Did you know that O'Sensei Urban loved Art work. When he lived in New York he would create and sell some of his work. Well it's true. Many  times when I visited O'Sensei at his Crosby Street DoJo, after class we would go downstairs into the basement of his DoJo. He had a part-time job with his landlord where he would stock shelves with new inventory, as well as make repairs on the building; doing this help cut the cost of his rent. His landlord had all kinds of inventory,  including a lot of art material like paints, brushes, art canvas and lots of other goodies, part of his job was to clean up and throw a lot of these items away. One night Sensei asked me if I like to finger paint, he kind of caught me by surprise. I said the last time I finger painted was in school,  like in the second grade, he laughed and said well we are going to do it now. He took a piece of canvas and all colors of paints;  he then took both hands and began to finger paint in all directions, he did this for 10 minutes or so. When he was finished he asked me what I see, I looked at the painting for a minute or so. I stated I see a couple of things, I see a monkey in shrubbery, I also see a butterfly off to the right of the monkey. He laughed and said it will sell. If you are familiar with Canal Street its right around the corner from Crosby Street. Well anyhow on Canal Street they sell all sorts of things as well as buy different items. The next day Sensei and I went around to Canal Street and he sold the finger painting for $55. I personally thought that this was a pretty good profit for things that he was going to throw in the trash for his landlord. Sensei had told me a story where he sold one of his paintings for $300; he said in New York some will buy anything that looks abstract. Now you know the story why O'Sensei did a a lot of abstract art work on his news letters to catch our attention. Everyone loves art work. Browse through O'Sensei Urban's art work below and enjoy.

Sincerely Shihan,

        Ed. Verycken