Tag Archives: New York City

Drawn From Memory

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Wilson

Posted in ART, blog art, personal, THE FABRIC OF HOME, Things I made | Tagged desktop, drawing from memory, Hassidic tour, New York City, shalom, welcome in my kitchen | Leave a comment

TRAVEL DIARY | Autumn Colors In Brooklyn

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Wilson

View from window in Bedford Stuyvesant last Tuesday. Image by wilson tichelaar©

Posted in ART, blog art, CREATIVE CAREERS, mumson, personal, Things I made | Tagged 2019, artist, Brooklyn, city trip, color, diary, Eye, Holiday, houses, inspiration, Mother and son, New York City, NYC, tape, wilson tichelaar, work | Leave a comment

Chinatown Red & Union Square Typography

Posted on January 13, 2019 by Wilson

Posted in DESTINATION HAPPINESS, PHOTOGRAPHY, THE FABRIC OF HOME, Things I made, work | Tagged burnt, chart, Chinatown, city, color, color guide, color inspiration, digital, facade, houses, New York City, Paint, red, reds, reflection, Street art, terra, terracotta, text, Typography, USA, warm | Leave a comment

Great expectations

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Wilson

A tune for everyone not giving up the day job just yet. {Take the A train – from Melinda and Melinda by Duke Ellington and his orchestra}

Posted in CREATIVE CAREERS, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, FILM, MUSIC | Tagged A train, commuting, daily, Duke Ellington, film, Jazz, life, Melina and Melinda, Music, New York City, Take the A train, train, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

Painted On Canvas We are like children We’re painted on canvases Picking up shades as we go We start off with gesso brushed on by people we know Watch your technique as you go Step back and admire my view Can … Continue reading →

Posted in (B)OOST, ART, CREATIVE CAREERS, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, TEXT | Tagged African American, Archibald Motley, ART, blue, choice, civil rights, Collage, color, experience, gesso, Gregory Porter, Harlem Renaissance, Jazz, life, New Negro Movement, New York City, Painted on canvas, painting, peace, poetry, portraiture, Romare Bearden, view | 1 Comment

From sex to abstract

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Wilson

In the post Stages of Daily Life the last picture shows a painting on the wall behind the desk, which reminded me of a once favourite painter: Christopher Wool. I can’t pin this one down to him, but it looks like … Continue reading →

Posted in CREATIVE CAREERS, TEXT | Tagged Apocalypse Now, ART, Boymans van Beuningen, Christopher Wool, daily life, Huck Magazine, inspiration, New York, New York City, painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Taschen, text, Wool | 3 Comments

Exciting Boat Stories

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Wilson

I am a huge fan of the work of Maira Kalman, and bought this book for our son when he was still little, too little to understand exactly what it was about. Of course it’s about a fireboat, but this … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, Education, Illustration, KIDS ART, mumson, REVIEW, TEXT, THE FABRIC OF HOME | Tagged ambition, boats, children's books, Fireboat, Gouden Boekje, illustration, influencer, John J. Harvey, Life lessons, Maira Kalman, New York, New York City, Sloffie Sleepboot, the stories that matter, tug | Leave a comment

Google Art is great

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Wilson

I have just discovered The Google Arts Project, and I wonder how I will get out of the house today! More than 200 museums from around the world have uploaded 40.000 works of art so far, and I could easily … Continue reading →