This summer I attended a very memorable performance of Moliere’s “The school for husbands” by the New York Classical Theater in Central Park, and this is one of the drawings I did of the farce. There are more drawings of this performance on my website.
Two 1920ies models in beachwear triggering some special memories in a pair of mature (and still stylish) gallery visitors.
A silk embroidered “driving cap” from 1924 that would totally pass for stylish in Williamsburg or the Lower East Side today. Available in goldens and greens.
I had the good fortune to catch the fabulous Sonia Delaunay fashion and textiles show at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum before it closed, and I got even more than I bargained for: Not only were the pieces on display exquisitely wacky and tasteful, but the show turned out to be a magnet for some very eccentric ladies…
I want to share some sketches I did at some recent concerts. This first one is of an artsy Swedish-Asian rock musician named Little Dragon whom I saw at the Bowery Ballroom. If you’re interested in more of my concert reportage drawings, check out my music blog, where I post reviews, photos and drawings of shows around New York City.
A quick pen and ink sketch of a girl at a café.
A drawing of Williamsburg hipsters having a discussion on the L-train in New York City. The lady on the right was strikingly gorgeous despite the bizarre woolen headscarf her head was wrapped in, and the shaggy guy in the middle had what looked suspiciously like plucked eyebrows.
A man asleep on the New York subway.
This is the first of a few drawings I’ll be posting of people on the New York subway. This one is of a young lady reading on the F-train to the Lower East Side in Manhattan.
This Memorial Day weekend I decided to head to what I semi-sarcastically refer to as “Hipster Beach”. Tattooed and pierced Brooklynites bike out to the ocean, oil up their carefully manicured hairy chests, and frolic in the dunes, slipping the occasional ironic bluecollar beer or handrolled cigarette. But this year there was a new trend: Everywhere I looked, there were oodles of topless women! It was like witnessing the winner of an epic struggle flaunt its spoils: Hipsterdom had bested its own Puritanical roots to become flesh in almost Euro proportions. Happy Summer, everyone! 
This is the last drawing I’m posting here from my Rome trip which I did in the cab from the airport to capture what I was seeing hundred-fold on the streets around me: chain-smoking locals crammed into sardine cans traversing a breathtakingly beautiful landscape.
An impromptu drawing of breakfast at the magnificent, lovely, opulent St. Regis in Rome. In the background you can see the enormous lobby with its baroque décor which an extremely fancy version of what a friend of mine used to call a “plumber’s nightmare”.
This is another drawing from my trip to Rome. I had an hour to kill before departing to the airport, and decided to spend my remaining euros at the local “Cafe Bar” across the street from my hotel. The drawing kept growing, and the owner (pictured not very flatteringly with the upturned collar in the middle) was very gracious and had the grumpy girl behind the counter fix me a coffee (an espresso) on the house.
On my recent travels to Rome I took the time to do a little drawing, and this is my favorite one of that trip: One of the shady “gladiators” outside the Colosseum. He and his collegues were not overly thrilled at my attentions, so I had to do the sketch as fast as I could and get out of there…
This drawing concludes my little series on Little Dragon concert drawings. It kind of speaks for itself.
This is another drawing from the Little Dragon show where you can see some of the theatrics of her performance, which featured a graphic backdrop which clashed beautifully with her dress. I love the Bowery Ballroom, it’s such a great venue!
When I visited the Shinto shrines of Kyoto a few years back I admired what looked like unseasonably early blossoms on rows and rows of trees. It wasn’t until I approached I realized they weren’t flowers at all, but prayers that had been artfully tied to the otherwise barren branches. I never forgot the perfect union of spirit and nature I felt that day, and the puzzled admiration it kissed awake in my heart.
Being of Japanese descent I have often searched my features and heart for clues to this strange and forever-foreign culture, yearning be united with this piece of myself. The morning I heard news of the earthquake my heart stopped…
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It’s hard to resist drawing a little girl in a princess dress, especially when she is croutching among flowers, absorbed in their beauty. As seen at the English Garden.
Another drawing I did at the Orlando airport of some fellow travelers. I tried to capture both the potted Floridian palm trees and the generic, low-energy atmosphere of this rather generic airport…
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