Fashion Week Eve 2012

New York celebrates Fashion Week 2012 by kicking off with Fashion's Night Out. 

Montauk - Labor Day Weekend

While vacationing with family, I managed to steal a few moments to make some drawings and paintings. The weather was perfect!

Street fair in town with Montauk tower rising up in the background.

My  niece Cassandra playing with abstract expressionism!

Then building sand castles.

African Festival Governor's Island

An Elegant Afternoon

The transformative power of clothing and environment never fails to amaze me. I went to Governor's Island this past weekend for the Jazz Age Lawn Party, and I stepped back in time to 1920. It was a real treat. It was like being in a movie set with actors in costume, except these were real people, walking a little taller, sitting a little straighter moving with grace and sophistication, head to toe, as if this was their natural movement. What a treat!

Happy New Year 2012

Happy Chinese New Year! I met my friend Trang for dimsum at the oldest tea parlor in New York City, Nom Wah, on Doyers street. There were many tourists, just like myself which created a lively atmosphere and made our meal more enjoyable. If you've never have dimsum, think of it as Chinese tapas - sampler dishes of dumplings, usually 3-4 pieces and hors d'oeuvres-like dishes. We had shrimp dumplings, turnip cakes, vegetables, stuffed eggplant, pork buns, and a doughnut rice noodle roll, which I had for the first time and was weirdly good!

Beautiful city of Chicago

Drawing at Milk Studios for Daily Candy

Hey guess what, Daily Candy asked me to draw at their Start Small Go Big event at Milk Studios. I had my own wall with art from my blog displayed (see above). Wow what an amazing time. It was a really nice party and I met a lot of great people. Thanks so much Audria and Bernadette for all your help and thank you to the ladies at Daily Candy for a wonderful time. Also thanks so much Julie, my assistant for the evening for being so patient. Here is a small sample of portrait drawings of some of the beautiful people I met tonight.