After a several month hiatus I ventured back out onto Second Avenue this week to pick up where I left off and continue illustrating the progress on the new T-Line, better known as the Second Avenue Subway. Upon picking up my sketchbook I found that I had three drawings that I never posted from as […]
View post →A few weeks ago I was able to get a little higher up and capture a quick drawing of the work yard where all the trucks come and go from. Prior to last spring this was a small and nondescript playground that had seen better days before closing down and becoming one of two main […]
View post →Standing there, as if he owned the corner, one lone crew member stood idly by talking on the phone as his fellow contractors dealt with the new mess they were creating right behind him. This drawing was done about two weeks ago, right after the work switched to the east side of Second Avenue. It […]
View post →It had been some time since I had done any drawings on Second Avenue and with the New Year finally settling in I figured it was time to get back to it. I had an hour free one afternoon in February and walked down to see where the work was at that moment. I actually […]
View post →It has been a few months since I posted anything on the Second Avenue subway construction. The work started nearly a year ago and you can only imagine all of the planning and preparation that has gone when you realize and see that they have only just finished one side of a four block stretch. […]
View post →Reportage illustration received some much deserved and often overlooked attention last month with author DB Dowd’s The New York Times op-ed piece on the late reportage illustrator Robert Weaver. Robert Weaver is considered one of the illustrators at the forefront of reportage illustration in the 50’s and 60’s. A slide show of the work discussed […]
View post →Just after the truck left its load on the street, the backhoe was in the scene again and moving the earth into the holes left by some of the work. Like bees everyone returns to their previous positions and starts at their tasks again, cutting planks to hold the earth back, wheeling loads around, and […]
View post →It seems hard to imagine life anywhere in NYC these days without walking under scaffolding, around a barricade, or in this case through a cage. Pedestrians herded from one end of the block to the other and then looped north, south, east, west and north again just to cross the street. Inside the cage on […]
View post →About a week after the last drawing on Second Avenue I found myself in front of the Key Food on the corner of 2nd and 92nd Street, one of the many businesses greatly disturbed by the construction. The access to these buildings is getting more and more limited. It was good to see the engine […]
View post →As fellow Studio member Greg Betza announced the other day, GDI issue 3 is in the mail and making the rounds. Go Do It is the periodical publication of Studio 1482; our chance of contributing on another level. This issue finds us getting our rythym in an editorial sense with the subtitled Urban Poetry issue, […]
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