February 6, 2008
Sketching the Subway
Amitai Plasse has been sketching his fellow straphangers for 11 years now, and has just begun getting his portraits online. His goal, he tells us, is to "try and capture the characters and scenes I encounter every
day on my travels." These remind us of faster-paced versions of what Marvin Franklin, the late subway track inspector/artist, had been creating all of his years underground.
At least no one is going to try to ban sketching in the subway system, or harass below-street level artists...right?
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One man's pen and ink sketch is another cop's terrorist blueprint schematic. I wish that was jest.
nice find!
I like those very much.
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Nice drawings. Check out Ed Velandria's work (/www.flickr.com/photos/nycsubwayseries) another subway artist, He uses a tablet computer and the pictures have an interesting quality.
Louise (otbkb)