I’m so used to getting yelled at by the personnel of the Met Museum in NYC that it was a borderline surreal experience to visit the Louvre in Paris, where the guards are supernaturally friendly, and the collection putsany new world museum to shame (sorry, no exceptions). What a boon for those lucky Parisians, and […]
View post →Happy Halloween! This drawing is from last year’s Halloween parade in New York’s Greenwich Village. Fellow Studio 1482 member Margaret Hurst and I went down to draw the proceedings. What fun! You can see more of these drawings on my blog entry from last year here. Trick or treat everyone! – Veronica
View post →These are two faces/portraits from the construction site I drew at a few years ago. Â I’d like to introduce Vinny and Tuna. Â Tuna’s real name is Charles, hence Charlie, hence Charlie the Tuna, hence Tuna. Â Tuna is a great guy. Â He gave me cardboard to sit on instead of the cold, hard sidewalk. Â Vinny was […]
View post →Here is a drawing I made while having a coffee and French pastry downtown near Wall Street. This little place called the Financier Patisserie became a frequent stop for me during my mid-afternoon crash. These two men were having a debate and though I couldn’t hear a word, I just watched the body language and […]
View post →An a-ha moment at the Hayden Planetarium I’ll never forget. This past week I was working on the beginnings of a new book project studying, hunting, and enjoying every inch of the museum when I came across a group of five year olds. There they were, (ironically five of them) all magnetically drawn to this […]
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View post →The idea that you can have a potential garden in a paper envelope blows my mind. It is not a garden–yet. Can you get any more life-affirming than that? I remember little baggies bursting with the promise of tiny sweet carrots from the window sill (miraculous!!), or carefully tended, never-quite mature cucumbers or flowers. And […]
View post →This is a game at Columbia that Ronnie and I went to together. Â We had a great time and it was great watching the women play B Ball. Â There were a couple of pretty intense players. Â What a great afternoon we had at Columbia!
View post →Here is a drawing I did this time of year at the Bronx Zoo in NY. It is an incredible place and a real escape from the city. These wild dogs really made an impression on me. Though I was fortunate to have the opportunity to experience them, I do wish they were running free. […]
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View post →A few years ago I was lucky enough to attend a performance by the great blues singer, Dr. John, at a small venue in the East 60’s in Manhattan. There he was in all his purple velvet glory, belting them out in a little chic enclave with tapestry wallpaper and crystal chandeliers. I loved the […]
View post →Another Central Park dance skater gone wild! Â It happens…a lot. Â They can’t seem to help themselves. Â They just have to go a little nuts now and then and I’m more than happy to be there watching and drawing when it happens! Â Keep going wild, and I promise, I’ll keep drawing!
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View post →Don’t ask me what made me bring pastels on vacation to Germany with me (one guess how Germans reacted to the artist dragging the billowing chalk dust cloud wherever she went). This is a sketch i made in almost complete darkness in another one of Ludwig II’s lairs, this time of the golden boat floating […]
View post →One of the wonderful things about living in NYC is that opportunities come up to attend musical and cultural events. This is from a concert I had the good fortune to hear at Carnegie Hall. I love drawing musicians and performers; they get lost in the moment and the music and are so totally engrossed…the […]
View post →Hy-dran-ge-a: Â New Latin “water vessel” : HYDRO- +Greek angos, vessel, pitcher. The hydrangea is my favorite flower and it’s in full bloom all over the city: in Central Park, in beautiful ceramic pots in front of high rises and in window boxes in front of old brownstones! Â I don’t know why I love it so, […]
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 →The bizarre wooden castle “Schachenhaus” sits atop an Alpine mountain peak in the German state of Bavaria, a lesser-known but by no means less surreal figment of King Ludwig II’s imagination (famous for Neuschwanstein, aka Disney’s Cinderella castle). Unlike Ludwig’s other “fairytale” castles, you can only get to this gem via a hellish 5-hour hike, […]
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