To say that I find joy in picking a spot, sitting down and drawing is an understatement. It is like no other experience that I can compare. Part social analysis, part cultural happening—a study in shapes and patterns, motion and line—it is easy to get lost in the reportage. There is so much that comes […]
View post →Did a quick drawing while waiting for lunch on Stone Street and thinking of the first settlers in lower Manhattan. Narrow streets and “tall” buildings make it all very European. —Dominick
View post →Not as much of an event as the May Day Protests, but Union Square is always one of the best spots in New York for people watching and of course spending some time drawing. I found myself with a few hours to kill, an unusual event as of late, and nearby one of my favorite […]
View post →It rained much of my time in London, poured many days. So when the sky’s broke and the sun was shining I found myself at the end of the Millennium Bridge with St. Paul’s Cathedral in the background. Didn’t get as many drawings done as I would have liked, but I certainly laid the plans […]
View post →I’ve been to London once before, and while I am here now by the end of the day I will be back in NY and little time will have passed. It is amazing how spans of time can come or go, dragging on or flying by. Seems like yesterday I landed. Thanks to Stafford […]
View post →I have loved parades for as far back as I can remember—on the television, on the sidelines, blocks away—there is always something that seems so magical about so many different types of people celebrating in unity. The pageantry of the next honored participant, gazed at by young and old along the edges, overflowing into […]
View post →Growing up I never thought of myself as a fantasy loving person. My guess is that I really didn’t know what it was exactly. I confused sci-fi and fantasy and didn’t know how to separate them, and to me sci-fi was an alien movie for some reason. Obviously as time went on I learned the […]
View post →It had been some time since I was in Disney proper—pen and pad in hand and a bag of drawing materials on my back. And it had been some time since I just had the day to draw, nothing else. No emails, no phone calls, no other schedules. Eating even became a second thought. Yes, it […]
View post →In honor of the vast numbers of little Wild Kratt kids absorbing all the animal knowledge they can on this fine Saturday, a few elephants for scientific observation. Just a subtle turn of the head and shift of the leg and the whole dimension of the space they take up changes. Had a blast on […]
View post →The sweet melodious song carries me away as I stand in front with pen in hand loving every ounce of this special moment. Yes!!! – Michele Mexico in Epcot
View post →Spending a few days in Florida drawing with Dalvero. Yesterday couldn’t have been a better reminder of the heat and rain and general overall weather that only Mickey and crew can make you forget. Magic doesn’t begin to describe it. —Dominick
View post →Film III Yellow to be exact, but that is not story. I found myself drawing alongside my father the other day, oddly enough 2 years to the day I started documenting him. I pulled up to the shop a “little while” after he did. I couldn’t hear the presses running so I knew I was […]
View post →I found myself sitting around a table, in the aftermath of seven 8-year olds, with palettes full of paint and an empty canvas. In the five minutes before the skies broke and a storm rained down I drew the closest model sitting on the ground unaware of my actions.—Dominick
View post →Until this day I had never had the desire to ride in a basket (bread goes in a basket, not people), but as the mass of balloons floated over my head at the Dutchess County Balloon Festival and the last one appeared above the heads of the crowds as it was inflated, I found myself […]
View post →Another drawing from last weeks Drawing Social. —Dominick
View post →Had a great time last night at the Dalvero Drawing Social. Thank you to Ronnie and Margaret for bringing everyone together.—Dominick
View post →A quick drawing from a few months back.—Dominick
View post →I have had little visitors to the studio lately, who have been painting and working as if they owned the place. Sun, seahorses, and “your paints” is all the younger one ask.—Dominick
View post →I found myself working on an old project yesterday and time just melted away. While everyone was fleeing for a long weekend I found my own space and simply painted. I had no time limit but in my head I would move along in about an hour. Nearly three hours later I looked at the […]
View post →Thank you to Veronica for initiating and setting up the fundraiser on behalf of Studio 1482. Our hearts go out to the families of the thousands of victims of this horrible disaster. If you would like to join Studio 1482 in contributing to the relief efforts please see below. ________________________________ A Response to a Terrible Tragedy […]
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