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.
View post →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: […]
View post →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.
View post →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”.
View post →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 […]
View post →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 […]
View post →This drawing concludes my little series on Little Dragon concert drawings. It kind of speaks for itself.
View post →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!
View post →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 […]
View post →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.
View post →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…
View post →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…
View post →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…
View post →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…
View post →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…
View post →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 […]
View post →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 […]
View post →… 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.
View post →This pencil and watercolor drawing of the big clock at the heart of Grand Central was part of a series of holiday drawings I did a while back; I’ll share them with you over the next few weeks.
View post →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 […]
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