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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · Jun 26

I 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.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · Jun 24

I 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.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · Jun 16

A little something I did at Natural History museum. #urbansketchers

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · Jun 15

Me drawing on a train ride through the Swiss Alps.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · Jun 10

These 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.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · Jun 2

People 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.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 29

Watch a squirrel in a fancy fedora drawing a Brooklyn bodega. #urbansketchers

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 28

The kind of thing I see in Manhattan everyday.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 27

A drawing of a vegan’s best friends. #urbansketch

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 21

I did a drawing in my own neighborhood. It’s something I rarely do because I’m too dumb to think of it.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 19

I wonder what the artists who made these phenomenal masks would have thought of my wacky drawing. I’d assume we’d be copacetic.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 16

Two art dudes drawing tulips.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 14

My 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.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 12

Self portrait. When I don’t shave for a few days, I get a bit scruffy. At least I got the likeness perfect.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 9

I’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.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 7

I 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.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 6

Me drawing at Citifield.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 5

I 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.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 3

The kind of thing I see wandering around Brooklyn.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 2

These 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.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · May 1

My YouTube channel has surpassed 2 million views.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · Apr 30

I 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.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · Apr 29

Dancin in the park.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · Apr 28

I 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.

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Tommy Kane @tommykane.bsky.social · Apr 25

WTF.

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