At the NYBG
Monday, May 20th, 2013A watercolor/gouache/pencil drawing made at the New York Botanical Garden. One of my favorite places to visit in the spring.
A watercolor/gouache/pencil drawing made at the New York Botanical Garden. One of my favorite places to visit in the spring.
Spring is here in NYC, and that means Union Square is hopping. Made this quick drawing while waiting to meet the students of my last Pratt Location Drawing class this semester. What a great group, I was sorry to see the class end. Posted by Veronica
A drawing made in Jackson Heights, NYC, my new home base!
Click HERE to read about it on my blog.
Posted by Veronica Lawlor

A model drawing made with the ”Magic” pencil! Multi colors – you never know what’s going to come out!
I had such a nice time last Tuesday at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden with my location drawing class that I brought Neil back on Saturday to see the garden in bloom. And boy, was it ever! More cherry trees were blossoming, along with magnolias, forsythias, daffodils, and a beautiful variety of tulips. Heavenly! We sat on a bench for a while and Neil drew while I played with watercolors. Did a little landscape study, above. Been thinking about watercolor painting in earnest the last few weeks, as I just finished the manuscript for our next Studio 1482 book: One Watercolor A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity Using Watercolor, Pattern, and Design. It’s the same kind of experiential book as One Drawing A Day, this time focused on one of my favorite mediums: watercolor. I really enjoyed writing it and even did a few color studies for the first few exercises, as did everyone else in the studio. Hope you can check it out, it’s available for pre-order right now on Amazon.com – click HERE for the link.
Happy week everyone – if it’s spring where you are, hope you are enjoying it as much as I am!
posted by Veronica Lawlor

I decided to grace the blog once again with Kika The Beautiful! Remembering a great drawing afternoon!
Yes, spring is finally here in New York City, and we are so happy to see her! I took my Location Drawing class from Pratt Institute to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens today, you should see the drawings they made! Great group! And I managed to steal 15 minutes for a little cup of coffee and a quick watercolor of this cherry blossom tree. It’s a little more orangey than pinky, but I like the effect, it feels right. And I’m loving this paper – Arches rough finish, it’s so luscious! Enjoy the sunshine, fellow New Yorkers!
posted by Veronica Lawlor
PS Speaking of watercolor…more news on that soon…

Aaahhh…..Kika the Beautiful! A wonderful model that we have been drawing for many years, incredible lady to draw and converse with while she is modeling! She’s so culturally oriented that her conversations as well as her “costumes” are pretty global and mythical. As I said, aaaaahhhhh, lovely! Thanks, Kika!
Drawing of a boy. Ipad, Auryn Ink App. ~Despina


These are some drawings I made one time at the NY Aquarium. I love watching jellyfish move. When I was growing up in St. Thomas there were some jellyfish that would show up at Magens Bay on particularly hot days, which means pretty frequently! I didn’t wish to get stung by any of them but I couldn’t resist watching them swim around in the water. Sometimes a little one would touch my leg, but they weren’t really harmful, not like the big guys! Anyway, they were beautiful to watch as they pulsated through the beautiful blue water.
About 10 years ago I spent a lot of time walking all around the city drawing just to draw. Here is one from that time.
Took the opportunity the other day to draw some of my fellow E-train riders. The woman on the right was very suspicious of me…she didn’t seem sure of what I was doing, but she knew she didn’t like it! The lady on the left was engrossed with her smart phone…similar to the woman in Margaret’s post yesterday. It’s an epidemic…
Please visit my blog to see more drawings of last week’s post on Nick Cave’s Heard NY in Grand Central. Thanks!
Posted by Veronica Lawlor

This scene cracked me up! Two commuters, I believe they were friends, were on the bus going uptown. She was directing her conversation to him and he was plugged into his iphone, completely oblivious to her conversation! Wait, you have to be exchanging words and thoughts to be having a conversation, right? So I guess this was a monologue…they were both oblivious to each other’s existence!