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“I took a picture because it’ll last longer.”
Kick-Ass award-winning #bookcover designer: @henryseneyee_design; illustration: @henryseneyee_draws
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Seriously Celebrating THE NEW YORKER “From Cover to Cover” Live at Joe’s Pub / October 6, 2026 / 7 PM - An evening of THE NEW YORKER illustrators telling stories of the first time they had the honor of illustrating their first covers. A wonderful and inspiring night meeting friends. @newyorkermag @joespub Ricardo Siri How do you turn a bad sketch easily into an amazing sketch? @porliniers Ricardo Siri You draw a frame around it and add THE NEW YORKER logo above it! Genius! 👏👏👏 @porliniers Anita Kunz! @anitakunz Anita Kunz’s first cover @anitakunz Sharing the excitement she felt turning into a nightmare when she was sued by another artist for plagiarism . Many artist can tap into the zeitgeist and come up with similar ideas independently from each other. Everything has been done. She eventually won. I felt her PTSD Showing how life has changed during Covid by illustrating a yearbook of masked graduating students. @anitakunz Grace Lynne Haynes @bygracelynne Loved her story of just starting her career and having the opportunity to create a cover. On how she worked on including herself and Black History in her submission. They loved it. Final painting due in two days! The Great NEW YORKER cover art editor / art director Françoise Mouly @fmtoon - I thought I saw Art Spiegelman in the audience. I wanted to tell him that when I started my career in book publishing @pantheonbooks, I worked on the mechanical, and refined the maps and logo for his Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel MAUS. My small part. THE unapologetically apologetic Barry Blitt! Sorry. Barry Bliit So nice to see Chip Kidd there! It was like meeting billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. We both started at Random House at the same time. Good times! A long long time ago. @chip__kidd I wasn’t sure if this was Marc Yankus. I texted him this photo but he didn’t pick up his phone. But when the quiz winner was announced as him. I then knew. He won an artist autographed copy of their coffee table book FROM COVER TO COVER. Want! @marcyankus Hi Marc! @marcyankus Award winningest funniest illustrator James Yang was the quizmaster. @yangblog Golfer James Yang @yangblog Nice to see you Ellen Weinste
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“It’s about time” —Block Island Crew 2026 Painting our oar to add to The Oar Restaurant collection @theoar_bi - Acrylics on varnished oar Painting by Henry Sene Yee, with assistance from Sophie, Ysabel and Roman 06 #blockisland #blockisland2026hsyee Acrylic paints and brushes courtesy of @shainar_ny and @nancyf6 Roman drawing the spacing and order of our names on a paper towel as a guide @romannoodless @s0phi3.nyc hand painted our names using @romannoodless name order and placement spaced out on a paper napkin as a layout guide. Lovely shooting star by Ysabel 💫 @geniusiwas @nancyf6 Love her switch to a cursive-style 2026 The North Lighthouse and beacon against a sunset and starry night sky, with our tandem bikes riding by “The Mudslide” Our official drink of Block Island, “I think I like the well mudslide with ice cream over the top shelf!” — @simone007 “It’s About Time!” Great slogan by @nancyf6 to capture how time slows down when we’re here, and how after all these many, many years, we finally all got together to paint our oar to display at The Oar Restaurant! Everyone contributed on choosing what our favorite things of being here was: witnessing the beautiful sunsets, the wraparound starry night skies overhead, catching shooting stars, our house next to the North Lighthouse, biking, beaching, and Mudslides, and so many more memories we had no room to add. Spray painting the protective varnish coat We wanted to paint the tiny seashells we found on the beach to separate our names. But keep it simple and clean. Simone handing off our just painted baby to the Oar manager. He put our Baby Oar in a corner. Customer Oars are displayed on every inch of wall and hanging off of every ceiling surface inside the restaurant, and all around the restaurant’s exterior, and a little shack by the cornhole toss. One of the many artist with the finished oar. The Block Island 2026 Crew at Chrysalis Cottage
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“Morning fog / Block Island” #blockisland2026hsyee #pleinair #watercolor Illustration © 2026 Henry Sene Yee #HenrySeneYee - nycsketchers urbansketch urbansketchers
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Montpellier, France for the day. Getting to JFK via E train to the air train was so easy. And 666% cheaper than taking a Lyft. Better to use that money for wine. Started with a full body pat down and free cocktails & amazing meatballs in the lounge. Air France premium is a wonderful airline. Saw THE DRAMA w/ Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. See a beautiful couple doing terrible things makes it enjoyable. Rest was difficult with three crying babies in unison. Of course they all fell to sleep just as we were making out approach to land in CDG Paris. Making a connecting flight to Montpellier was quick. Then a meandering bus airport to center. It was hot but dry. Very comfortable. The hotel was charming. Simone’s room was ready at noon. Mine at 3. We crashed and didn’t wake till 6. She took a dip in the pool. Then we walked a short block to Place de la Comédie. This city is so charming and the sky light is soft and beautiful. We sat in the piazza eating mussels and frites and people watched. And strolled through the park and down alleys. The city was not crowded and people were friendly and living life. Just a one afternoon stop before heading to Nîmes further east in southern France. We both found ourselves in the lobby unwilling to sleep yet. Kitchen was closed for a snack. But they had bread. And we ordered a Negroni night cap. Might as well.
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Der Schnee er kehrt zurück, ein Schirm hilft hier zum Glück. Newyork und andere Städte traf es kalt, ich hab es dann so hingemalt. Auf Papier ist Wetter halb so wild, drum häng ich mir dies Bild. #nycblizzard #watercolors #snow #memories #nycmemories
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“Peter Brown “Pete the Street” solo exhibit, Chelsea NYC” @petethestreet1 @detourgallery @messumswest 09/05/2025 - My 9+ favorite things seen today (I couldn’t pick just 9) - Plein Air Painter Extraordinaire! I love his work. I was familiar with his painting done around London and England. But then I saw him painting some of my favorite off the beaten Chinatown / LES corners. As an #urbanSketcher and #streetphotographer, I was so happy that he was in NYC and saw the beauty in the same places I did. Blessed that there’s a gallery show here in NYC till Sept 13. To see the actual paintings in person and examine the color palette and delicate brushstrokes and massing of shapes and temperature values like John Singer Sargent is a rare education. #MyNineFaveThingsHSYee #pleinair #petethestreet #peterBrown #MyTwentyFaveThingsHSYee
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NYC!
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[new!?] // part 2 or part 1.1 into the henryverse based on @hsyee's thread and thanks to @ericwybenga's observation =P #illustration #comic #vector #sketch #sketchbook #thread #threads
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[new!] // a comic inspired by @hsyee's thread =) #illustration #comic #vector #sketch #sketchbook #thread #threads
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Happy Thanksgiving 2023! #ChuChanSeneThanksgiving
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NYCC 2023 gets a ♥️ because of friends, authors, colleagues, art (that pizza rat trash fire! robert smith & cats!), outstanding peanut butter toast, and people dressed like killer marshmallows. #nycc #nycc2023
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#selfie #reflection
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