Yes, part two part two—the day was long, as most days having a beginning and an end are. As I mentioned in the last post, as the Charles W. Morgan broke free from the river bottom the steamboat Sabino turned around and headed back towards My ...
It seems like only yesterday that I was sequestered in my studio working day and night on the final prints for the Dalvero Academy Journey of Transformation show currently on display at Mystic Seaport. As with so many projects, the end is never q ...
This week I began an evening life drawing class at Amplify, a company that is re-imagining education as part of the digital revolution. And so as part of that, they are offering life drawing classes to their employees, not only to the artists and des ...
A few pictures from yesterday’s event at the Oculus, the new shopping gallery at the World Trade Center in Manhattan. I was at the new Chase WTC branch, signing prints of the TriBeCa reportage illustration I created for the Chase Private Client cam ...
Last Wednesday afternoon, I met my friend Margaret Hurst at the entrance to Washington Square Park, to scope out where we would draw during the Bernie Sanders rally that was planned for the evening. And what did we find? People were already beginnin ...
If you will be drinking coffee any time soon in the Philadelphia area, you might try some Ellis Coffee, with poster and board art created on location by yours truly. :) This was a fun job to spend the day running around a great city, making drawings. ...
Happy to announce that I will be in Manchester for the 2016 Urban Sketchers Symposium, teaching my workshop, titled: Puzzling Out the Picture. Hope to see some of you there! #USkManchester2016 PUZZLING OUT THE PICTURE Many times, when a sketcher arri ...
It was such a joy to be a part of this amazing group of artists who came together to express how they feel about the state of the ocean, with a special emphasis on whales and ocean wild life. All the while keeping the Charles W. Morgan at the heart o ...
Demonstrators gathering in Union Square park On Wednesday evening, I heard that there was going to be a rally in support of the people of Baltimore, in Union Square park in New York City. I decided to go over and see what was happening. When I first ...
I’m honored to be included in the Canadian ART IN TRANSIT show “Sketching The Line”, an exhibition of reportage drawings made while of commuters and subway-goers. Back in 2007-8 I took advantage of my time on NYC subways by drawing anyone I cou ...
As those of you in the US know, yesterday was the Super Bowl, the biggest football game of the year. This year the game was held in Giants stadium in New Jersey, and to celebrate, NYC turned Times Square into a kind of NFL Superbowl playground. I kno ...
Yesterday was the first Sunday in November – in New York City that means it’s time for the marathon! 40,000 people run 24 miles through the five boroughs of New York – Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan. Even though it was ...
Had the pleasure of attending the Workbook Creative Carnival last Thursday out in Chicago. This was my first time out to the carnival (no comments Bob) and it was a great time all around. It is really hard to have a bad time when you are asked to dra ...
This weekend saw the conclusion of Restoring a Past, Charting a Future, a fantastic group show I am proud to have been a part of. The work documented the restoration of the Charles W. Morgan, the centerpiece of Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. The engr ...
