The Flat Files
Twice-a-month missives on art mediums and processes, and what I'm working on. I do drawings paintings, and printmking in Brooklyn NY.
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No.55 ‘In the long light of summer, all days are full of promise’ (opens the original)
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<img alt="My hand, holding a copy of my summer zine, showing the front cover, showing abstracted watercolor shapes in green and blue, and the title Outboard Weather" class="sizing-normal" height="1747" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PaDU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_au
No.54 Sometimes things lose their shape (opens the original)
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<img alt="Gouache painting of a house in the middle distance, surrounded and dwarfed by trees and foliage in a riot of autumn color" class="sizing-normal" height="1961" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xS5Q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:ste
No.53 Make your days the way you make art (opens the original)
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No.52 The Elusive Promise of Summer (opens the original)
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No.51 My whole approach was misguided (opens the original)
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<img alt="Drawing of red flowers and an empty street scene in Florence, Italy, done in ink and gouache" class="sizing-normal" height="1456" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b_6U!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-pos
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