by Jeffrey M Levine | Feb 19, 2019
It was with sadness that I went downtown to Jerrys New York Central on 4th Avenue to grab what was left at the closing sale. Jerry’s was one of the last remaining art supply stores in Manhattan that had salespeople who know about the inventory and a friendly...
by Jeffrey M Levine | 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 | Jul 10, 2018
Benares, also known as Varanasi, is the holiest city in India and one of the oldest living cities of the world. It is built on the banks of the sacred river Ganges – a place of pilgrimage and home to Shiva, the volatile and compassionate god who is known as the...
by Jeffrey M Levine | 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 | Dec 1, 2017
Three years ago I biked across the Queensboro Bridge to admire and photograph the spraypainted graffiti murals at the fabled location in Long Island City known as 5Pointz. Painted on the walls of a 200,000 square foot factory building, 5Pointz had a reputation as the...
