I recently had the opportunity to create these illustrations for the Washington Post’s “Local Living” section, for an article about gardening tasks to be done during the winter months. I really enjoyed the chance to play with a winter palette in this; thank Victoria for the fun project! You can see the article online HERE.
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Two weeks ago I ran the New York City Marathon to raise funds for Gilda’s Club, an organization that provides FREE cancer support for cancer patients and their families. I ran in honor of my beautiful sister Patty, who lost her fight with breast cancer in 2014. Gilda’s Club provided her with a lot of […]
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Many thanks to the jurors of American Illustration 38 for selecting my reportage illustration titled “Amsterdam Rush Hour” (above) that appeared in Lonely Planet magazine, for inclusion in the book and yearly exhibit. “The Party,” as it’s called, happened last night at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and it […]
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Very happy and honored to receive news that the City Explorer children’s game installation at the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital received an Honor Award from the SEGD (Society of Experiential Design.) When Matthew McNerney, then creative director at Potion, called me to do some illustration work for a new project they were beginning, I had no […]
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Thought I would share some of my process in creating the Flying over the Brooklyn Bridge scene with Mental Canvas and Potion Design, for the NYU Hassenfeld City Explorer interactive children’s game installation. (Click the link at the bottom of this post to see a video of the final animated game.) To give you a sense of […]
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So excited to be teaching this workshop on Color and Form as well as one called The Figure in Motion at a new event happening soon – The Life Drawing Symposium! A three day event about all things drawing, cooked up by illustrator/educator Melanie Reim and myself as we strolled through the Egon Schiele exhibit […]
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I had the honor and pleasure this past weekend to be one of 16 artists invited to participate in the New York Botanical Garden’s 4th Annual Plein-Air Invitational, hosted by the artist James Gurney. Mr. Gurney is so generous in his teaching, with many excellent videos online, that I was not surprised to discover that […]
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When Spring arrives, it seems, all I want to do is draw and paint flowers. So I am doubly excited to be an invited guest artist to the New York Botanical Garden‘s 4th Annual Plain-Air Invitational, this Saturday May 4th, hosted by James Gurney! I’ll be out there working with 15 other artists, drawing and […]
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So happy that this reportage illustration I did of the bicycle traffic in Amsterdam was Selected to be in American Illustration 38, alongside many other wonderful illustrations from my peers. Thank you to Regina Wolek and Lonely Planet for the feature, and to the jury and American Illustration! See feature from the December 2018 issue […]
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About a week ago, I heard that the Society of Illustrators sketch night was going to be a Moulin Rouge theme, hosted by the incredible Bill Donovan. I took the opportunity, as my friend Kati said, to have “my own personal Toulouse-Lautrec experience.” Apparently I am not the only one who harbors this fantasy, […]
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