Two weeks ago I ran the New York City marathon, to raise funds for Gilda’s Club, an organization that provides free support for cancer patients and their families. I ran in honor of my beautiful sister Patty, who lost her fight with cancer in 2014. We both benefited from Gilda’s Club, and this seemed like […]
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Burlesque Fashion – from an evening of drawing at the Society of Illustrators. Posted by Veronica.
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This is a drawing of a grocery store in Havana that I did on a visit to that city a few years ago. The local police seemed not thrilled with me making the drawing, and were asking a few questions. The people then pulled me inside the store, lowering the outside gate to give me […]
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The Oculus and the Survivor Tree, drawn during a recent visit to the 9/11 Memorial. The Oculus transportation hub at World Trade Center was designed by Santiago Calatrava, and to me, looks like two large protective angels wings reaching out over the site of the former World Trade Center. The survivor tree is a Callery […]
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Here’s one from the archives – a drawing I made of Hudson Yards from the top of a building in Chelsea in 2013. BEFORE there was anything built at Hudson Yards; it was just a place for the subway cars to rest. You can see the Intrepid in the distance, too. posted by Veronica
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Just returned from a trip to Amsterdam, where I was an instructor at the 10th annual Urban Sketchers symposium. Amsterdam is an amazing city; one of my personal favorites. The bicycle culture seems to have given every one of Amsterdam’s citizens a permanent mega-dose of endorphins, and they are among the nicest urbanites I’ve encountered. As […]
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Happy and honored to announce that I have been invited to be one of the jurors for the 2019 Sketch 4 Freedom competition, sponsored by the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy. I’m glad to be in the company of the other very talented jurors, and look forward to seeing the work that is submitted. The theme […]
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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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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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Beautiful, colorful peonies flowers at the NYBG! Loved drawing them! Spring!! m hurst
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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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One of my favorite Parisian pastimes is people watching. I love to follow the expressions and body language that surround those little cups of espresso. Posted by Veronica
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