So, I’ve settled into an apartment, gotten a job and I’ll start school next week. Holy Crap! Young comix artists watch out, I am talented, obsessive, and without moral compunction when it comes to art. Can’t say I didn’t warn you.
Since I am now on the East Coast and so near my old stomping ground, New York, I decided to take a brief visit and see some dear old friends. There was Bellini’s St. Francis in Extasy, Rembrant’s self-portrait, and a few of Turner’s sea paintings. And as far as people go, I saw my illustrator friend Laura Carmelita Bellmont and writer Mary Jones.
I love the big city and I swear I left a piece of my heart in Brooklyn, but now I find the city equal parts inspirational and exhausting. So much to draw and so little time. Here are a few of my New York sketches. Mary is the one to the right on the bench. She let me stay in her fabulous Hell’s Kitchen apartment.
Then after eating myself sick on cupcakes and raw fish, I jetted over to Boston, picked up my parents and their adorable mutt Lilie and came back to Vermont – the land of cheese and honey to move into my apartment. I am officially worn out.
