Tag: sketchbook

  • August 30, 2015 at 08:59PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: One of the columns and the door into the Merchant’s House Museum at 29 East 4th Street, built 1832 and the only family home preserved intact in New York City, inside and out, from the 19th century, now structurally endangered by the eight-story hotel project next door. #NicksLunchboxService @merchantshouse #museum #MerchantsHouseMuseum #LandmarksPreservationCommission #landmark…

  • 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…

  • August 19, 2015 at 02:46PM

    Lunchtime drawing: After living in Woodstock for a few years, Bob Dylan bought this townhouse at 92-94 MacDougal Street and lived there from 1966-67, but New York City (and fame) had changed in the meantime. Dylan 4/7 I’m excited for Sunday, August 23rd – which will be the 600th consecutive artwork in this drawing-a-day project.…

  • August 13, 2015 at 01:36PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: West 22nd Street towards the Hudson with a bike lane (and two bikers), on the walk home with my daughter from a great program for kids on the High Line. #NicksLunchboxService @highlinenyc #HighLine #chelsea #perspective #architecture #sketchbook #summer (at The High Line) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1Ty95ce via IFTTT

  • August 10, 2015 at 04:11PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Over at Andrew Edlin Gallery to check out the Elbow-Toe mural, “The Rain Dogs”–and it is inspiring! #NicksLunchboxService #AndrewEdlinGallery #ArtGallery #art #chelsea #architecture @edlingallery @elbowtoe #sketchbook (at Andrew Edlin Gallery) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1J03rOs via IFTTT

  • August 09, 2015 at 02:01PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: A new view over a soon-to-open park of the landmarked National Maritime Union Building, built in 1964 and designed by architect Albert C. Ledner, in the West Village. #NicksLunchboxService #WestVillage #AlbertLedner #maritime #architecture #sketchbook #1960s #StVincents (at Lenox Hill HealthPlex) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1WaMPct via IFTTT

  • August 05, 2015 at 11:31AM

    Earlier than lunchtime drawing: The Standard Hotel, designed by Ennead Architects, from behind a brick building on Gansevoort Street, on a walk to the High Line with my daughter. from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1KQLlho via IFTTT

  • August 01, 2015 at 05:20PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: The last time I drew this building with dormer windows at the corner of Barrow and Commerce Streets in the West Village, it had scaffolding around it, I’m excited to see the whole thing. The shade from the tree I’m standing beneath also turns out to be perfect for my daughter to take…