Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 26/06/2025I got a call from the great French illustrator, Marielle Durand. She was in town for a few days and wanted to draw with me. We met in Central Park with the NYC Urban Sketchers at the boat house in Harlem. 0110
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I draw what I see and I see some really weird things. Thankfully I’m not what you would call, normal. This sketch is a combo of museum of natural history, botanical gardens, and a few photographs I searched out. 2150
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 16/06/2025A little something I did at Natural History museum. #urbansketchers 1140
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Me drawing on a train ride through the Swiss Alps. 0131
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 10/06/2025These two leaves on the ground demanded to be painted. I usually draw but these guys were insistent that I break out the old paint tubes to see if I still have any skill left. 1120
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 02/06/2025People love to eat shrimp even though they don’t know what they’re really consuming. Crustaceans can be a wolf in shrimp’s clothing. Farm-raised shrimp from Asia and South America have flooded the US market. 0120
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Watch a squirrel in a fancy fedora drawing a Brooklyn bodega. #urbansketchers 1465
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 21/05/2025I did a drawing in my own neighborhood. It’s something I rarely do because I’m too dumb to think of it. 0200
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 19/05/2025I wonder what the artists who made these phenomenal masks would have thought of my wacky drawing. I’d assume we’d be copacetic. 0130
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 14/05/2025My friend Stephen and I were in the Botanical Gardens drawing the last vestiges of tulips before they perished. I knew the flowers alone on the page would not be enough to make an interesting drawing. At least that’s how I saw it. A few felines seemed to do the trick. 1222
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Self portrait. When I don’t shave for a few days, I get a bit scruffy. At least I got the likeness perfect. 0120
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 09/05/2025I’m out on the street again drawing after a winter hiatus sketching indoors. I used to draw on the street no matter the weather but I’m not that dude anymore. Here is a glimpse of me in the wild sketching in my dandy outfit. 0150
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 07/05/2025I went to East Chinatown with my friend, Steve to draw a bit of architecture. It’s not so easy to find a psychic storefront above a print shop with a liquor store and bong shop on either side but we did it. Both of us sat in the dirt divider between two bike paths so we didn’t get plowed by e-bikes. 1180
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 05/05/2025I went to my first baseball game of the season. Watched the Mets beat the Phillies. I spent most of the game intently sketching the stadium. The people around me were very amused. They all wanted to know if I traveled to all the other stadiums to draw them too. I said that was too ambitious. 1222
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 02/05/2025These great girls were a sister duo modeling at the Annual Draw-A-Thon in Manhattan. Of course, I drew them. Then this other model caught my eye. My black Pental and Uniball pens were put through the ringer that day. 0100
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I went to the High School of Art & Design 21st Annual Draw-A-Thon which is held in the school. The gym and cafeteria were filled with little stages where 15 models were posing. It started at 10 in the morning and went until 7PM. I put in about 6 hours. This model seemed to be 7 feet tall. 090
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I drew this in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Two girls approached me and wanted to chat. One of them addressed me for the first time in my life as, “sir.” That seemed to open the floodgates. Then they both barraged me with “sirs.” I’m at that age now. It felt good if you want to know the truth. 0130
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 24/04/2025My drawing cohorts figured out that if they buy their ticket online for the Natural History Museum, they can pay whatever they want. So they enter for twenty five cents. I’m a member, so no problemo. They chose a rhino to sketch. I gave it my best shot. 0101
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 21/04/2025I made it to the Botanical Gardens to draw my first flowers of the season. As I was drawing, I heard my name being called. It turned out to be some of the ladies of the Urban Sketchers. We got to hang a bit. Then I went home and added the animals to my sketch. 0220
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 18/04/2025I went to see Robert Crumb interviewed at the 92nd street Y the other night. It was for his new book release. A biography by Dan Nadel. 0140
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Smoking skeletons, yellow-eyed monkeys, green skulls, and floating goldfish, are all a part of drawing at the Museum of Natural History. On the other hand, it could just be that my failing eyesight creates things for me to draw that are not really there. 0100
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I spent a few days in Florida at my cousin, Eileen’s house. In between swims, I managed to make a drawing. 0120
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 10/04/2025I grouped together in a video, all the illustrations I did of Renaissance artists drawn as if they were alive today. 070
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 07/04/2025These are North Western indigenous masks I drew at the Museum of Natural History. My cohorts observed me jamming many into a single once white blank page. My jamming is different from the way musicians do it. Also my jamming doesn’t involve sugar, cooking, and jarring. They call me Jam Master Kane. 0190
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Went here for lunch in the East Village, NYC. Like a black and white drawing come to life. 091
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I’ve been drawing so many animals at the Museum of Natural History and condiments from the table of my local diner because it’s been too cold to hang outside. I’ve stuck to drawing things indoors. So, I drew this random face to break up the monotony. #sketchbook 1171
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Look at me while I look at the model and then look back at my paper, then look back at the model. Watch a small sliver of the head turning exercises I do at Studio Slew on a Sunday. Drawing depends on your ability at seeing and if I may say so myself, I look good. I snuck a looking good joke in. 0100
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I returned to life drawing class at Studio Slew. Friendliest artists I’ve ever run into. It’s very easy to meet new people. I always enjoy myself there. The model wore a fantasy costume. I will say I’m more than double the age of everyone. The elderly stateman squirrel artman. 1160
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Combining two animals into one while drawing at Museum of Natural History. #urbansketchers 0180
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 20/03/2025My friend Stephen chose the eagle to draw, in fact he chose the African masks too. I like when I can keep my brain shut off in the museum. I go on autopilot to do the drawing. #sketchbook 0271
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Latest sketchbook page. Not sure I can explain it. #sketchbook #sketchbookpage 2312
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 14/03/2025A drawing I did at the Met with NYC UrbanSketchers. 0100
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I found a great new life drawing class at Studio Slew in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 0211
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Sitting next to a Polar Bear drawing is quite a strange feeling, even if the bear is taxidermy. I even felt cold. It was so large, I needed two sketchbook pages to fit most of him in. 0271
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Self-Promotion. Unruly artistic type even at two years on earth. #selfpromotion 0160
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Drawing I did at a life drawing class. The weekly Drink-n-draw in Brooklyn. 0150
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Back to my local diner early in the morning so I can draw all alone. When my friends show up later, I get my vegan breakfast and show off my new sugar doodle to them. #urbansketchers 1310
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 03/03/2025David Johansen passed away Friday. I put him in an ad campaign in the 1980s. We became friends. I art directed his Buster Poindexter MTV videos. We spent endless night carousing together. He will be sorely missed by the world. 1130
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Another sketchbook finished. An 8” X 10” Stillman & Birn Alpha series, stuffed with my nonsensical, mental gymnastic doodles. 2373
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I went to the Hall of Mexico and Central America Culture at the Natural History Museum. Then I proceeded to jam my sketchbook page with as many art objects as humanly possible. 0191
Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Watch me draw a moose. That’s the weirdest sentence I’ve ever written. 0212
