Categoryâ€¢ Dominick

Something Fell this week

I forget where I was when I heard that Autumn started this week, but it made me very happy. Every season has its beauty, but fall is just so rich to me. Thinking of getting back to the watercolor series I did while working on One Watercolor a Day last year around this time. â€”Dominick

That doesn’t look like me

Everyone is a critic, even a 3-year old. Actually, especially a 3-year old.â€”Dominick

The Ship Hands

Another early piece from the work done for the Dalvero Academy show at Mystic Seaport, Restoring a Past, Charting a Future, that came down last week. This was one of the first prints I did in the process of working on the piece that eventually went on display. I played around with block, screen, and […]

From another time and place

The first time I saw the Morgan on land it was a rather other worldly experience. She (ships are always a she even if it is named after a he, right?) looked as though she had just landed and was taking over the planet. Or at least a small inlet on the Mystic River in […]

Amazing Feat

The feet were pretty good too, but the fact that it is noon and I am awake is the true test. Some sugary coffee, a lot of fruit and crossing my fingers that today will end much earlier than yesterday.â€”Dominick

My Old Job

Another drawing from the print shop a few weeks ago. Had I stayed on the job long enough, maybe I would have gotten to run the presses, but by the time I ventured out of the family business I was working this machine. It had several functionsâ€”rewinder, slitter, inspectorâ€”all basically to make the product look […]

The best root beer float ever

Following up from last weeks one day adventure to Disneyland, I thought I would post a quick drawing I did while waiting the fireworks to start. Obviously I liked the root beer floats. Maybe it was being in the original park, maybe it was that I hadn’t been to see Mickey in many years, or […]

Just like home

It is hard to explain the differences in how it felt to enter the park in Disneyland. I only had a day on a recent vacation to California, and I it wasn’t all for me. Kids apparently love the place too. Go figure. Unlike my children, I didn’t step foot into a Disney park until […]

Mounting a plate

For those who don’t know, I grew up in a print shop. I have never not known printing as a family business and I am sure it has fed every visual pursuit that I have had as well as shaped every interest and business decision as a freelancer. Most people know offset printing and fine […]

A (not so) quiet moment

As the Charles W. Morgan was being lowered back into the water a few weeks ago, behind the big crowd of supporters and spectators, and as everyone was moving around congratulating everyone else, one man stood quietly watching the ship lower inch by inch over the 18 minutes or so it took for her to […]

The ship was glowing

As you have probably figured out already last Sunday several of us in the Studio traveled with the Dalvero members toÂ draw the relaunching of the Charles W. Morgan, in Mystic, CT. It has been fantastic to be a small part its history (visitÂ www.dalveromystic.com for more details). As the various speakers made their turn […]

A Beautiful weekend

Spent a beautiful weekend documenting the Charles W. Morgan during its launching after being under restoration for over 4 years. Caught Shipyard Director Quentin Snediker walking past the Morgan the day before the 172 anniversary of her first launching.â€”Dominick

A little work

Having fun doing some rough thumbnails for storyboards I am working on for an upcoming movie project.â€”Dominick

Last minute addition

I won’t say I forgot, I just forgot what day it was. All of my alerts went off yesterday, yet this morning I had yet to post a new drawing. I quickly grabbed this one from Grand Central. I caught these two having pizza while waiting for a train.I was waiting for a train, they […]

Three’s a crowd

I couldn’t see this woman’s partner hidden behind another subway rider, but it was obvious they wanted to be as far from the man sitting next to them as possible. In fact they wanted to have the train to themselves it seemed.â€”Dominick

American Rose

As I work away on the yard, I found this little thumbnail from DC a few months ago. Have a great week. Stay cool if you can.â€”Dominick

The pile grows

The truth is I don’t reach for watercolor when I work most often. I use it all the time, but not really in a “pure” sense of the medium. It is usually mixed heavily with caran d’ache crayons (water soluble of course) or anything else I have in my bag at the time. So when […]

Another Tuesday

These two were completely annoyed with one other as the train bounced them together at every possible moment.â€”Dominick

A substitute

I know most of us would probably say that our days do not go as planned. Or maybe it is just me. If I accomplish a fraction of what I set out to on most days, I would usually be pretty happy. Today in the midst of assignments and deadlines, the projects took a back […]

Oh what a week

To say this has not been the best of weeks is to put it mildly. I’ll spare the details. In the midst of it all, when my attention could last more than five minutes at a time, I was working on the layouts for One Watercolor A Day. The book looks beautiful. In the meantime, […]