A Roman fantasy, I drew this in the Piazza Navona, just before enjoying some nice gelatto. I miss Rome. Posted by Veronica.

So it looks like the cpdsa will be able to open it’s “doors” in Central Park this April, barely.  So if you feel so inclined, please donate whatever you can to the Central Park Dance Skaters Association.  They’ll appreciate it! Thanks!

Margaret Hurst

Another night at Barnes and Noble. I like to end the day there and read and people watch and prep for the day ahead. Apparently, many other people do, too. Monday night was a full house. It was very tough finding a place to sit at the café, but once I did, I didn’t budge for a long while. I sipped tea, read through a few books and drew some faces. Here is a drawing of a man with neatly kept hair style and a distinctive birthmark as he was reading a magazine. -Despina

I spent the morning of February 14th (yes, Valentine’s Day) making this drawing outside of  the American Museum of Natural History in NY. It was a warm, beautiful day, the first I can remember of this year.

drawing by Greg Betza

This past Saturday Eddie posted a study called playing with patterns that I absolutely loved. It reminded me of a watercolor series I was experimenting with years back in the Japanese gardens in Epcot.

Then influenced by the beautiful patterns presented in traditional Japanese kimono designs, it was hard for me to resist exploring what can happen when the natural patterns a garden make and the theatrical patterns a woman make merge together.

Watercolor by Michele Bedigian

Reasons that make the week seem to fly by.

-Dominick Santise

I enjoy studying patterns, this is one of hundreds of experimental pattern play.

Eddie Peña

Another drawing from my visit to Disney World, of American folk singers performing standards in the lobby of the American pavillion. I am an immigrant to this country, so this kind of stuff makes me a little emotional, and the music was also quite beautiful…

A little drawing I was inspired to do one day at the Shakespeare Garden in Central Park, New York City. It’s a lovely garden, if you haven’t been, right behind the theater where they perform the Shakespeare in the Park during the summer months.

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. – William Shakespeare

Posted by Veronica

These are two people who hang out at the cpdsa skating circle.  They are not the traditional skaters you see in the circle.  The lady on the left likes to dance, and from what I have observed she is very professional, and passionate.  The other, the gentleman on the right, is dancing, but I don’t know what he is dancing on.  They are the strangest looking “shoes” that actually look like they belong on the moon.  Good exercise anyway you slice it!

If you can help out the cpdsa they would really appreciate it, so would the NOT skaters that join in with them!

Margaret Hurst

using my left hand, from the model, with my two year old on my lap and singing Yellow Submarine. Can’t beat that. -Despina