Basilique du Sacré-Cœur. —Dominick
View post →No offense to the local pizza shops in my new home town, but I miss Nicks. Hands down the best pizza in New York City. No slices, but I never had a hard time polishing off 2/3 rds of a pie—and who doesn’t like a slice or two for breakfast the morning after? I pulled […]
View post →I first boarded the Mystic Whaler off the coast of Long Island several years ago on an educational excursion set up by my wife. We took LIRR out to the Long Island Sound and walked to the dock to board the Mystic. I thought we were getting on the Clearwater for one of their ecology […]
View post →Something reminded me of France recently. Something always reminds me of France actually.
View post →The fireboat John J. Harvey erupted in showers of water as it escorted the Quadricentennial flotilla into Newburgh Bay in June, pulling along the docks in Newburgh. The crowd returned with cheers of excitement and applause. I had no idea what I was looking at, but I figured she was another in the long line […]
View post →It took a little while longer for the flotilla to arrive than had been announced. This wasn’t afterall, an airline flight or a train schedule we were waiting for. There were no stars making their way, no dignitaries—nothing that tends to bring people out in crowds like this on a hot late spring day. Making […]
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Just figured it was a good day for a song. Something traditional. A classic. Easily sung along with. Happy Saturday everybody.
View post →If you have ever traveled along then Hudson River in New York, particularly via Metro North Railroad which rides along the river, you may have witnessed an odd looking ship that seems out of place among all the tug boats and tankers that crowd the waters. That vessel may have been the Half Moon, a […]
View post →As I wait for my technologically challenged summer to come to a halt (scanner is on the fritz), I dig deeper in the archives and search for something that means as much now as it it did then. This is one of my favorite drawings from The American Museum of Natural History. This drawing, and […]
View post →One of the many things that makes reportage illustration so amazing is the idea that I can sit anywhere in the world, pull out my pen and ink, and draw. It is some strange hybrid of action drawings, happening, and plein air painting that makes the whole thing breath of life. Six months ago I […]
View post →I have been drawing the Second Avenue Subway construction in New York City for a couple of years now. I haven’t had the time to get to the site lately but I found two drawings that I did and scanned but forgot all about at the beginning of the year. Some days I can’t even […]
View post →A few years ago I found myself on a train in France, on my way to Chartres. I knew nothing of where I was headed. I brought a little reading with me to get familiar and have something to connect with when I arrived. One of the passages I read mentioned fields of gold and […]
View post →Still a week away, but since my next post is not until the 6th and all festivities will have been finished by then, I thought I would wish everyone an early Happy 4th of July. This drawing is from 2006 when I was down in Orlando at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. They […]
View post →Two weeks ago I had the privilege to get close to an old and familiar subject. Up and down the Hudson this summer various communities along the river are taking part in Hudson Celebration 2009 marking the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage up the river that bears his name. Growing up in Newburgh, New […]
View post →OTRA is one hot latin jazz dance band that I saw performing at the Blue Nile in New Orleans. I met Sam Price, the bassist, when I was drawing him performing with another group at a club on Bourbon Street. “You’ve got to come to Frenchman Street and draw!” he said, and drew me a […]
View post →Hi, Margaret here! Last Saturday was National Pigeon Day. There is a gathering of pigeon lovers who extol the wonders and glories of pigeons. I could only stay for a little while, but for the brief time I was there I never saw an actual pigeon! How ironic that there would not be a pigeon at this […]
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