yankee stadium

Every year I have to paint Yankee Stadium and every year I battle the thought as I am not a baseball fan and I never know how to attack the painting and I fret and avoid it until the last minute when I have no choice but to sink or swim. After exploding yellow paint all over my art books I decided to paint outside behind my building in the sun. I think I have solved the Yankee cover for this year which makes me feel better but that is up to the art director and the "powers that be."

coincidence?

EDGAR DEGAS


GARDEGA

I think not!

explosion

Sometimes, when you are under deadline pressure and your primary yellow paint doesnt want to open and you have a really bad headache--- You can squeeze the tube harder to try to unblock the dried paint that is clogging the tube. Hopefully you are standing close to your favorite art books when the bomb goes off. If I had bad "modern art" books I could leave the spattered mess on and call it art.

bronx cover--by gardega

Here is my cover for the bronx yellow pages. It is inspired by art Nouveau and the artist Dulac with a few other influences from my unconscious... This is the Haupt conservatory in the bronx----I recommend a visit....I am working on Yankee stadium now as it is a dual cover (spanish and english)

jupiter--size

if Jupiter was hollow it could hold 1,000 earths...think of that, 1,000 earths

the bronx conservatory

Many people do not realize that in The Bronx is a famous conservatory. I have painted it a few times for book covers. Sometimes art actually teaches you things..I went to my first yankee's game to paint it for a book cover---I took the staten Island ferry for the first time and I went to Bronx zoo as well...

quote of the day

George Edward Woodberry - "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."