Ok, so we have a few weeks left. And this week hasn’t been so bad. I was told this morning that the already cold (and snowy) New York landscape that we are in for this year is to be followed by the most brutal heat wave of a summer. Just when I let my eco-conscious […]
View post →Yes, it is Saturday and I am posting for last Thursday (internet magic), yes she looks like she is smelling his underarm (she wasn’t, she was completely entranced by him), and yes time always seems to play games with us (it isn’t personal, at least I don’t believe it to be), but all there needs […]
View post →Well, actually it was also a green and red day too, but it started out blue. I rarely wake before the sun. When I did long ago I fell right back to sleep the second we pulled out of the driveway. I was 15 minutes late on this blue morning (technically 13 I was told), half […]
View post →As I realized I only had a brand new sketchbook (read blank) with me, and heading to a client on the 6 train, I reached a little deeper and found my Books of Heads. Pulling it from my bag I found my subject. Just as I lifted my pen a man stopped a foot in […]
View post →I remember seeing the Morgan, even if I didn’t remember her name, when I was a kid. In fact, I have rather strong memories of the Charles W. Morgan and an old souvenir (does anyone use that word anymore—it does seem perfect for a wooden ship though) from a childhood visit. I even realized recently […]
View post →I said last week that drawing has been on my mind lately. I can’t begin to say how much so. It should be on my mind this much everyday. One Drawing a Day and you have 365 at the end of the year. Pretty good numbers. But none the less, the act of drawing, the […]
View post →I saw this woman get on the train yesterday and immediately she moved around in such a way that I had to draw her. I think she knew. —Dominick
View post →To say that I have had drawing on the brain all day is an understatement. To say I realized it was Thursday only a few minutes ago is also an understatement. —Dominick
View post →I knew what would follow when the man on the left saw me turn the page and asked if I would draw him and his friend. I informed him that it would destroy the binding of sketch book if I pulled the paper out of it, but I promised to post it today. What are […]
View post →“I do not search, I find.” Never more true words could be said for the great master. Have a wonderful weekend.—MIchele
View post →I don’t mind the cooler weather at all, nor a little rain (OK, a lot of rain, but it seems to have stopped)—the one great benefit of the strange weather is the strange weather. Weird grey fog rolling across the Hudson with pops of emerging greens and pink colors. A few of the thumbnails from […]
View post →A quick thumbnail from my trip to the American Museum of Natural History last week with Despina.This is when I found out that the birds were inside.—Dominick
View post →I started this drawing, the parts in ink, at the AMNH in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda. I put the pad down for a moment and everything changed. I turned the pad around and found birds. Prehistoric birds. A nod to Teddy for reading all about his youthful observation. It must have had an impact because […]
View post →I loved this guy when I drew him. He had so much style. And plenty of attitude. But good attitude. Positive attitude. Proud attitude. —Dominick
View post →The days have been blurring and the nights have been absent, but one thing remains constant, my mornings are greeted with a smile.—Dominick
View post →Not to be missed, and to think I nearly set this up a week prior but held off. Thursday has come and gone, but the drawings were done.—Dominick
View post →An early, mid-breakfast, nearly made us late for the bus, request.—Dominick
View post →And next week couldn’t be any further away. Oh what a difference a day can make.—Dominick
View post →I stopped trying to hide the fact that I am drawing. I’ve been doing it for years now on my routine trips that I feel like I should put out a cup. Or at least wear a sign with this blog name on it. Sometimes I’ll get engaged in some discussion when I get off […]
View post →Can’t help but miss everything about this town. The streets, the food, the people (like this fellow passenger on the Lexington line), there is no place like New York and no place like the Upper East Side. —Dominick
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