I watched as the trucks arrived and the crew set up for the day. Having no idea how long it takes to dismantle and drop a 70 foot tall maple tree, I set up surveillance to track the progress. Spys were keeping me informed and the sounds of “The Chipper” alerted me to the momentum of […]
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Sitting on a table, adjacent to my drawing board, is a small tome of little consequence to the outside world. Thus far only a few copies exist. As I have written and posted about on One Drawing a Day over the past few years I have been documenting the daily grind of a flexographic pressman in the state […]
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For the past decade or so I have been working a collection of drawings that have developed into their own project. Slowly, each drawing piles up and gives shape to the next. In the course of that time one small set of those drawings emerged as a smaller, and very personal, side project. Once that side project started to […]
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Studio 1482 has had great success with our One Drawing A Day book based on our daily blog so I was excited when Veronica asked me to contribute to the third volume of an Urban Sketchers reportage series she was working on for Quarry. Last year, long after turning in the work she requested and after I had nearly forgotten about the book […]
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I “missed” the dropping of the ball in January. Well, I didn’t miss it exactly, I just didn’t get done all that I had intended by that moment in time. Common amongst illustrators is the theme that the work is done when the deadline is up. Obviously we work with experience within a certain timeframe […]
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When I got back on the DC Metro Friday afternoon I had already decided I would not post anything on Instagram. A single image and a few hashtags doesn’t quite do the subject justice. By the time I was eating lunch a few hours later (first time at Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, MD—thank you—perfect post-Trump atmosphere) I made […]
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The final moment of the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan came on the date above when the pride of Mystic Seaport sailed back to its dock. All the onlookers gathered at various spots along the Mystic River to get a glimpse of her as she passed through. This was it—the moment we all knew would […]
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My Instagram feed kept alerting me to the fact that the Dalvero Academy Journey of Transformation show closed at the end of the day yesterday. My colleagues were at Mystic Seaport today picking up their work and enjoying the cold but sunny weather. And all of a sudden a moment draws to a close. Good intentions aside, […]
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With just two days left until the Dalvero Academy Journey of Transformation show ends its run at Mystic Seaport I am trying to get the last three posts up. One post a day. Sounds daunting, but then again it is the weekend. Truth be told, this print was the last to get designed and the last to […]
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The trip to Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary was another first—my inaugural visit to Cape Cod. I have traveled around New England my entire life but never the Cape. While it is truly beautiful, I would advise midnight travel in the middle of the week—be warned, it is popular. The Dalvero crew spent a couple […]
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