Tag: illustration

  • September 26, 2016 at 03:28PM

    1,000 drawings! Wow, this is the one thousandth consecutive daily drawing in my #NicksLunchboxService project, and I chose a place that’s really important to me—the chapel at Greenwood Cemetery, built in 1911 and designed by architecture firm Warren and Wetmore, who also did Grand Central. Thank you to everyone following along with these drawings, and…

  • April 13, 2016 at 03:27PM

    Lunchtime drawing: Cherry tree blossoms and ½ of the Pilgrim sculpture by John Quincy Adams Ward on a knoll known as Pilgrim Hill in Central Park Also, it was great to be spotted while drawing by Aloa Rowa on this great spring day, hi again! from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1qIlCma via IFTTT

  • January 27, 2016 at 12:27PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Numbers 5 and 4 Washington Square North, and snow on the melt in the park. #NicksLunchboxService #washingtonsquarepark #washingtonsquarenorth @wspecoprojects #greekrevival #art #architecture #sketchbook #nyc #illustration (at Washington Square Park) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1Kb4pu1 via IFTTT

  • October 16, 2015 at 05:17PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: On March 6, 1970, the townhouse at 18 West 11th Street in Greenwich Village accidentally exploded while members of the Weather Underground were assembling bombs with dynamite in the basement. In 1977 a new building was built on the site by architect Hugh Hardy, like an 1840s townhouse turned on a modernist diagonal.…

  • October 06, 2015 at 06:30PM

    Later than lunchtime #drawing: First time walking to the end of Pier 40 —which was the Department of Marine & Aviation, before being a boathouse, play fields, parking, etc.—a bit before the sun sets. Drawing @hudsonriverpark day 2/5. #nickslunchboxservice #hudsonriver #hudsonriverpark #pier40 #pier #nyc #Hudson #newjersey #maritime #art #architecture #illustration #sketchbook (at Pier 40 at…

  • September 19, 2015 at 12:23PM

    Hare Krishna jingle drumbeats, chess hustlers, sign holders, direct sun, it’s Union Square and the subway entrance that looks like an onion dome. Time to start shopping for some produce at the farmers market. #NicksLunchboxService #subway #unionsquare #unionsquarenyc # #architecture #Arqsketch #sketchbook #illustration #art #nycsubway #NYC (at Union Square Park) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on…

  • September 07, 2015 at 03:30PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: A break from a picnic on Labor Day in Prospect Park, walking around with my daughter for her to nap. #NicksLunchboxService @prospect_park #prospectpark #brooklyn #laborday #picnic #longmeadow #art #illustration (at Prospect Park) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1XCOEzQ via IFTTT

  • August 27, 2015 at 04:11PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Ivy covered 18 West 10th Street was home to writer Emma Lazarus. A line from her poem, “The New Colossus,” is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Literary Greenwich Village 4/5 #NicksLunchboxService #EmmaLazarus #GreenwichVillage #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #poet #statueofliberty…

  • August 23, 2015 at 07:01PM

    Milestone #drawing: This is my 600th consecutive daily drawing for ‘Nick’s Lunchbox Service’ – and a view of lower Manhattan from the 19th floor of the Standard Hotel, with the High Line and Whitney Museum down below. Thanks for keeping up with this project! #NicksLunchboxService #LowerManhattan #skyline #StandardHotel #NYC #HighLine #WhitneyMuseum #WaterTowers #illustration #sketchbook #art…

  • August 22, 2015 at 02:11PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: No. 4 Gramercy Park West, the stoop Dylan sat on to be photographed for the Highway 61 Revisited album cover, and a Greek Revival mansion that once housed mayor James Harper and received its lanterns out front. Dylan 7/7 This wraps up a week of drawing Bob Dylan related locations in New York…