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(516)579-4706
visualdust@gmail.com

So I wrote a word with my Bubbly Graffiti:

And I wrote a word with my "Down and Dirty Graffiti",
which I designed from studying the unedited Real Stuff:

They'll frequently be cartoony signatures. Quick happy
playful things. But I just mentioned Pictorial Calligraphy
in this blog this morning. And I came across this
little scrap of paper when I opened my desk drawer
this evening. It's a practice paper I made
when I was seriously studying Chauncery Cursive
several years ago:

Remembering. Old dreams of Fine Art. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

So when I started presigning papers for this week's
gigs (I'll be drawing M&M people for the M&M Company
on Tuesday, and I have two parties on
Saturday - a 13-year-old Birthday and a Graduation,
and I'm expecting the deposit to arrive for
a 10-year-old's Birthday for Friday.... That's about 200 papers.
When you sign them all at once like this, you really see how
presigning saves the customer from paying extra.
It only looks like a partial second to sign a paper. But
when you do all 200 of them at once takes a really countable chunk of time.)

So Like I say, I figured I'd best to presign a whole
lotta papers. Chauncery Cursive seemed too precise
to jump right into just now. But I do Curly Writing
in my day-to-day world. That's a lot
like Pictorial Calligraphy.....

Here's some of the Signatures I made. Each one is like
a piece of Artwork. They're not my 'real official signature',
but they 'claim' my Pictures:

I'm interested in Calligraphy.
I've previously worked very seriously on
things like Ornamental Calligraphy(got to
get back to that beautiful stuff),
very curly writing (I still do that often),
chauncery cursive - that sort of stuff.
And it includes Graffitti. I do see that around.
Some of it is better than others.
I study both the good and the bad ones -
sometimes it's useful to add 'attitude' to
my Caricatures.

Here are some photos that I took of Graffitti around NY.
Some were taken by standing on the street.
But others were taken from a moving train or a moving car.
It's tricky. Because there's a pause between
the time I press the button to take the photo
and the time that the camera
clicks.
So if the vehicle is moving, what I thought
I snapped a picture of is
gone.
I had to take 'blind' pictures.
If I thought a graffitti site was coming up,
I'd aim out the window
and press the button.
Had no idea of what I got
until I came home and put the pictures onto the Computer.
Surprise!

Following is a particularly special one.
I've been seeing it for years
on my way from the city. When I'm driving.
It's on the street in L.I.City where I turn to get onto Route 495:

And here, from way in the bowels of the NY Subway
as the train speeds through a dark tunnel:

Lol - A friend saw these photos. He told me that
he noticed that I had an "SB" there, and that the
"SB" usually stands for "SkateBoarders". I'm looking -
let me know if you see an "SB" in these photos?