Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Spent the night before Thanksgiving drawing the balloon blow-up for the Macy’s parade here in New York City, an annual tradition for Macys and now, me too. This year I went with my friends and fellow artists Si Yeon, Chris, Evan, and Jodi. We had a great time, despite the crowds, and […]
View post →Tomorrow night, November 15, from 6pm – 9pm the exhibit titled The Unspecific Index opens at 601Artspace in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. I designed the display for Paul Ryan’s theories called Earthscore, which includes a few of my illustrations along with Paul’s video, his drawings, text, and an illustration of the Relational […]
View post →In response to Hurricane Sandy’s devastating effects on the New York and New Jersey area, I and the other illustrators of Studio 1482 have each created a print of one of their favorite New York City images to raise money for the displaced victims of the storm, through the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. For each […]
View post →On Friday morning I took a walk through parts of lower Manhattan to document a bit of the downtown area, where power has been out for several days. Hurricane Sandy slammed the Northeast coast of the US, creating a massive storm surge that flooded much of the New Jersey coast, Staten Island, parts of Brooklyn […]
View post →Posting some more summer drawings – been busier drawing than posting this summer; that’s fun. These are a few drawings I made at Times Square at the end of July. I went out with fellow Studio 1482 members Margaret Hurst and Despina Georgiadis and we had a great time just drawing and hanging out together. […]
View post →As Labor Day weekend fades in the rear view mirror, it’s time for me to come to grips with the fact that summer is ending. I have always hated to see the end of summer in New York – warm weather, more free time, and friends coming to visit. This summer is no exception. While […]
View post →I now have a Tumblr account, at http://vlawlor.tumblr.com/ Come by and say hello!
View post →As some of you may know, I recently returned home from the 3rd Annual Urban Sketchers Symposium, held in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. Orling Dominguez, a native of DR, was greatly instrumental in organizing this event – thank you Orling! It’s always so gratifying to meet other artists who love to draw on location, […]
View post →I just returned from the 3rd International Urban Sketchers Symposium in Santo Domingo – what a great three days! Spent this morning scanning my drawings, which I will post soon, but then heard about the demonstration activity going on outside the Con Edison building in NYC, so had to go over and draw that first. […]
View post →Last week, I had the pleasure of drawing the arrival of the space shuttle Enterprise to it’s new home in New York City – the deck of the Intrepid Aircraft Carrier. The Intrepid is docked on the Hudson river pier at about 45th Street in Manhattan. A ton of people came to see the arrival […]
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