Long Ride Home (Friday, 4-3-09)

Green suit on the 1.

The uptown side at Chambers street, but the Uptown express rolled in and erased my composition so...

I found another one on the benches on my platform.

After a 2 drawing wait at Chambers, it was on to the 2.

Man with very dark, inset eyes grooving to some tunes, golf shirt just poking out of his green coat. Man with unique profile cutting a tough guy glance through the packed car.

Woman who was white as you could be with just a few hints of pink tones in her cheek, eyelids and lips standing at the focal point for the pressure building up to the mass exodus off at Atlantic Ave.

Quickie of young woman on the R who's bangs flew down sharply like daggers from an impressive bun a top her head.

Wednesday, 3-11-09 - Brooklyn Bound

Waiting on the 1 at Houston, she had a pretty impressive hair bun.

Sweaty dude leaning back on the 1 and the the switch to the 2. The woman reading was lounging and reading in a posture more often observed in a parisian sidewalk cafe then on the 2 train to Brooklyn.

It seems as if looking over my drawings that the demographic of subway riders is heavily majority female. Never really thought about it but I have so many drawings which are all women - not the individual portraits maybe but when I do the group shot. Gonna investigate, maybe Dick Ravitch knows.