Oh to be seventeen and prematurely confident again… These young ladies are waiting for a door to open and offer them the opportunity to be seen by their idol du jour. And truth be told, they didn’t mind being sketched in this crucial prelude to their close-up, either. I do hope he blew at least […]
View post →Brit-pop band The Kooks played a super-sold-out show at the Bowery Ballroom, and I had the good fortune of being there and making tons and tons of drawings that evening. This one is of curly-haired  frontman Luke Pritchard and guitarist Hugh Harris. There was a lot of hair to draw that night. The full review […]
View post →The hilarious Eugene Merman (the creepy super from “Flight of the Conchords”) reading us the open letter he wrote to Time Warner Cable after some frustrating (and unfortunately rather typical) scheduling issues. He was warming up the crowd at Brooklyn’s Bell House for his friend Amanda Palmer, who later that night blew our collective minds. […]
View post →This summer I attended a very memorable performance of Moliere’s “The school for husbands” by the New York Classical Theater in Central Park, and this is one of the drawings I did of the farce. There are more drawings of this performance on my website.
View post →Two 1920ies models in beachwear triggering some special memories in a pair of mature (and still stylish) gallery visitors.
View post →A silk embroidered “driving cap” from 1924 that would totally pass for stylish in Williamsburg or the Lower East Side today. Available in goldens and greens.
View post →I had the good fortune to catch the fabulous Sonia Delaunay fashion and textiles show at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum before it closed, and I got even more than I bargained for: Not only were the pieces on display exquisitely wacky and tasteful, but the show turned out to be a magnet for some very […]
View post →I want to share some sketches I did at some recent concerts. This first one is of an artsy Swedish-Asian rock musician named Little Dragon whom I saw at the Bowery Ballroom. If you’re interested in more of my concert reportage drawings, check out my music blog, where I post reviews, photos and drawings of […]
View post →A quick pen and ink sketch of a girl at a café.
View post →A drawing of Williamsburg hipsters having a discussion on the L-train in New York City. The lady on the right was strikingly gorgeous despite the bizarre woolen headscarf her head was wrapped in, and the shaggy guy in the middle had what looked suspiciously like plucked eyebrows.
View post →A man asleep on the New York subway.
View post →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 […]
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