Sugar Loaf Spring Festival

It’s spring, and the Sugar Loaf Spring Festival will run again from May 25-26th. Here’s a sketch from a band playing there last year- I remember the banjo.

Metropolitan Museum Gallery

I did this piece last year as part of my AP Studio Art portfolio, continuing with the theme of reportage illustration-inspired artwork inspired by crowds of people. Setting up the lines of the… Read More →

Accordion Man

My adventures around New York City’s Bastille Day celebration from 2010-2011 have become a major source of artistic inspiration. Both times I was there, I was charmed to see this man playing the… Read More →

Sook Ridgewood

I was taking the train home with my sister one day when we heard of a brushfire up ahead. After waiting on the top level of the double-decker for a few minutes, we… Read More →

1 Bus Ride Home, 100 Years of Solitude

For a few weeks, I toted around Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, reading it in the few snatches of time I’d have on the train or bus while in transit to and… Read More →

Just sipping coffee at NYC’s Best Pizzeria

Last March, I was en route to Boston with my school Certamen team (think Latin quizbowl) for a tournament at Harvard, when we stopped at a pizzeria across from Penn Station that Magistra… Read More →

The Most Interesting Part of College Information Sessions Is…

Sketching the people there, of course. This one from a college info session–the last one I went to. Rice and UChicago in attendance, it seems? I actually can’t even remember. The kid on… Read More →

200 West 34th Street, New York, NY

If you haven’t guessed from the rest of my posts here, I feel incredibly privileged to live so close to New York City and be a part of its constant moving color and… Read More →

One-Man Band at the Boston Public Garden

This guy attracted a lot of attention at the Boston Public Garden when I visited–as a one-man band, he was playing a lot of popular music and made sure that he pieced his… Read More →

Namasya: Dance Performance at the Joyce Theatre

This performance by Indian artist Shantala Shivanlingappa at the Joyce Theatre in NYC combined Indian classical dance (kuchipudi) with modern elements, including songs choreographed with Pina Bausch. The theatre was small and intimate,… Read More →