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A life drawing of art model Larva from 2015. #notaiart #lifedrawing
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
An illustration sponsored by the Society of Illustrators New York, for the NYPD 9/11 Heroes project in 2015. #jameszadrogahealthandcompensationact #illustration
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A life drawing of costumed art model Lilly with some imagined characters from 2015 in my Illustrative Storytelling class. #notaiart #inkillustration #lifedrawing #illustrativestorytelling
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A recent life drawing of Channing. #lifedrawing
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A workplace violence piece for Security Management magazine in 2013. #illustration
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A band painting of Arcade Fire for Rolling Stone magazine in 2013. Inks on printmaking paper. #rollingstone #arcadefire #illustration
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A life drawing of Andy Flaster at Garfield Park in 2016. #lifedrawing #figuredrawing
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
An illustration for Reader’s Digest in 2011 about a remote town in Romania that became the epicenter for digital scams. #notaiart #illustration #ink
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A watercolor illustration from 1996.
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A 2010 life drawing of art model, Louise Clapps as the Grandmother in a class room set up for Flannery O’Connor’s Southern Gothic masterpiece “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” #flanneryoconnor #agoodmanishardtofind #literaryillustration
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A life drawing from London in 2007. #notaiart #visualessay
November 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
An illustration in 2005 for San Francisco magazine. #notaiart #editorialillustration #noirillustration
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A full page watercolor illustration in Stamford magazine in 1996.
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
An illustration for the New York Times Key Magazine in 2007 about a woman stalking a handyman. Shades of John Cheever’s, The 548. #editorialillustration #notaiart
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
For Newsweek magazine in 2008. Kim Jong Il, former supreme leader of North Korea. #notaiart #illustration #editorialillustration
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A life drawing this week of Sarah Streeter. Woodless graphite pencil on bond paper. 18 X 24 inches. Three hours. #notaiart #lifedrawing
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
An illustration for Trustees Magazine in 2007. #editorialillustration #illustration
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
An illustration in Northeastern University magazine in 1997 about a Jewish Family. #editorialillustration
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
For Wired magazine in the early 2000’s. #editorialillustration
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
One of 3 illustrations in Sojourners this month for a story about Jubilee Cemetery in Georgia, where they keep an open grave for the dispossessed. Many thanks to art director Kory Kennedy for this poignant assignment about people who care for others.
#editorialillustration #notaiart
October 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
One of 3 illustrations in Sojourners this month for a story about Jubilee Cemetery in Georgia, where they keep an open grave for the dispossessed. Many thanks to art director Kory Kennedy for this poignant assignment about people who care for others.
#editorialillustration #notaiart
October 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
October 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“He’s Still Alive!” For The PennStater in 2022.
October 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
October 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
October 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM