By Danny Gregory

Oregon and Back

Jack and I just spent a week driving 1,000 miles or so (a crazy distance for New Yorkers) across Oregon and back to visit our pal, d.price. It was the first time Jack has seen the huge scale of...

This Week in Vancouver

Click To Play A cheery video wrap-up from noted international personality and raconteur, Danny Gregory...

Tom Kane just came back from several weeks of drawing in the Far East. Everywhere he went, in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and China, he drew big crowds when he drew. People would sit by him for hours,...

Amster-dam fine pics

Here are some snaps from our recent trip to Amsterdam....

Amsterdam Journal

Here are some pages from the tiny journal I kept recently in Amsterdam. For a more full-blown gallery with larger scans and more legible writing, visit here....

Creeping down the Promenade

The effect of globalization on the landscape and how we draw it.

Booking to LA

I just started working on my 45th illustrated journal and decided to give myself a treat by binding up a variety of really nice papers into a special book. My new journal is an inch thick slab of 8x12"...

Dibujo en México*

Notes from my trip to Mexico and some thoughts on travel journaling.

Prash mail

My pal, Prashant Miranda, just sent me some of his journal pages. His work is lovely and I have included several of his drawings in my new book. He writes: Here are my initial pages of my travels, from...

Enrique Flores

Crazy good traveling illustrated journalisto. If you haven't yet, check out his work here....

Drawing fire

I wrote about Steve Mumford last year when his work was only available on Artnet. Now he has published a sumptuous book collecting all of the watercolors and observations he made during his visits to war-torn Iraq. He told...

Technologica Artistica di Roma

So there have been various technical questions from readers who wonder what sort of mountain of gear I have brought with me here to the Holy City to get shit* onto paper and onto this site. It's an important...

Playing it Lento

Two Roman drawings that took a while. The first about an hour, the second, close to it, I was moved by police three times during the first which screwed up my sight lines a bit. The second I'm less...

A conversion at St. Peter's

I'm not the tourist type. My neighborhood in New York is always overrun by people wearing comfortable clothes and cameras clutching guide books and asking "Scusi, where Greenwich Village?" I am always gracious but wish they would walk a...

Doin' the Hood

I have constrained my drawing to my hotel's neighborhood which in Rome is not much of a liability. One could spend the rest of one's life drawing this city � the architecture is so rich and organic, the light...

No longer Romin'

Yesterday I managed to throw down a quick drawing at the Trevi fountain before becoming overwhelmed by sun and jetlag. This morning, chipper and well-rested, I packed up my gear to head over to the Vatican. A block from...

Left Coast Digs

Easter with the Unressurected

A few years ago, I saw a documentary about the Hollywood Forever cemetery. It is the final resting place of all sorts of movie illuminati, from Rudolph Valentino to Mel Blanc, but after a century was rundown and on...

The Art of LA

My first proper day of in LA and I devoted it to art. I awoke early and went out to draw in the little park across the way. There I wrote: "I find this tree quite sexy. Its limbs...

French Technique

For those wondering how I did what I did in Paris: I drew on heavy bond either with a Rapidoliner (.25 and .50) or an Art (fountain) Pen . I then pulled out a Niji waterbrush loaded with black...

J'aime bien Paris

We had a terrific visit to Paris over Thanksgiving. We arrived (via Frankfurt) on Thursday morning and spent the day in a bit of a jet-lagged fog (I can't sleep on planes) but did quite a lot of drawing....

Leg Three, II

"Mi Casa"When I was in San Francisco, I stayed in a little guest house called "Balmy Casa" . It was a lovely apartment that even came with two bikes to rise up and down (puff) the hills of the...

Leg Three, I

Last stop on my cross-country trip: the Mission district of San Francisco to visit my e-pal, Andrea Scher. If not for Andrea, this blog wouldn't exist. Last December, she convinced me that I could and should start a blog...

Leg Two, IV

The highlight of my visits to Oregon is always staying in Dan's place, Indian River Ranch. Over the past decade or so, he has lived on a meadow on a river bank and had erected various sorts of residences...

Leg Two, III

Last winter, Dan Price's son, Shane, volunteered to make a sculpture of his school's mascot. Dan offered to help. Before long, the project has mushroomed, the eagle was seven feet tall and, while Shane put in a couple of...

Leg Two, II

Joseph has an interesting blend of residents. There are cowboys and construction workers like you'd expect in a small Western town. There are also several bronze foundries so a healthy art community has sprung up. There are aging hippies...

