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Park Slope Neighbors! I have a few of my 2022 plein air paintings in the display window of NY State Assembly Member Robert Carroll at: 416 7th Ave. btwn 13th & 14th Sts. All paintings are oil on wood, 8”x8”, done on-site in one session within, or near, the District 44 boundary. To see all of my 2022, 2021 or earlier, plein air paintings go to: https://www.davidnakabayashi.com/plein-air-2022 https://www.davidnakabayashi.com/plein-air-2021 https://www.davidnakabayashi.com/plein-air-archive Or follow the links in my bio. For inquiries about these paintings contact @440gallery. Thanks to Joy Makon for coordinating. (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqdWclbszLW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Handcrafted artist book, collage, ink & gouache on paper, 2 pages - 7 3/8” x 10”, 2023 It’s always curious to me how my “family reunion” images end up with everyone standing around not really interacting. #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLJwEzs1k5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Handcrafted artist book, collage, ink & gouache on paper, 2 pages - 7 3/8” x 10”, 2023 #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLJVk2sVMX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Handcrafted artist book, collage, ink & gouache on paper, 2 pages - 7 3/8” x 10”, 2023 #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLJKA1Mh9y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Handcrafted artist book, collage, ink & gouache on paper, 2 pages - 7 3/8” x 10”, 2023 While I did manipulate these pages a little they are mostly as I found them in a New Mexico barn. #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLJBNWs9Zl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Handcrafted artist book, collage, ink & gouache on paper, 2 pages - 7 3/8” x 10”, 2023 #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLIshMMEfz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Handcrafted artist book, collage, ink & gouache on paper, 2 pages - 7 3/8” x 10”, 2023 This spread from “Family Reunion” includes photos of family & strangers milling in front of the house I owned in Texas crowned by the dogs I knew who lived or visited there. #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIiW0UMXpw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Family Reunion Book is handmade combining collaged photographs and drawings of family, present and past, as well as strangers. While I will never cut up the best of my collected images (maybe) the question I’m always asking myself is “what did you save all this for?” It certainly wasn’t to sit in a box. And I think of all the trillions of pictures in boxes, and now on hard drives, in America! How weird. And yet I can’t imagine life without them. #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological#bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIVH9lsQP8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Handcrafted artist book, ink & gouache on paper, 2 pages - 7 3/8” x 10”, 2023 #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqGXr2luoNU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Handcrafted artist book, ink & gouache on paper, 2 pages - 7 3/8” x 10”, 2023 #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CqGXbAkuJUk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Handcrafted artist book, ink & gouache on paper, 2 pages - 7 3/8” x 10”, 2023 #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqGWlhUOWPs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Handcrafted artist book, ink & gouache on paper, 2 pages - 7 3/8” x 10”, 2023 #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqGWwmeOLFm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Handcrafted artist book, ink & gouache on paper, 2 pages - 7 3/8” x 10”, 2023 #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqF16z-ME92/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Decades ago I read a book about shamanism in which it was suggested to, while listening to an alpha wave inducing drumbeat, stare into the eyes of an animal, like your dog or cat, and imagine seeing yourself through their eyes. These two new book spreads make me think of that. #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqEIFUsOYMS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

This book of drawings has page after page of strange juxtapositions. The bent-neck deer disciplinarian & a passel of pigs; a Madonna & a smoke-head maiden; two figure models & a squirrel-lady……. It’s all very weird and also very normal: images simply plucked out of my imagination, memory or observation then arranged, this way and that, until “it feels right”. #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDBxwxsxoM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Some of my recent book pages have a Hawaiian theme. I am 1/4 native Hawaiian but was raised in the desert southwest, far from the ocean. And since my parents divorced when I was 7 I’ve only spent time with Hawaiian relatives a few times in my life and in places like, ironically, Las Vegas and Indianapolis. Point is, despite my tentative grasp on Hawaiian identity, it filters into my art regularly, the ocean in general, life in the sea, and, as it does here, the goddess of the volcano. #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #familyphoto #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBro6SL0cq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Finally some more samples from my bookmaking project, which I’m (thankfully) done with for the winter. It is a more complicated task than I always think at the beginning, and since I’m learning my results are mixed (which often feels like a waste). But it’s all just “making”, day after day. I like the drawings, and how they speak to each other. The books have narratives, but ones that are mysterious and oblique, even impenetrable, like all my work. And, it’s been ten years, but I said I would use these Reader’s Digest covers for books of my own, and so I have, dammit! #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #drawings #drawingnow #workonpaper #contemporarydrawing #gouache #gouachepainting #inkdrawing #ink #figuredrawing #humanfigure #nudedrawing #foundphoto #familyphoto #surrealism #americanlandscape #collage #narrativeart #hybridcreature #tableau #mythological #bookmaking #artistbook #artbook #brooklynartist (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp7_JUbrAK4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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