Ask me about aerial drone work and (i’m a creative kinda guy)…

MY CURRENT STORY: Aerial drone photos, orthomosaics, and mapping! Sorry to say, but I will not be selling any more canvas since the last few Covid years have taken a mighty toll on my business. Thanks to all my customers and all the support I have received over the years. You can inquire about a drone project you have in mind by sending me an email from my contact page. Thanks!

MY EARLY Story:

I grew up helping my dad in his paint store, which was located at the center of SOHO, NYC, at 434 West Broadway, between Prince and Spring Streets. When I was a teenager, in the early '70's, I got to meet lots of the artists in that neighborhood who were around during that time. They bought supplies from my dad, and I would be making deliveries for him, and eventually I got jobs helping some of these artists fix up their lofts, and I even became an artist assistant for some of these up and coming artists. (I was the NY studio assistant for Michael Heizer, when he worked on Mercer Street, and he even brought me out to Nevada to work at his "city" in the desert).

My dad was in his store for so long, he was almost like the unofficial mayor of the neighborhood, and knew everyone in that old commercial, loft space, part of town. They called him Red ('cause of the hair). In 1975, after I graduated from NYU at Washington Square, Red hooked me up with an art professor, Bernard Pfriem, who was living in SOHO. Bernard offered me a job at his art school in Lacoste, France (at that time it was a Sarah Lawrence College program, now it's SCAD). I spent a summer and fall in the Vaucluse, and then moved to Paris with friends I met in Lacoste.

MY NOT SO EARLY STORY:

When I came back to NY, I opened my own art supply store in SOHO, called Greenwich Art Supplies (GAS - just south of Spring Street on Thompson).

At that time, being more of an artist than a businessman, GAS died a painful death some years later after I moved my Thompson Street brick and mortar shop upstairs to a big loft on the corner of Broadway and Houston Streets (611 Broadway, the Cable Building). Along with the area attracting lots of talented people to spruce up the manufacturing and commercial buildings to make art, as I grew to see, this buildup also began to price people out of the neighborhood, as it became more and more desirable.

So time marched on, and a long time later, here I am starting this online venture. I see it not so much as a monetarily motivated thing, but more like a chance to give a small fair shake to some artists and creative people who want to continue creating without breaking the bank.

MY MOST CURRENT STORY:

After many years as an IT specialist for Prudential Financial in NYC, currently, I’m a 30 year resident of Westfield, NJ. And I love flying drones!

Thanks for listening. -Roy                     

Get to know me better…. Raised in NYC, B.S.Ed NYU (1975), DBA Greenwich Art Supplies NYC (1978), USAFRES (1980), AAS TCI (1983), Programmer Astoria Fed S&L (1998), IT specialist at Prudential Bache (1999), TSA (2014), Westfield B of E substitute (2022), WA2XXX ham, Studying drone tech at WCCC (2023), currently a 30 year resident of Westfield, NJ. (See more of my drone work online at MANDYDRONES youtube).