An illustration done on location of the Lights for Liberty candlelight vigil in Manhattan’s Foley Square last Friday night. The purpose of the vigil, which was held simultaneously in cities around the US, was to shed light and attention on the immigration detention policies of the current administration at the southern border of our country. […]
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Went down to the East River to see the Fourth of July fireworks this year – what a show! posted by Veronica
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July 1 for me always feels like the REAL start of summer. Especially since the July 4 holiday is only a few days away. I did this little watercolor on the fourth of July last year in Long Island City, while we were sitting on our blanket, waiting for the fireworks to start. posted by […]
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As a working illustrator, you get used to the fact that sometimes, for all kinds of reasons, the projects you start change course mid-stream. I was a little bummed that this advertisement went another way though, since my beautiful step-daughter Danielle modeled for the illustration. Anyway, it was fun to draw her! Posted by Veronica
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So honored and excited that the City Explorer children’s game installation at NYU Hassenfeld children’s hospital has been honored by the Society for Experiential Design! As my friends know, this is a project that kept me busy for most of 2018, when I was working as an illustrator, in collaboration with the talented designers and […]
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Re-posting an older drawing I made of Dr. John when he performed in a New York City club back in 2005. Rest in Peace, sir. posted by Veronica
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Attended my very first Little League game this weekend, to cheer my nephew William and his team, the “Oakland A’s” on. Wow, such an exciting game – better than watching the major leagues! William (#3) was all over the field – got a few hits, struck out a few batters during his time as pitcher, […]
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Every year, the Memorial Day holiday in the US is the culmination of Fleet Week in New York City, when the US Navy brings some of the ships to our harbor and we can visit them and pay respects to the servicemen and women who protect us year-round. Neil and I have a tradition of […]
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A luscious peony flower that I did a pastel drawing of at last week’s Plein-Air Invitational, at the New York Botanical Garden. You can see this drawing and several others I made that day on my website, Veronica Lawlor Gallery.
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Nothing says Spring in the Northeast of the US like the scent of lilacs, and so I was super happy to spend this past Saturday at the New York Botanical Garden, sitting in the lilac plants doing pastel drawings. I was an invited artist to the NYBG’s 4th Annual Plain-Air Invitational, hosted by artist James […]
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There is nothing I love more than drawing the figure, and it is through making thousands of drawings that I began to discover my own sense of color and form. So I’m very excited to be presenting a workshop called Color and Form at the Life Drawing Symposium this June, where participants will discover, through a […]
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Here is another illustration from my reportage of the Creative Study Tour 2019: grabbing our morning jolt of caffeine from Awaken Coffee in Knoxville, Tennessee. The barista proved to me that hipsters don’t only live in Brooklyn. 🙂 And by the way, Knoxville is a very cool city! posted by Veronica
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Just returned from a 3 day trip to Kentucky and Tennessee, where I had the opportunity for the third year to document Professor Ryan Hargrove and his group of young artists on their Creative Study Tour. This is a drawing of Ryan engaged in intense discussion with one of them, about an hour before we […]
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Having fond memories of Porto, the city on the hill. It looked like a stack of brightly colored boxes to me…with plenty of satellite dishes and laundry lines scattered around too. 🙂 Posted by Veronica
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The title of this post says it all…it was a rainy day in Havana. But really, that is only the beginning of what one could say about Havana. A most unusual place, seemingly cut out of another time, with so many extremes and hundreds of sensations. I loved the place and it’s people. Havana sits […]
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I’m not always able to make it over to the Society of Illustrator’s Sketch Nights – but when it’s a Moulin Rouge theme, how can I resist? All of my favorite things wrapped up into one lacy French package. 🙂 You can see some more of my illustrations from the evening on my blog, HERE. […]
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These little thumbnails were the catalyst for a project that occupied most of my 2018 – an illustrated interactive game wall at the new NYU Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital in New York, working with the talented people at Potion Design; a trip through NYC. This thumbnail was the start of the Central Park game, see the […]
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Here is the lineup of the characters I illustrated for the Bronx Zoo section of the interactive Children’s Game Wall installed at the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, in NYU Langone’s new Kimmel Pavilion building in New York City. The project was put together by the awesome team of designers and developers at Potion Design, and it […]
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The new congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been busy making headlines since her inauguration this January. If you look closely in this drawing I made in Jackson Heights last spring, at a rally against family separations at the southern border, you’ll see her holding the banner. She was out there marching with the organizations, Queens Neighborhoods […]
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Practicing for a demo on playing with different techniques for my class – it’s addictive. 😉 posted by Veronica
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