Father and son hanging out in Central Park.

Eddie Peña

I met this lovely lady on Main Street last January, and she was kind enough to let me draw her portrait while she lectured me on the evils of alcohol (not really, but that is a better story than what actually happened).

Took this drawing I made of an Afro-Cuban band in New Orleans a few years ago and messed around with it in the computer. It was fun to create the brown line and add some music/energy marks in bright colors. This was an awesome band, the old Cuban guys really knew how to create a wall of energy with their bongo drums. The crowd loved it too, everyone was dancing around me while I was drawing. It is one of my favorite New Orleans memories, on good old Frenchman Street.

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Our One Drawing A Day book is available now! Stay tuned for an announcement about our Flickr group, so you can post One Drawing A Day along with the Studio 1482 illustrators.

                       Nature’s Government, one of the illustrations for Journal of Empire Studies. Another really fun illustration to think about, work on and execute!

Margaret Hurst

Every year during the Fall my memories find their way back to Paris. And very few things evoke in me the feeling of being there than those distinctive claypots on the rooftops. During my 4 month stay many years ago, I lived in the tiniest apartment you could imagine and had one tiny window to look out from. And the view was spectacular- rooftops and claypots as far as my eye could see. I would look out that window until the buildings lost all dimension and became shifting shapes of gray and orange. And at dawn and dusk, a blur of blues. -Despina

Hidden back behind the trees.

-Greg Betza

You know I once had a teacher who said for each day you don’t study your craft you lose the ability to call yourself “an artist” and fall into the category of “I once was”. 

The Dalvero Academy is hosting a fall series of life drawing sessions. So it feels really good to say, “Here I am today … an artist completely embracing every ounce of study it brings”. Below is a drawing from last weeks class. 

Charcoal on paper by Michele Bedigian

Thumbnail for a painting called  “Heart of The Carousel”

By: Eddie Peña

Few things evoke associations of affluence in me like a plate overflowing with goodies like muffins, fruits, and cream. I always associate them with a lovely weekend brunch, aka complete happiness.

Barcelona is such a beautifully surreal city. The architect, Antonio Gaudi, helped make it so with his organic, wonderfully undulating architecture. It snakes it’s way around the city and winds up in Park Guell, a massively exotic architectural fantasy land set atop a mountain looking down on Gaudi’s obsession, Sagrada Familia. I enjoyed the magical feeling of the Park Guell, and especially loved escaping the heat in this open atrium with the sunflower inspired roof, listening to a lone musician playing. I was not the only one so inclined. I drew this last year on my ‘art holiday’. Thinking it’s time for another one soon…:)

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A lovely day at the China Pavilion at Epcot in Orlando. So many characters…so many drawings…so many lines…so many marks…so little time…

Margaret Hurst

China is in the news so much these days. I’ve been making drawings and gathering information. -Despina

Here is another watercolor created at the New York Botanical Garden.

-Greg Betza

The Metropolitan Museum of Art … is a tree of life to the worlds greatest art. It’s my church, my schoolyard, my home away from home. Just 20 minutes from the house there’s no better place to be – Michele

It is finally starting to look like autumn. Today it feels like it too. —Dominick

While waiting for the band “Architecture in Helsinki” to come onstage at Webster Hall I had the opportunity to draw the fans from an unusual vantage point: Perched slightly above them, atop the speakers. This crowd was quite mellow and friendly. The full review of the show (and more drawings) are on my music blog.

A drawing of the Zakim Bridge in Boston. I love the elegance of this bridge. I remember being very cold when I made this drawing, and there was a group of street people with a somewhat menacing air right near me, but neither of those things could break the impact seeing this bridge in twilight had on me. It was magical.

The bridge, designed by  Ruchu Hsu, based on a concept by Christian Menn, was opened in 2003. It was named for civil rights activist Leonard P. Zakim, who spoke of “building bridges between peoples.” In 2002, 14 circus elephants walked across the bridge to prove that it could hold up to 112,000 pounds. Wish I was there to see that!

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PS – Our book, One Drawing A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration & Mixed Media, has just received it’s first review, from the Library Journal. You can read it on my personal blog, HERE.

Join Indra and take a cosmic journey on the elephant of your choice and see where it takes you…

Margaret Hurst

here is a study I made of balloons passing each other in the sky. -Despina

Tailgating at a football game in 83° weather is such a treat for fans living in the North-East. Here’s a drawing of some people standing around eating and drinking in their shorts, flip-flops and of course football jerseys.

Greg Betza ©2011