Our last good shot at summer weather came this past Sunday here in New York City. Fortunately, I spent much of the late afternoon at the park by the bridge in Queens, New York. What a lovely way to end the summer. Damn, I hate to see it go – I feel like taping the […]

After years of teaching illustration at Pratt Institute, Parsons the New School for Design and our own Dalvero Academy, the advice to “practice drawing people in the subway every day!!” has come back to me full circle. Above is a small drawing I was commissioned to do for the Columbia University magazine, illustrating a light-hearted story about an older […]

 In honor of the anniversary of September 11, 2001, I am posting a photo of one of my drawings from 9/11 on view in the Newseum in Washington DC.  The experiences I had that day will always stay with me. My thoughts go out today to everyone who was tragically affected on that sunny Tuesday. …thanks […]

  Ahh, the last days of summer. I remember crying every Labor Day weekend at the thought of going back to school again. When I was between the ages of six and eighteen, Jerry Lewis and his telethon could bring on instant depression. While I’m not quite that unhappy about fall in New York City anymore, […]

Just got home from teaching a reportage class on location in DisneyWorld. Tropical storm Fay made things interesting to say the least, but we managed to get the students out to the parks and drawing and illustrating like pros! I was able to sneak a few little drawings in – sitting between the rain drops – it’s always […]

Back to the Bahamas – we couldn’t help returning to that beautiful spot. Greeny blue water, blue skies, billowy clouds; fantastic! We spent much of our trip snorkeling and saw many more fish than we did in the spring. Maybe the fish like to summer there as well. There were lion fish, parrot fish, grouper swimming around […]

I am very proud to post on this blog the fact that my reportage of September 11th is part of the News History exhibition at the newly opened Newseum in Washington DC.My drawing is featured in the news history gallery in one of the cases in the “Who Controls the News?” exhibit in a section called […]

I recently had the opportunity to illustrate three cities for Hue magazine, the alumni magazine of FIT. The article was called “A Tale of Three Cities” and it talked about the FIT fashion management program in New York, Paris and Hong Kong. So this drawing is like, best of my fave cities, or maybe, a […]

Here’s an editorial piece I did recently that appeared in the Sunday Arts section of the Hartford Courant, about band groupies. Apparently they are organizing online – one group mentioned in the article even has a MySpace page! What’ll they think of next? The job was fun to do, and the AD was great to […]

Spent my recent birthday in the Bahamas – a highly recommended way to honor the passing of another year of your life. The sun was hot, the water was cool and Neil and I saw a barracuda while snorkeling! The drawing above is from the harbor town in Nassau; a fairly typical island scene. The […]