last sketch from my October 2014 trip to Istanbul. This is the view from a coffee shop near Istanbul Modern in the Karikoy neighboorhood.

Storyboarding storyboarding

Preliminary sketch for Act 1 of THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST at Muhlenberg College. It's a rarely produced Beth Henley play set in late 1970s Mississippi. I did this sketch on the hilariously named Beiber Tourways which services Allentown PA. Sketching on public transit I both a necessity and good for my craft cause it keeps my drawings loose.

house in the Balat district in Istanbul

mosque and school in the Balat district of Istanbul

my copy or a charcoal sketch by Polish painter of orientalist themes, Jan Matejko

my notes from the Pera Museum, Istanbul, October 2014

Nevizade Caddesi in Istanbul. This is from my trip there last month. 

trying to figure out how to turn five arches on wheels into a 'magical palace'. Ready, go! Obviously I haven't cracked it yet.

the view from Ara Cafe across the street from Galatasaray Lisesi

views of the New Mosque. New for Istanbul is relative-- the mosque was completed in 1660-65

the view in a Bosphorus ferry from Kadıköy neighborhood in Asia to Eminonu in Europe

an art nouveau building by Raimondo Tommaso D'aronco. It's across from the post office museum in the Eminonu neighborhood in Istanbul. The waiter at the coffee shop where I did this sketch asked me to draw his girlfriend as a graduation present. The sketch was unsuccessful, but he gave me lots of free Turkish coffee.

A frescoe inside Chora Church or Kariye Muzesi in Istanbul

Haydarpasa train station from under a coffee shop awning. Until recently you could catch a train from here to Tehran.

Mosque on the water on the Asian side of Istanbul, looking out at the Bosphorus

A tour boat loading passengers for Kiz Kulesi (princess island) in the middle of the Bosphorus. The view is from the Uskudar neighborhood on the Asian side.

Brunch in Istanbul with my brother and the his friend Izzy

some mosque

 

some other mosque

Galata Tower, all is Istanbul

The crowd at the bar at JFK terminal 7 prior to departure of Turkish Airlines Flight #1 to Istanbul. Off to vacation!

Goodbye Whitney museum. From my pocket sketchbook.

Copy of a Rembrandt landscape. Don't know why.

 preliminary storyboard ideas for a production of Nutcracker at Interlochen Center for the arts in 2015. What's tricky about this production is that they have a 72' wide proscenium and NO FLY SPACE. All the scenery has to be sculptural units that move from the wings. How do you design a Nutcracker without any backdrops? I'm going to find out in the next month or so.

Playing around with double-sided arches for a production of 'nutcracker' in 2015. Early early days on this project