Focus Interruptus

Focus Interruptus

by Marck Webster Post

Conditions: Perfect.  The weather outside is glorious, studio windows are wide open, Music From Big Pink is on “shuffle”, and current drawing has consumed me.  I have been blending violet into a dark indigo.  It a very tedious process but I really like the results.  I have my head inches from the paper and my eyes are pinpointed to the spot where the blending happens, the pencil point barely touches the 80 lb. paper.  This goes on until the shuffled Big Pink ends and Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel (also shuffled) begins.  What a coincidence since the picture I am currently working on is loosely based on this iconic flop-house!

The blending continues.  The violet colored pencil gets shorter and shorter because the frequent sharpening is required. The pencil gets too short to hold so I slip it into an extender, which gets to utilize the pencil down to a little nub.  I’m getting closer to the end of this pencil with more of an area to blend remaining.  It gets that the pencil is now too small to sharpen.  Thank you violet pencil for being such a good violet pencil, but now your job here is complete and one of your violet colleagues will have to take over where you left off.  Into the drawer to fetch yet another violet pencil.  WHAT?!  Let me search some more.  To no avail.  The violet pencil stash is depleted!  How could this be?  I rarely use violet pencils.

As the Mars Hotel shuffles, the Mars Hotel picture will have to wait.  Such perfect conditions to run out to the art store to purchase some violet pencils.

The Pleasure Was All Mine

by Marck Webster Event Post

I was invited to share my artwork with the students of BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services) in Massapequa Park, NY today.  This invitation came unsolicited from an extremely dedicated teacher whose life work is devoted to students with multiple physical and developmental disabilities. She had told me that the children would be thrilled to see my work and to meet a “real artist”. I must admit I was a bit intimidated. Since I was such a scaredy cat I brought along my friend and educator, Maureen. The first student I met was a young man named Anthony. He was also an artist and he stayed with us as we had our lunch, by the way in my honor. As the day went on and I got to meet other students, my heart went out to them, the teachers and aides, and their loved ones.  How many times did I thank God for my blessings! Maureen took many photos of our interactions with the kids which were intended for sharing on this site but I think I will just keep them for my own. Let me just say that I was invited to exhibit my artwork for the benefit of the students, but on the contrary, today selfishly was for me.

 

 

My Favorite Color

by Marck Webster Post

marck drawing It seems that after all the pictures I’ve seen and drawn,  after all the psychedelic light shows I’ve seen,  after all the Techno-Color movies I’ve viewed,  after all the sunrises and sunsets I’ve witnessed,  after all the shades and tones in the spectrum have been admired and analyzed,  it seems that my favorite color is Tie-Dye!

Making My New Bed.

by Marck Webster Post

I never was any kind of genius, especially in the new tech world we all live in, but I have managed to keep my self a step or two behind the eggheads that I truly admire. The fact that I am actually logged in to this new web site with all it’s…HOLY S#IT! A flock of honking geese just flew over my house.  They were so loud they set off my annoying neighbor’s car alarm. Oh wait. Maybe the car alarm is in response to the car-booster who has been lurking the area for the last couple of weeks, according to the local newsrag. No, the cars look secure, it must have been the geese. Here it is January and these freakin’ geese are just now flying south?  Whaddayathink, Mr. Gore? It is rather balmy. I am still in shorts. Oh well, maybe I’ll tune in to Al Jazeera for the local weather report.

Anyway, I’m sure I’ll eventually find my way around all the different areas accessible on this new site. I hope to be seeing you here as well. They say “Change is good”. And my Grandmom Susie used to say, “They” are “nobody in particular, but everyone in general”.

Welcome to MarckWebster.com

Welcome to MarckWebster.com

by adminMW Post

Welcome to the abstract world of  Marck Webster.

Award winning, Long Island artist, Marck Webster has been creating artwork in various forms throughout his life. However it was not until his retirement from the NYPD in March of 2006 that he began to create abstract drawings as a full time passion.

A product of the mind expanding 1960’s Marck’s influences range from Alton Kelley and Stanley “Mouse” Miller to Peter Max and Arno . His work involves explosive colors that melt into a singular vision, allowing the viewer to connect and invent their own meaning.