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Gavin Snider

Gavin Snider

@gavinsnider.bsky.social

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Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Jul 15

Two paintings from the edge of the forest, looking in and looking up. July in the Catskills.

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Jul 10

At the edge of the woods, the gravel road is a blue dash. Sunlight catches on the tree trunks, sends purple shadows twisting on thick bark.

Paint the forest floor with palette gray, the muddy mix of leftover watercolor molded into dirt and rock and fallen leaves.

A watercolor painting of a Catskill Mountains landscape.

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Jul 8

Summer at Aurora Brooklyn, and green vines climb the fence and cover the red brick walls of the outdoor patio.

On the corner of Grand & Wythe, bike tires roll over pavement, basketballs pound concrete, and people walk toward the Williamsburg waterfront and the ever growing rows of apartment towers.

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Jul 5

Don’t you know? It can be beautiful, sometimes.

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Jul 2

A series of Park Slope brownstones on Seventh Avenue, 9th Street, 2nd Street, and Carroll Street. Some of my favorite watercolor paintings are available now on my website. Link in bio.

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy Canada Day

One Great City!

The Weakerthans · Reconstruction Site · Song · 2003

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Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Jul 1

July 1st in New York City and everyone's AC is being pushed to the absolute limit.

Window units cast shadows on brick walls in even intervals.

You can see them on 15th Street, a hundred sundials on a summer day.

A watercolor painting of an apartment building on 15th street in New York City.

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Jun 29

They pose for pictures and look up at the celestial ceiling.

“There’s the crab. There are the twins.”

“These are shapes they made from all the stars in the sky.”

“They blacked out those windows for air raids during World War II.”

“This must be one of the biggest train stations in the world.”

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Jun 29

Friday morning at Grand Central Terminal. I’m drawing by the ticket booth. Everyone’s trying to get somewhere.

“Two one-way tickets to Poughkeepsie.”

“One ticket to Cold Spring on the Hudson Line.”

“Can you help me? I need to get to New Rochelle, but I’m not coming back ‘til Thursday.”

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molly mary o'brien @missmollymary.bsky.social · May 30

every time i go see live music i think “i love live music”

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 21

I walked back through the park, descended down into the subway, boarded the train, sat down and started to write about my experience. A guy with a violin boarded at the next stop. He immediately broke into Greensleeves. Alright, maybe I’ll never be released.

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 21

Eventually the music man moved on, and we were saved by a power trio on the shore of The Lake playing a perfect, jammy rendition of I Shall Be Released, close harmonies, tight rhythm, melodic guitar solos. “Any way now…any day now. I shall be released.”

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 21

A playlist repeated on someone’s speaker for an hour or so, lite piano versions of the world’s most saccharine songs, Hallelujah, Can You Feel the Love Tonight, and Greensleeves, fine by me, but woefully out of season.

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 21

Bow Bridge was an endless stream of people. Couples posed for engagement photos, or stopped to look out on the lake. Cheers erupted for a successful proposal.
Another couple engaged on the spot.

A girl climbed the railing to peer into the stone flowerpot. “Any eggs up here?”

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 21

Well, it was a hard subject, the light changing, rowboats drifting, trees a mix of buds, bare branches, and the first leaves of the season. I worked it and overworked it and gave a shout of excitement when the sun came around and cast shadows on the curving steel span.

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 21

I walked through Central Park on a warm Saturday morning, past the bubble man and the string quartet and the guy selling hats on the blanket and the girl in her quinceañera dress, hopped a fence, and sat down on a root to paint the Bow Bridge.

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 18

Well they closed the old Blockbuster, then they closed the liquor store inside the old Blockbuster. That's the story of my hometown.

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 17

Logging on to say this is the saddest (and best) song that's ever been written and more people should know it.

Eric Taylor : Peppercorn Tree

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chris walla, corgi command AS @calculizer.bsky.social · Apr 5

rejected artwork. never forget

photograph of the cover of coldplay’s 2002 album ‘a rush of blood to the head’, with ‘death cab for cutie — plans’ scrawled on in black sharpie

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 4

Let's go Mets!

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 2

A few people stopped to talk as I painted.

"There it is. Get your angle."

"We'll check back in an hour. Better reward yourself with a beer after."

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 2

"This is an awesome bar. It’s got an awesome back patio and it’s great and everything’s awesome."

A woman scolded her barking dachshund. "Come on Frank be nice. You’re acting like a puppy."

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 2

I could feel the sea air, cool at my back. A steady stream of cars and Citibikes bumped down the cobblestones of Conover Street. I listened to the conversations of people passing by.

"By the water the air just smells better."

"It’s just one of those places. People like it, you know."

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Apr 2

I walked down to Red Hook on the first warm day of spring. It seemed like the whole city had the same idea I did. Friends lingered around the green truck in front of Sunny’s Bar. I knew that if I waited long enough there would be music inside, musicians gathering for a backroom bluegrass jam.

Gavin Snider @gavinsnider.bsky.social · Mar 30

I have a band called Sad American Night. Our new record Say Goodbye to Brooklyn came out Friday. A lot of hard work went into making these seven songs. We came out bruised and beat up but ultimately better for it. It's been a long time coming, and we're really excited to share it with the world.

Say Goodbye to Brooklyn, by Sad American Night

sadamericannight.bandcamp.com