KIKA! The one and only. Drawn with ink, charcoal, and watercolor on Canson Mixed Media paper. At the Dalvero Academy advanced drawing/painting workshop. A heavenly week ladies – thanks to all of you! Posted by Veronica
View post →Manhattan is BOOMING with new construction lately, and no place in the city is seeing this more than Chelsea. Since the Highline stopped being an industrial eyesore of the West side and became a chic park, seems like all the ritzy people want to live there. So many new glass palaces going up everywhere – […]
View post →A lot of my friends find it a bit strange that I keep saying that moving from Manhattan to Jackson Heights is like moving to the country. Remember that Seinfeld episode when Kramer described Queens that way? There is definitely something to it, because here it is the weekend, and I am making a drawing […]
View post →Recently my friend Lapin, the French illustrator and Urban Sketcher, was in town with his wife “Lapinette” and their beautiful little daughter Louise. We all had the pleasure of meeting with Danny Gregory, author of many books on drawing, and his girlfriend JJ. One of Danny’s recent books is An Illustrated Journey, featuring many wonderful […]
View post →A little watercolor painting of one of my favorite places – the shipyards of Mystic Seaport. Posted by Veronica.
View post →Spring is here in NYC, and that means Union Square is hopping. Made this quick drawing while waiting to meet the students of my last Pratt Location Drawing class this semester. What a great group, I was sorry to see the class end. Posted by Veronica
View post →A drawing made in Jackson Heights, NYC, my new home base! Click HERE to read about it on my blog. Posted by Veronica Lawlor
View post →Had a chance to travel back up to Mystic Seaport last weekend, to make a few more drawings of the Morgan before they lower her back into the water. The Dalvero Academy exhibit artists will be there to document the event and we want to do a few more drawings before it happens. It’s amazing […]
View post →Another watercolor from the Brooklyn Botanical gardens. Love that place. – Veronica
View post →I had such a nice time last Tuesday at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden with my location drawing class that I brought Neil back on Saturday to see the garden in bloom. And boy, was it ever! More cherry trees were blossoming, along with magnolias, forsythias, daffodils, and a beautiful variety of tulips. Heavenly! We sat […]
View post →Yes, spring is finally here in New York City, and we are so happy to see her! I took my Location Drawing class from Pratt Institute to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens today, you should see the drawings they made! Great group! And I managed to steal 15 minutes for a little cup of coffee and […]
View post →Here is an old thumbnail on a pink post-it that I came across in my studio. It’s a design of the Temple of Heaven done in (EPCOT) China. I was thinking of a patch for a denim jacket at the time. Love drawing and thinking in DisneyWorld – I was trained there by my teacher, […]
View post →Took the opportunity the other day to draw some of my fellow E-train riders. The woman on the right was very suspicious of me…she didn’t seem sure of what I was doing, but she knew she didn’t like it! The lady on the left was engrossed with her smart phone…similar to the woman in Margaret’s […]
View post →Yes, that title is correct! I went to Grand Central more than once this week to see Nick Cave’s “Heard NY” dancing horses perform. REALLY GREAT! The display is all week at the terminal, put together by Creative Time and Metro Arts for Transit. Some info HERE. The horse costumes were danced in by students […]
View post →I love spending time in the studio drawing from the model. To just focus on design, line, marks, color, proportion; and play around with different ways of approaching a drawing; without any obligation to anyone, is PURE BLISS! If I do manage to get to heaven, hope so, I think there will be a big […]
View post →While in Santo Domingo this summer, I was invited to watch and draw at Jonathan Schmidt’s pakua class. (Hope I’m spelling that right, Jonathan!) Essentially it’s a Chinese martial art that reminded me a bit of Aikido. It was a beautiful dojo, outside, and I enjoyed watching Jonathan and his girlfriend Bettina (the two tall […]
View post →Yesterday one of my students said to me, “I finally GET why thumbnails are so important!” I loved hearing that. Thumbnails are great ways to think, fantasize, and solve problems. Above are the thumbnails for the final Earthscore mural design that I did for Paul Ryan at 601 Artspace this fall. You can see the […]
View post →Today the temperature climbed to the upper forties (fahrenheit) here in New York City – – with sunshine! I had the good fortune of spending some time today on the Highline, and squeezed in a few drawings of the New Yorkers emerging from their caves. Guess what – we saw our shadows! Spring will be […]
View post →Here is another drawing of a Pratt & Whitney engine at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington DC. I love drawing engines. Especially since no one has to build an engine from any of my drawings. 😉 Posted by Veronica Lawlor
View post →Playing around with designing a Pratt & Whitney turbine engine at the National Air & Space Museum…fun! posted by Veronica
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