Every Easter in New York City, Fifth Avenue in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral becomes filled with folks dressed up in their Easter best, with elaborately crafted Easter bonnets. And plenty of tourists to take their pictures! I strolled around for about an hour this morning and drew a few that caught my eye…Birds of […]
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Today in Washington DC, NYC, Chicago, LA, and every other city, state and town in the America – and around the world – there was a “March for Our Lives” to demand gun reform in the United States. Organized by the kids from Parkland, the marches were full of children and teenagers demanding sensible gun […]
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All across the United States today, students walked out of their classes from 10:00 to 10:17 am, to remember the 17 people who were killed at the Parkland shooting, and to protest gun violence in our country. These kids walked out of their school in my neighborhood of Jackson Heights. #endgunviolence #walkout #gunreformnow
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A few goddess illustrations I thought I’d post in honor of International Women’s Day. I think 2018 should be the YEAR of the woman! :)
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This past week I had the pleasure of attending the Society of Illustrators Sketch Night, dedicated to the 1950s fashions and elegance featured in the film “Phantom Threads.” The evening featured, aside from great models and fashion, free sewing kits and a movie ticket raffle, which I won! It’s always fun to draw elegant fashion, […]
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Happy to be one of the talented artists featured in the latest Association of Illustrators blog post about Artists for Democracy – featuring our on-site reportage illustrations of the many political protests that happened around the United States in the last year. Thanks to Julia Sverchuk for all of her tireless work in creating and […]
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Happy to announce that my illustration of the “City Zone” diorama for the Lego museum in Denmark has been accepted to the Society of Illustrators of LA 56th annual Illustration West competition, in the Entertainment and Visual Development category! The exhibit opens in the SILA gallery in January 2018. Thanks to SILA and the judges!
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We all have those books that made a big impression on us as children – Anne of Green Gables was one of those books for me. So I was thrilled to be asked to create a cover illustration for this classic, as part of the exhibit: Covering the Classics at Gallery 1888 in Orange, California. […]
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Happy to announce that I am in two exhibits this month! The first one, pictured above, is called Transcriptors: Illustration, Documentary and the Material at University for the Creative Arts, Farnham in the UK. The photo above shows one of my drawings from 9/11 at the entrance to the gallery; in the case are publications […]
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A few weeks ago I received a call to do an illustration for the Smithsonian magazine – featured in the “Ask Smithsonian” column. It’s a monthly column on the last page of the issue, and my illustration for the November “Q” column asks the question: “Union Station, Penn Station – why do so many major […]
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