Category: New York City
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I’ve gotten more done on the Hand lettering class project and I’m still experimenting with the background:
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2015 Approaches!
The sun is setting on another year and I have been thinking about goals, both old and new. It’s important for me to remember to celebrate accomplishments first, before moving too far into the goal-setting stage. I found myself ignoring that last week, my thoughts focusing only on what I’d like to achieve in 2015.…
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This Sunday: See you at Ridgewood Market!
A quick post to remind you that if you are in the New York City area this Sunday, September 21, I hope you’ll be able to stop by the Ridgewood Market in Queens. I will be there selling items from The Nancydraws Shop: Foodietoos, greeting cards, prints and original art from my “Love, New York”…
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Free Art! “Turban Lady” Edition
In recent months I have been thinking about different ways of getting my art into other people’s hands as a fun way to get some attention for my artwork. Being a self-marketing machine gets pretty dull and repetitive, and for the amount of time I put in, it is often without much reward or acknowledgement from the public. What…
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Percival Featherington III
Pigeons are everywhere in New York City, where I live. Even though I am not a big pigeon fan I came up with this slightly sarcastic and always hungry character to represent my hometown. Percival has been featured on many of my Christmas greeting cards, as well as my first Hannukah design for 2012. He loves…
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Restaurant Drawings
From 2003, through 2010, I was a regular contributor for The Park Slope Reader and New York Spirit‘s restaurant reviews. I really enjoyed being able to check out new restaurants and know about what’s happening in that world and around my community. An infrequent side-benefit was a free appetizer or beverage from a gracious manager or…
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“Love, New York”
Over the summer of 2013, I decided to take a break from my usual digital collage style and focus on drawing, which is how all of my creative projects begin. I needed to look no further than my daily voyages around my home town of New York City for new subject matter. There always seems…
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Feeding the body, feeding the soul
I made a deal with myself tonight that I’d write a blog post or do some work related to my illustration business before I ate dinner. This is usually my game plan on the evenings that I come home from my day job in magazine publishing and don’t have any set social plans. Luckily tonight…
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Funny Story
Happy Hanukkah Noodles with Percival Last week I received a special order for my Hanukkah card, “Percival’s Noodles,” via The Nancydraws Shop on Etsy. The customer wanted 12 of them, saying that they were perfect for her Chinese-Jewish family! I definitely hadn’t had this scenerio in mind when I created the card, but that’s one…
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