Our last morning in Beijing we hightailed it over to the Temple of Heaven, you know, the one featured in the Chinese pavilion at EPCOT? WEll of course Disney has done it again and reproduced it exactly, with the exception that the Orlando version has iced tea on demand and Western style toilets nearby. (Enough […]

The Hutong are a very distinctive part of Beijing. It’s said that a quarter of the city’s residents live in the hutongs, narrow alleyways made up of somewhat crumbly one-story stone buildings and courtyard homes. A lot of them are being demolished to make way for the new large buildings popping up all over Beijing, […]

The great, greater, greatest, fantastico Great Wall! It really does deserve its name. There is a saying attributed to Mao that you are not a man until you have climbed the Great Wall -　のOK, so now we are men! That phrase `climbing the wall` really applies, you really do CLIMB it. It seemed like we […]

Beijing. I can’t say that I love it or that I hate it. I will say it is different from any city I have ever been in, and that China is like no place I have ever been. This drawing is the Gate of Heavenly Peace – the famous one with the Mao portrait, huge, […]

Tokyo is a very interesting city. Evidence of a long cultural history exists side-by-side with a craze for fads and new things. The drawing above shows a Tokyo McDonald’s next to what looks like an old Japanese tea house. I love that mixture, it’s so positive. You can get by with very few words of […]

Sometimes reportage can be just a way to describe and remember a beautiful moment. Central Park on a nice day is like a little slice of peace in the middle of Manhattan. I did this picture while sitting on a rock, and was art directed by an eight year old girl who watched me paint […]

So, Floyd Landis is having his trial to decide if he will keep his title as the winner of the 2006 Tour de France. He is defending himself against allegations that he took testoterone during the Tour, allegations he repeatedly denies. This is the first time that an athlete has requested a public hearing. You […]

Hi and welcome to the professional blog site of Veronica Lawlor, a member of Studio 1482. I’ll be posting reportage drawings and writings from my travels here; I hope you’ll stop by periodically to check it out. I’d love to hear your comments and am excited to have this forum to reach out with. If […]