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Plants are waking up in the garden; hope to see lots of pollinators soon. Since last summer I’ve been making drawings of some of the insects found in NYC. This one is an Eastern Bumble Bee. (Bombus Impatiens) about 7x6″. Pen.

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Eastern Box Turtle. 4x6″

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All about drawing bees this summer. Here’s the good ol’ Honeybee. About 4x6″.

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Been into the garden, and drawing some of the bees i see buzzing around. This one is a Carpenter Bee. One of the easiest to spot and recognize here in NYC.

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West 4th.Street. 2018. Pen. About 2 x 5″

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Here’s a Basset Hound from way back. 3.5 x 4.5 pen.

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Another Town of Cats thumbnail. 2 x 3"

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Happy International Cat Day! Here’s an old favorite:

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Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis). 2017 6.5 x 10″ Pen. From my small sketchbook.

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Bedford Avenue. 2.5 x 8″ pen.

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Myrtle Broadway on the JMZ. Right on the Bed-Stuy / Bushwick border. Pen.

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Happy Year of the Rooster!< /p>

Rooster, etching 4 x 5"

I made this etching to celebrate the Lunar New Year and for my wife, who was born in the Year of the Rooster. Limited prints are available.

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Undated skull study in pencil.

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...this is a town of cats. When the sun starts to go down, many cats come trooping across the bridge—cats of all different kinds and colors.

Haruki Murakami, Town of Cats

I had a lot of fun doing this particular thumbnail, (3.7 x 3.7″ Pen.) part of a series, based on the chapter Town of Cats from 1Q84 by Haruki Murkami The chapter appeared in the New Yorker and can be read online here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/05/town-of-cats

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Vacation sketch of an amazing Rembrandt self portrait that hangs in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. So many wonderful paintings there. Full page of a sketchbook. Pencil.

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DeKalb ave on the L. Pen. About 3″ x 4″

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Sketchbook page from the Metropolitan Museum done in ‘03.

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Northern Hawk Owl. 2016. Pen. About six inches square.

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