Leg Two, Part I

Upon arriving in Portland, I began the longest drive of my life, across Oregon. I am a native NYer and don't drive much so tackling the endless, dead straight roads of the West was a new and somewhat daunting...

Leg One IV

Here are a few more souvenirs from Minneapolis. I so envy Roz her neat and orderly studio. What you don't see are the big computer/scanner/printer end of her studio as well as a second room crammed with journals, research...

Leg One, III

After two zoos, we decided to check out some cadavers. I love natural history museums and Minneapolis's is a pip � the specimens were posed in wonderful dioramas with wax leaves and meticulous details. I enjoyed standing close so...

Cross Country. Leg One. Part II.

Our drawing trip began at a hilarious junk store called Axman filled with my favorite sort of drawing subject - intricate gizmos. I couldn't make up my mind what to tackle until I saw Roz and her mini paint...

Cross Country. Leg One. Part I.

I have just returned from a cross country trip to visit some of my journaling friends. My first stop was in Minneapolis where I spent several days with Roz Stendahl whom I first encountered through the 45 wonderful journals...

Chilling in the sun

We've had many more exotic holidays: Paris, Florence, Sudan, Baghdad, Cleveland, but this year we sunbathed on the banks of the mainstream. We packed up board games, playing cards, fat novels, guitars, bathing costumes, and all drove to the...

Jerusalem Journal revisited

My favorite online magazine, the Morning News, has taken my Jerusalem Journal and given it new life. I did some revisions to the text, the images have been rescanned, cleaned up and polished and the whole thing looks like...

Bell weather

I just returned from a stay at Richard Bell's little house in Yorkshire. Despite the lousy weather, we drew and painted every day, touring York and the surrounding little villages, wandering in the countryside, then coming home for great...

Old York

I shall be visiting my pal, Richard Bell, in Yorkshire for a few days. Back at you on Tuesday or so. (This lovely watercolor is from Richard's site; do drop by and see how a real pro does it)....

Jerusalem Journal VI

This is the last installment of my Jerusalem Journal; I was there for a week and the discussions that have gone on here online have extended that experience for another week. However, having gone to the trouble of keeping the...

Jerusalem Journal V

The colors, the light, the vegetation, and the temperature remind me a lot of our visit to Florence. All the buildings in Jerusalem must be built from local stone, so the landscape is fairly uninterruptedly sandy; occasionally there are...

Jerusalem Journal - Sidebar discussion

From: Diane To: Danny Hi Danny I know you don't want inflamed responses to your harsh take on Israel, but I just can't help myself.� Your dismissive comments cut me to the heart.� If someone you admired said they thought...

Jerusalem Journal IV

Israeli supermarkets have certainly changed over the past decade when they were poorly lit and stocked; the merchandise seemed a bit suspect, underfresh or overfrozen; and generally third world. Now the selection is almost as vast as my local...

Jerusalem Journal III

The Damascus Gate: I made my way out of the tourist section and into the Palestinian part: fruit and veg stands with old women selling piles of grape leaves, brown baby chicks, radishes; butcher shops with tales full of...

Jerusalem Journal II

The Old City is fairly sparsely populated by tourists, but the shop keepers still caw and claw at every passerby. They flog t-shirts that say obscene things in Hebrew, hookahs, synthetic Oriental rugs and 3-D postcards of Jesus on...

Jerusalem Journal I

I have just returned from a few days in Jerusalem and over the next week I shall doll up and dole out the journal I kept there. As my writing can be a little tough to read, I have transcribed...

Doings

I have been off on various adventure-like things over the past week. I spent two days with my friend, Julie Dermansky. She lives on a former farm on fifty acres in Upstate New York. The barn is now a...

This will go on your permanent record

I just returned from a few days in South Florida as the guest of the Miami Ad School. I'd been invited to teach students about illustrated journaling and was frankly a little ambivalent. It seemed a bit weird to...

The Color of Water

My favorite online magazine is running the journal pages from our vacation last week. If you don't already, check out the Morning News daily for news, stories and razor sharp wit....

Booking a vacation

I dream very intensely on the first few days of a vacation, as my brain reorganizes its hard drive. Weird hallucinogenic dreams feather into each other, dredging up dramas, ancient and new. Old bosses, old addresses, old mistakes, reappear in...

Tanned, semi-rested and ready

We just came back from a pleasantish week in the Dominican Republic. Every so often, I would stagger out of my deck chair and draw some of the scenery. In lieu of sending you a postcard, I have put together...