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#SunflowerSessions

For the last year and half I have enjoyed the experience of live drawing and painting at PROJECT trade show in New York and Las Vegas. This season (F/W16) is the point where I finally hit my stride. My look has come together, my confidence is at it's highest and my productivity live is insane!

15 paintings at one show sounds like so few when I compare myself to an illustrator like Richard Haines, but when I consider the styles in which we work I realize that his advantage is flow. My advantage is detail and rendering. It's this detail matched with speed that gives me my unique advantage.

SHOP THE LOOK

Jacket- Andre Phillipe Inc

Hat- Goorin Bros.

Watch- Deutsche Uhrenfabrik

Pocket Square- Ikire Jones

Click to see the Paintings from PROJECT F/W16

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In Chicago with DUFA Watches

With limited time we had to be choosy with where we went in Chicago.

We hit a few key stops including The Bean, The Art Institute (only recorded the museum photos on snapchat: sunflower-man), Giordano's, Intelligentsia Coffee and the Sears Tower.

All along the way we traveled with Deutsche Uhrenfabrik's (DUFA) Ludwig Chronograph.

The Bean

Giordano's Deep Dish Pizza

Intelligentsia Coffee

Sears (Willis) Tower

SHOP THE LOOK

Watch- Deutsche Uhrenfabrik Ludwig Chronograph.

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Kehinde Wiley at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Over the holidays I visited three of the greater Art Museums in all of America. Fort Worth boasts three significant museums within a few block's radius in what's aptly called the Arts District. I will be presenting each in three upcoming posts including this, featuring the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

-Oldest Museum in Texas. Dedicated to collecting, presenting, and interpreting international developments in post–World War II art in all media.
-Chartered in 1892, going through several name changes until being name Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 1987
-Architect, Tadao Ando

The Exhibit, 'Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic'

I first saw the works of Kehinde Wiley when I entered Kendall College of Art and Design. Way back in 2007 I was in awe of his work but did little in researching or understanding the body of work or the man who created it.

photograph by Chad Batka for the New York Times

Shortly after earning an MFA from Yale, Kehinde stormed the art world with his signature imagery of black men and women set against the backgrounds of ornate tapestry or in place of the figure in an Old Master painting.

The paintings take on overt political and social overtones. Kehinde is open and unashamed of his championing of black people in painting. Where the Western world has consistently excluded black men and women from painting, Kehinde has flipped the script and drawn attention to the terribly obvious omission.

My intent here is not to give a complete synopsis of the artist or an in depth take on the Museum but to make an introduction, one that hopefully entreats you to discover more about this important artist and institution. Get a quick, but more in depth overview here- Kehinde Wiley, and here- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

The Modern does not allow photography inside traveling exhibits but they do allow photography of their permanent collection. Franz Kline and Motherwell are two of my greatest inspirations, so standing in front of these masterpieces by Motherwell at the Modern was an opportunity I couldn't miss.