Happy Halloween! This drawing is from last year’s Halloween parade in New York’s Greenwich Village. Fellow Studio 1482 member Margaret Hurst and I went down to draw the proceedings. What fun! You can see more of these drawings on my blog entry from last year here. Trick or treat everyone! – Veronica

These are two faces/portraits from the construction site I drew at a few years ago.  I’d like to introduce Vinny and Tuna.  Tuna’s real name is Charles, hence Charlie, hence Charlie the Tuna, hence Tuna.  Tuna is a great guy.  He gave me cardboard to sit on instead of the cold, hard sidewalk.  Vinny was [...]

I can dream of Santorini ’til Christmas if I want to, why not?
Our main destination on this day was the beautiful, beautiful village of Oia. Did I mention it was beautiful? By the time we got there though, it was about 1 o’clock(that’s around the time the natives take a siesta and stay out of [...]

Here is a drawing I made while having a coffee and French pastry downtown near Wall Street. This little place called the Financier Patisserie became a frequent stop for me during my mid-afternoon crash. These two men were having a debate and though I couldn’t  hear a word, I just watched the body language and [...]

An a-ha moment at the Hayden Planetarium I’ll never forget.

This past week I was working on the beginnings of a new book project studying, hunting, and enjoying every inch of the museum when I came across a group of five year olds. There they were, (ironically five of them) all magnetically drawn to this [...]

Eddie Peña

The idea that you can have a potential garden in a paper envelope blows my mind. It is not a garden–yet. Can you get any more life-affirming than that? I remember little baggies bursting with the promise of tiny sweet carrots from the window sill (miraculous!!), or carefully tended, never-quite mature cucumbers or flowers. And [...]

Recently I presented my MA thesis work at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America. A three day conference of people from different disciplines of learning, all discussing how semiotics – the science of signs – influences our world. There were philosophers, doctors, literary types, linguists, artists, environmentalists, psychologists, physicists, nuns, anthropologists [...]

This is a game at Columbia that Ronnie and I went to together.  We had a great time and it was great watching the women play B Ball.  There were a couple of pretty intense players.  What a great afternoon we had at Columbia!