Day Books, the art-as-life of Sharon Frost, one page after another.

Todavía, Todos los fuegos al fuego, Che. 19 Mayo, 2012. (Still All Fires the Fire, Che)

8 1/4 x 10 in. double-page Moleskine cahier spread; watercolor, ink, guoache, whatever, on paper.

4th Avenue, Brooklyn. And Cortázar on Kindle. 

The interactive Spanish-English dictionary makes me feel like I really am reading and I guess I am.  Words like pantanos (bogs) and barro (mud) are accessible and you're tramping with Che and his asthma in the swamp  (ciénaga).

La enfermidad de los sanos. 28 abríl, 2012. (The sickness of the healthy)

6 x 8 in.; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Stillman & Birn paper.

(The sickness of the well.)

La burbuja temporal. 27 abríl, 2012.

8 1/4 x 10 in. double-page  Moleskine cahier spread; watercolor, ink, whatever, on paper.

(The time bubble on the F train.))

Trabajando en el piso. 18 abríl, 2012. (Working on the floor.)

8 1/2 x 10 in. double-page Moleskine spread; watercolor, ink, whatever, on paper.

(Close to my subject but out of focus, not out of step.)

Y boludo, "antes de que" tome el subjuntivo. 30 marzo, 2012. (And boludo, "antes de que" takes the subjunctive.)

(In the Brooklyn Commune, reading in Spanish, time passes.)

6 x 8 in; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Stillman & Birn paper.

La vuelta de español: tres trenes (M/F/otro F), leyendo "Subjuntivo" 9 Marzo, 2012.

7 x 14 in. double-page spread; watercolor, ink, whatever on Stonehenge paper.

(Church Street stop, and we change for the last time.)

 

El camino al español es duro por el subte (linea F). 24 febrero, 2012. (The road to Spanish is hard on the subway.)

8 x 10 in. double-page Moleskine cahier spread; ink, watercolor, whatever on paper.

(It's winter and finally it's turned cold -- it's almost March.)

Time slides. Weegee (1899-1968), Shelley (1792-1822). They did share a century.

7 x 14 in. double-page spread; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Stonehenge paper.

Time to kill between seeing the Weegee exhibition at International Center of Photography and attending an opening preview of Shelley's Ghost at The New York Public Library. What a contrast.

Advanced training: 3 line ride from Manhattan to Brooklyn. 12 January, 2012.

7 x 14 in. double-page spread; watercolor, ink, whatever, on paper.

Paging through. 16 December, 2011.

7 x 14 in. double-page spread; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Stonehenge paper.