by Jeffrey M Levine MD | Oct 7, 2018
Getting to Portugal for the international Urban Sketchers Symposium was not difficult, but demanded some tricky connections as I started off from Maine. So I took a ride on an 8 seater Cessna from Rockland to Boston where I caught a flight to Madrid. I was able to...
by Jeffrey M Levine MD | Sep 30, 2018
This past summer after the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Porto I flew to Madrid where I spent time sketching in the Museo del Prado. This amazing world-class museum is bursting with gems of art history and Spanish culture, along with a strict policy that bans...
by Jeffrey M Levine MD | Jul 8, 2018
Two years ago when coming back from a medical conference I picked up a puppy in Ohio and drove over 450 miles back to NYC. The drive took 2 days and we did some serious bonding, taking our time sketching along the way. Here is our journey… Our first stop was a...
by Jeffrey M Levine MD | Jul 4, 2018
I find sketching to be an antidote to the high-tech, socially networked, Instagrammed world we live in. After a year of sketching in a small sketchbook I decided to go larger, but this meant upgrading my equipment. I’d been looking for a plein air rig that would do...
by Jeffrey M Levine MD | Sep 30, 2017
The New York City subway is not the place you’d expect poetry, but I try to capture it in my art. I carry my sketchbooks every day down under the streets as I commute back and forth to work. My on-the-spot sketches are done in pencil, fountainpen, ink markers,...
by Jeffrey M Levine MD | Sep 16, 2017
Last May I spent time in Rome and Tuscany, eating wonderful food, drinking wine, and sketching the city and countryside where opportunities to make and view art abound. These are my choices of the best images from my trip. Take the stairs down to the banks of the...
