Triumph TR6

A Triumph TR-6 parked in Windsor Terrace. Cars are surprisingly tricky, with all their curves and angles, and getting the proportions just a little bit off can make them look completely wrong. I almost got this one right.

Gravesend F Train

Elevated F Train on McDonald Ave. near Avenue P in Gravesend, Brooklyn.

Mystery Pagoda of East 31st Street

Usually when I find a building as distinct as this, I can find some sort of information about it. Not this time. It may be associated with a Chinese cultural organization a few doors down, or it may have been an Asian restaurant or bar, but I can't find out for certain.

May The Fourth Be With You 2020

Happy Star Wars Day!

McKenna Park

A still-bare tree at Captain John McKenna, IV Park. It's a small park in Windsor Terrace named after a local soldier who died in the war in Iraq. I like taking my kids there because it's so small and hardly anyone is ever there, except this cranky old woman who's always yelling at other people for being there. She seems to be angry that people aren't social distancing enough, even though it's only a very few people nowhere near each other or her. I suspect she's just never liked people being in "her" park, even before the pandemic.

Amabie

The Amabie is a Japanese yokai, or spirit. According to legend, in 1846, it emerged from the sea in the Higo Province. A town official encountered it and drew it in his report, depicting it with long flowing hair, a mouth like a bird's bill, scales from the neck down and three fin-like legs. The Amabie prophesied six years of good harvests, and told the official that "if disease spreads, show a picture of me to those who fall ill and they will be cured." Though a minor and obscure figure in Japanese folklore, it was revived by manga artists during the current pandemic as a symbol of resistance to the disease.

The original report of the Amabie from an 1846 kawaraban, a type of news sheet made from wood or clay block prints.

Life Drawing: Anastasia

From a figure drawing session at the NYU Theater Design Department in March.