Studio 365: Day 43

February 12, 2015Studio 365, Uncategorized365, acrylic painting, Art, Art studio, Freedom Tower, New York, travelAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

Freedom Tower III in progress.

Studio 365: Day 42

February 11, 2015Studio 365, Uncategorized365, Art studio, Freedom Tower, photography, postadayAndrew Seal View all 2 comments

Freedom Tower II

Studio 365: Day 41

February 10, 2015Studio 365, Uncategorized365, acrylic painting, Art, Art studio, photography, postadayAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Freedom Tower I

Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale II

February 10, 2015Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challenge9/11 Memorial Museum, Freedom Tower, New York, One World Trade Centre, photography, postaday, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal One comment

The scale of One World Trade Center, the “Freedom Tower”, rising like the phoenix above the 9/11 Memorial Site, is a wonder to behold. It seems to represent not only freedom but so much more: defiance, resilience, endurance, hope and perhaps above all remembrance.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time…Virgil

This quote from Virgil, which I posted on thechangingpalette three days ago, is displayed in the hall of the 9/11 Memorial Museum. It seems appropriate to post it once again to accompany today’s images.

Studio 365: Day 40

February 9, 2015Studio 365, Uncategorized365, Art studio, Central Park, New York, photography, postaday, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 3 comments

Back in the studio after a whirlwind visit to New York. Over the next few days I’ll post some of the memorable images but in the meantime here is one of my favourites, yesterday afternoon’s Central Park jogger. Like the Red Cyclist it was one of those lucky moments. The scale of the solitary figure against the trees and buildings I think justifies its inclusion in this week’s photo challenge.

Studio 365: Day 39

February 8, 2015Studio 365, Uncategorized365, acrylic painting, collage, Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, photography, postadayAndrew Seal View all 5 comments

What better way to spend Sunday before returning to Vancouver tonight than exploring the glorious treasures of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I wish!

Studio 365: Day 38

February 7, 2015Studio 365, Uncategorized365, 9/11 Museum, abstraction, acrylic painting, Art, New York, photography, postaday, RemembranceAndrew Seal View all 2 comments

No day shall erase you from the memory of time…Virgil

So moved by our visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum today.

Studio 365: Day 37

February 6, 2015Studio 365, Uncategorized365, Art studio, humour, minitures, photography, postaday, scale, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 8 comments

Greetings from New York! Yes, we made it, as those of you who follow the Weekly Photo Challenge already know as I submitted a photo of the Manhattan skyline from our taxi ride in.

How can I be in two places at once you ask? Well, at the beginning of the year my goal was to post an image from the studio every day for a year and so today is no exception.

If you look at the top shelf you will see the perspex box I used for the Daily Prompt: Make me Smile last April. Given that Michelle’s subject for this week’s Photo Challenge is Scale I like to think the photos are worthy of a re-post, as they are all about scale…and hopefully will make you smile again.

Not at home.

Knot, at home.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale

February 6, 2015Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challengecityscape, Henri Matisse, Manhatten, MOMA, New York, photography, postaday, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 8 comments

New York, New York

Can there be anything more dramatic than the scale of the Manhattan skyline glistening and glimmmering in the early morning sun, as captured with my iPhone through our taxi window on the ride from JFK this morning after our red-eye flight from Vancouver. I know it’s not the greatest of photos but I feel it captures the beauty and majesty of this magnificent city waking to a new day.

Yes, for those of you who follow thechangingpalette, we made it to New York this week after our trip was cancelled a week ago because of the weather, and spent a glorious morning at the Matisse Cut-out’s exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, an exhibition that is all about scale and color and harmony, just as New York itself is, and about which more to come.

Studio 365: Day 36

February 5, 2015Studio 365, Uncategorized365, acrylic painting, Art, Art studio, photography, postaday, tulips, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal One comment

One of the remaining red tulips from Day 30 against an unfinished, imagined “classical” plaster and acrylic relief on canvas, which I also photographed in close up today with my Pentax 100mm Macro lens for Ben’s Weekly Photo Challenge:Depth.