A watercolor/gouache/pencil drawing made at the New York Botanical Garden. One of my favorite places to visit in the spring.

Greg Betza ©2013

Spring is here in NYC, and that means Union Square is hopping. Made this quick drawing while waiting to meet the students of my last Pratt Location Drawing class this semester. What a great group, I was sorry to see the class end. Posted by Veronica

A drawing made in Jackson Heights, NYC, my new home base!

Click HERE to read about it on my blog.

Posted by Veronica Lawlor

A model drawing made with the  ”Magic” pencil!  Multi colors – you never know what’s going to come out!

Margaret Hurst

A page out of one of my sketch books. Ink drawing. I don’t trust my mind to retain all my thoughts, so as ideas come to mind I like to put them to paper as fast as I can.

Eddie Peña

A small piece made at the Macy’s Flower Show in New York City a few years ago.

©2013 Greg Betza

More pencil drawings of my fellow New Yorkers.

Eddie Peña

Another watercolor from the Brooklyn Botanical gardens. Love that place. – Veronica

I had such a nice time last Tuesday at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden with my location drawing class that I brought Neil back on Saturday to see the garden in bloom. And boy, was it ever! More cherry trees were blossoming, along with magnolias, forsythias, daffodils, and a beautiful variety of tulips. Heavenly! We sat on a bench for a while and Neil drew while I played with watercolors. Did a little landscape study, above. Been thinking about watercolor painting in earnest the last few weeks, as I just finished the manuscript for our next Studio 1482 book: One Watercolor A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity Using Watercolor, Pattern, and Design. It’s the same kind of experiential book as One Drawing A Day, this time focused on one of my favorite mediums: watercolor. I really enjoyed writing it and even did a few color studies for the first few exercises, as did everyone else in the studio. Hope you can check it out, it’s available for pre-order right now on Amazon.com – click HERE for the link.

Happy week everyone – if it’s spring where you are, hope you are enjoying it as much as I am!

posted by Veronica Lawlor

I decided to grace the blog once again with Kika The Beautiful! Remembering a great drawing afternoon!

Margaret Hurst

A beautiful place in Spring…

Greg Betza ©2013

Pencil drawing of various people.

I have such a good time drawing people.

Eddie Peña

Yes, spring is finally here in New York City, and we are so happy to see her! I took my Location Drawing class from Pratt Institute to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens today, you should see the drawings they made! Great group! And I managed to steal 15 minutes for a little cup of coffee and a quick watercolor of this cherry blossom tree. It’s a little more orangey than pinky, but I like the effect, it feels right. And I’m loving this paper – Arches rough finish, it’s so luscious! Enjoy the sunshine, fellow New Yorkers!

posted by Veronica Lawlor

PS Speaking of watercolor…more news on that soon…

Aaahhh…..Kika the Beautiful! A wonderful model that we have been drawing for many years, incredible lady to draw and converse with while she is modeling! She’s so culturally oriented that her conversations as well as her “costumes” are pretty global and mythical. As I said, aaaaahhhhh, lovely! Thanks, Kika!

Margaret Hurst

Drawing of a boy. Ipad, Auryn Ink App. ~Despina

A water color drawing of manhattan rooftops on east 13th street.

Eddie Peña

These are some drawings I made one time at the NY Aquarium. I love watching jellyfish move. When I was growing up in St. Thomas there were  some jellyfish that would show up at Magens Bay on particularly hot days, which means pretty frequently! I didn’t wish to get stung by any of them but I couldn’t resist watching them swim around in the water. Sometimes a little one would touch my leg, but they weren’t really harmful, not like the big guys! Anyway, they were beautiful to watch as they pulsated through the beautiful blue water.

Margaret Hurst

About 10 years ago I spent a lot of time walking all around the city drawing just to draw. Here is one from that time.

Greg Betza ©2013

Took the opportunity the other day to draw some of my fellow E-train riders. The woman on the right was very suspicious of me…she didn’t seem sure of what I was doing, but she knew she didn’t like it! The lady on the left was engrossed with her smart phone…similar to the woman in Margaret’s post yesterday. It’s an epidemic…

Please visit my blog to see more drawings of last week’s post on Nick Cave’s Heard NY in Grand Central. Thanks!

Posted by Veronica Lawlor

This scene cracked me up! Two commuters, I believe they were friends, were on the bus going uptown. She was directing her conversation to him and he was plugged into his iphone, completely oblivious to her conversation! Wait, you have to be exchanging words and thoughts to be having a conversation, right? So I guess this was a monologue…they were both oblivious to each other’s existence!

Margaret Hurst