The many faces of…

Ever since he played the Master of Ceremonies in “Cabaret” in 1998 I’ve been a huge fan of the incredibly talented Scottish actor Alan Cumming. His range is enormous and to say “entertaining” is an understatement. Two days ago on CBS Sunday Morning they did this awesome feature on him, his thoughts and selective choices during […]

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Inspirational Experiment

This is a series of watercolor and gold pen pattern designs that I created. I had been looking at a lot of Japanese fabrics and prints and they inspired me to paint, draw and design these “patterns of nature.” They were just an inspirational experiment in abstraction, pattern and design and I ended up really […]

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Vineyard Patterned Landscape

I was looking through some of my drawing /art notebooks and found some of my Patterned Fantasy Landscapes. I started out thinking about a vineyard and continued to fantasize about other objects that might appear in this vineyard patterned landscape. Different types of bodies, sea creatures, land animals and checkered landscapes came to mind. Margaret […]

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Peace Rose

A rose is a beautiful thing to look at whenever you can!  This particular rose was drawn and water colored at the Bronx Botanical Gardens in New York. It was great  because so many beautiful roses and other flowers were in bloom that day that it was hard to pick out a particular flower.  I […]

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Our South Street Seaport

We, the illustrators of Studio 1482 felt an incredible need to do something to actively support our great city and it’s neighboring communities devastated by Hurricane Sandy’s violent wrath. So in response we’ve each created a print of one of our favorite New York City images to raise money for the displaced victims of the […]

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