eat dinner. But every day is a new day...a rebirth of spirit and energy and opportunities.

1.6.09

Happy Dew Year! Went to Michael Alan's Drawathon this past weekend. This one was at Don Pedro's in Brooklyn. I kicked over one of my Jameson's on the floor. A lot of guys were just standing around gawking at the nude models. Ha.

-H

12.30.08 pt. 2

More outlines and noodlings from the past week.
The drawing above seems to go very well with the January '09 NYLON cover w/ Lily Allen...
"Ronnie" character is ©2008 Henry Ng.

Tunes: Gang Gang Dance, Brian Eno, Taylor Swift, Hercules & Love Affair, Steve Earle, School of Seven Bells, Tetsu Inoue, Hot 97 radio, KCRW Simulcast.