A week in New York: Summer 2011 | Sketch Away: Travels with my sketchbook. It’s always exciting to go to New York: so much to see, so much to do, to eat and to sketch. And so many old friends to see. But it all begins with a long flight ( or if you have cheap tickets, a couple of flights with a long layover between them). Hari and the kids sleep. I sketch. Since we’re traveling with a 4 and a 6 year old, the first museum we hit is the Natural History Museum.
My favorite rooms are the ones with the dioramas. I loved the McQueen show at the Met. I love the view from the rooftop. Outside, a musician plays while we decompressed on the steps. I tried capturing the big blank spaces that is the architecture of the MOMA. And here is the famous Jackson Pollock canvas. So many buildings to draw: the Chrysler Building, the Empire State, the Flatiron, Brooklyn Bridge… When the kids were museumed out, we hit the parks. And Sheep Meadow in Central Park is always fun. Breakfast at Pick-A-Bagel, with it’s giant bagels and bialys. The fruit-seller by the subway station. Like this: