I spent last Friday night with fellow Studio 1482 members Veronica Lawlor and Margaret Hurst at the Workbook Creative Carnival. This networking event was a great time for illustrators and the creative community in general. There were live acrobats and performers doing everything from walking on glass to cracking a whip. For our Studio, it […]
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I was pleased to be asked to contribute my reportage drawings to VAROOM! magazine. The publisher Derek was looking to feature illustrators that reportage live music and he was a fan of the drawings I made of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks last year. Here is a post about that show. VAROOM! is a great […]
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On Thursday, March 8, the members of Studio 1482 will lead a lesson in observational drawing from a costumed model, Kika, at the Etsy labs in Brooklyn. The drawing event is promoting their new book, One Drawing A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity With Illustration and Mixed Media, published by Quarry Books. You’ll also […]
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I’m pleased to announce my inclusion in the Quarry Books release “The Art of Urban Sketching“. It’s a great book filled with many incredible artists, including fellow Studio 1482 members Veronica Lawlor and Margaret Hurst. The book is based on art created for the international sketching blog Urban Sketchers. I’d like to say a special […]
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I’m proud to announce the publishing of Studio 1482‘s first collective effort, One Drawing A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration and Mixed Media . The book, which is essentially our blog (www.onedrawingaday.com) put in print, guides the reader/participant through a series of exploratory and thought-provoking exercises designed to bring about very personal […]
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Those of you familiar with PowerPoint are well aware of its history of artistic limitations. So when I was asked last month to create original designs for a PowerPoint presentation, I was thrilled to hear that Microsoft is working to change people’s perception of what PowerPoint can be. I was one of six artists to […]
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As a symbol of the transient nature of life as well as rebirth, I chose to paint cherry blossoms as a tribute to the people of Japan. Our National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. is a celebration of our friendship with Japan. In response to the recent terrible earthquake in Japan and the tsunamis […]
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Fellow Studio 1482 members Michele Bedigian, Despina Georgiadis, Dominick Santise and I have been working collectively on a series of prints and promotions titled Seasons of 1482. Winter concludes our project for 2010. Check out our complete Seasons Gallery. Prints from this series are now for sale at Imagekind.com. My piece for Winter is below, […]
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Happy New Year everyone! I thought it might be interesting to start the year by showing some behind-the-scenes work, also known as “sketches” that I created for a recent commission. It was a fun illustration to do about a topic that I really find interesting, and I had a great time developing the final image. […]
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…you all had a wonderful holiday. Below is a drawing of an angel from the Metropolitan Museum’s Christmas tree.
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