by Jeffrey M Levine | Aug 24, 2020
This past weekend I escaped the city heat and drove to the Catskill Mountains to paint a beautiful old structure – Stone Arch Bridge in Sullivan County. It was the second time I painted this bridge, the last time was in late fall when most leaves were brown....
by Jeffrey M Levine | Aug 1, 2020
I am a fan of old trains, so in late July I went on a sketch adventure to the abandoned locomotives of the Allagash wilderness. Deep in Maine’s North Woods sit two rusting 100-ton steam engines, remnants of the lumber industry that once supplied twenty percent of...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Jan 5, 2020
About a year ago I bought a vintage Byer & Hayes fountain pen. It was in good shape with the original clip with the B&H logo. The main thing I liked was the super-flexible gold nib for sketching. Unfortunately the bladder rotted and the ink dried up leaving...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Dec 8, 2019
I’ve long been a fan of J.M.W. Turner’s huge luminous oils that hang in many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in my hometown of Manhattan. However I was unaware of his watercolors, and when I learned about the exhibit at the Mystic Seaport Museum I had...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Nov 30, 2019
This past summer while roaming the Maine countryside looking for enticing scenes for plein air painting I came across a piece of American railway history. It was the crumbling remains of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad. The town was Thorndike, and it sits...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Jun 26, 2019
Back when digital cameras began to outsell film cameras, I was still doing street photography with my Leica M4 and developing the film in my apartment. I have thousands of negatives in storage that document life in Manhattan since I moved here in 1984. All the...
