Gowanus Water Tower

Water tower near Gowanus, Brooklyn.

Rebecca and Jacqueline

I've been back to figure drawing for the first time in, like, two years. My usual drawing studio, Minerva Durham's Spring Street Studio, which has relocated to Broome St. and is now known as Minerva's Studio. It was good to get back to doing this sort of work.

Jacqueline:

Rebecca:

Concrete Scraper

This machine is apparently a concrete floor scraper. For when you need to scrape a concrete floor. Outside the Empire Stores development in DUMBO.

Test Header

This fixture is called a test header. It's used to test the water flow in a building's fire sprinkler system. This one is located on the back of a Home Depot in Gowanus.

Itasca

A 1970's era Itasca motorhome. At first I thought it was 'Xtasca' because of the funky '70s font, but it's 'Itasca,' a division of Winnebago. This RV is a mystery to me. It's in my neighborhood, and has been parked in the same spot for the near-three years I've lived here without being ticketed or towed. It is right by a big church, so maybe it belongs to them and the local cops know and so leave it alone? But that church has a huge parking lot, so why wouldn't it be parked in there? Strange.

Big Door, Little Door

Old loading dock door in Times Square, on W. 41st St., between 7th and 8th Ave.

Plaza Bear

A giant stuffed bear-doorman outside one of the shops at the Plaza Hotel. I'm not sure what the story of the bear is. Is it a character from the Eloise books, which are set in the Plaza, or just something fun?