Here is a drawing of a fabulous lady in a classic checkered taxi cab. Pen and Crayon. -Despina
View post →This summer I attended a very memorable performance of Moliere’s “The school for husbands” by the New York Classical Theater in Central Park, and this is one of the drawings I did of the farce. There are more drawings of this performance on my website.
View post →Two 1920ies models in beachwear triggering some special memories in a pair of mature (and still stylish) gallery visitors.
View post →I had the good fortune to catch the fabulous Sonia Delaunay fashion and textiles show at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum before it closed, and I got even more than I bargained for: Not only were the pieces on display exquisitely wacky and tasteful, but the show turned out to be a magnet for some very […]
View post →This is the last drawing I’m posting here from my Rome trip which I did in the cab from the airport to capture what I was seeing hundred-fold on the streets around me: chain-smoking locals crammed into sardine cans traversing a breathtakingly beautiful landscape.
View post →On my recent travels to Rome I took the time to do a little drawing, and this is my favorite one of that trip: One of the shady “gladiators” outside the Colosseum. He and his collegues were not overly thrilled at my attentions, so I had to do the sketch as fast as I could […]
View post →This drawing was done at a German restaurant in New York City, and is a tongue-in-cheek interpretation of German “Heimat” (roughly, “home”) kitsch. The stuffed deer stands for the belling stag (“Roehrender Hirsch”), which is the subject of pretty much every painting in old Germans’ homes, and is an allusion to the German spirit, an ennobled […]
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