In response to the recent terrible earthquake in Japan and the tsunamis in the Pacific, the illustrators of Studio 1482 have each created a piece of art to raise  money on behalf of the victims.

Your gift to the American Red Cross will support our disaster relief efforts to help those affected by the earthquake in Japan and tsunami throughout the Pacific. On those rare occasions when donations exceed American Red Cross expenses for a specific disaster, contributions are used to prepare for and serve victims of other disasters. (From their website.)

To participate: please click here for a link to the American Red Cross website. When you receive your donation receipt via email, forward that email along with your choice of illustration print to info@studio1482.com. (Please note: only the last four digits of your credit card number will be visible on the receipt.)

Once we receive the confirmation email, your print or original art of choice* will be sent to you. Please allow up to two weeks for delivery.

Thank you for joining in our effort to help.

Sincerely,

The illustrators of Studio 1482

PLEASE INDICATE YOUR CHOICE OF ILLUSTRATION BELOW BY TITLE AND/OR ILLUSTRATOR:

Art by Eddie Pena

“Strength” by Margaret Hurst

“From the Heart” by Michele Bedigian

Art by Dominick Santise

“Cherry Blossoms” by Greg Betza

“Hope” by Veronica Lawlor

“Perseverance”  by Kati Nawrocki

“The Waking Nai No Kami” by Despina Georgiadis

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…

I love drawing so much that I will take any opportunity to make a sketch of my surroundings. This is one that I made at the Orlando International Airport. I’ll post the second one of these next week…

Another drawing from my visit to Disney World, of American folk singers performing standards in the lobby of the American pavillion. I am an immigrant to this country, so this kind of stuff makes me a little emotional, and the music was also quite beautiful…

This is another drawing from my visit to Orlando last month. It’s a view of Liberty Square in the American section of the Magic Kingdom. I just couldn’t resist contrasting the historical symbols (like the liberty tree) with the contemporary image of, ahem, corpulent tourists munching on funnel cakes…

This is a pen and ink drawing of tourists I did on location at the Animal Kingdom in Florida last month. I was fascinated by textures and marks that day, and admit I was relieved when only one of the subjects wanted to see the drawing…

This is a quick drawing I did at the Robyne show last saturday at Radio City Music Hall – I will post a review and more drawings and shots of it soon on my music blog, musikati.

This was the opening act, a single guy with a keyboard (and at times guitar) performing his strange pastiche of glam rock, Devo and club-kid-drag-queen (with a sweatband). It was kind of terrible, yet fascinating at the same time…

by Kati Nawrocki

When recently attending  a classical concert I was quite amused by the triangle player, who every twenty minutes or so leaped to his feet to add his anti-climactic twinkle to the music. It reminded me of a song by Austrian satirist Georg Kreisler, in which a highly accomplished musician bitterly contemplates his instrument (which “can’t even be tuned”) while endlessly waiting for his turn.

The fragrant deliciousness of California organic fruits pretty much defies description, and the ripe apricots I bought at the Culver City farmer’s market were best in show. This a chalk sketch I did of a middle-aged local assessing some of the goodies at that stand. -KATI

History has told… there’s nothing we can’t do!

Happy New Year Everyone! -  Warm regards, Kati

… Because some trees are still up, and not all cookies have been eaten yet… This drawing of a Christmas tree cookie is from the same series as the drawing of the “snowy clock” at Grand Central. It’s a study for a children’s book I am currently working on.

This is one of about two thousand drawings I’ve done of my beloved fellow-New Yorkers. I love drawing people, especially extreme ones, and nowhere are folks more who they are than in the big apple! This couple was shopping at Rockefeller Center, if I recall correctly.

-Kati

Drawing by Kati

A new drawing of one of the NYRO cellists. This bamboo pen is by far the worst I’ve ever used, it barely takes in any ink and does not improve when sharpened, but I admit it’s kind of fun to take on the challenge and just kind of wrestle drawings out of it anyway. I love this man’s face…

Ink drawing of main cellist at a concert rehearsal. to see more drawings from that set, please visit my regular blog

If you like music and are interested in reading reviews of live shows and seeing art done on the spot at shows, please consider following my blog musikati.blogspot.com or follow me on twitter @musikati

Here is another watercolor drawing from that lovely German Halloween show in Brooklyn. If you want to read the full review, please visit my music blog and consider following me on twitter @musikati and thanks for the support!

Here is a drawing from a watercolor set I did at a very special Halloween show in Brooklyn last sunday. It featured a performance by German superstar- pop-band Sportfreunde Stiller. You can see more art from that evening and read a full review on my blog

There is something alluringly inpenetrable about seafaring towns. Perhaps it is that air of  magic that comes with being so intimately entwined with the rhythms of nature, with death, the weather, and God, a breathing in and out of time, where days become years, and generations contract into a single moment. I delight in following the clues that beckon the seeker, the chains, crosses, and anchors that tell their symbolic tales, imagining their implications  interwoven into a net of humanity.

I made this drawing on a miserably cold day, unable to resist the sheer grandiosity of the image, and if you pay attention, you can follow my reasoning through the lines of the art and the notes.