…for the holidays.  -Despina

I’ve been doing some work in New York City these last few weeks and have made a few drawings of the “happy” commuters. Here are two.

If you’d like to see more, check out my blog where there is a series of these drawings. -Greg Betza

Happy Chanukah! – and the warmest regards for a blessed holiday season, Michele

Wishing everyone a Very Merry Christmas and  joyful holiday season.—Dominick

Studies for project:  Earth vs Humans

Those who know me and my work will recognize the theme of the garden as a metaphor for paradise (home). I remember eating strawberries, gooseberries, currants, plums, peaches, apples and hazelnuts directly from the bush as a kid playing at our garden at #28. This page is part of an ongoing project on the history of feminism (notice the woman busy working the earth). It also makes me want to start a victory garden and eat freshly-harvested collard greens.

-Kati Nawrocki

This is an Indian tiger that I illustrated recently for a newsletter for A&K luxury travel. I did several illustrations for them, but I especially enjoyed doing the tiger. I was thinking when I did it of the Jungle Book and the version I had as a child, illustrated by Aldren Watson. Rich, luscious watercolors that really brought the story to life for me. I wanted to get that lush feeling in the jungle behind the tiger…

posted by Veronica Lawlor

Check out our new Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/groups/onedrawingaday/

You can do the exercises in our One Drawing A Day book and post them, for feedback from our Studio 1482 illustrators and other One Drawing A Day participants! Don McNulty has been posting regularly – great work, Don!

I was experimenting with patterned  fantasy landscapes some time ago. I was thinking about vineyard landscapes and chess board landscapes and tree trunk landscapes and…

Margaret Hurst

This frame is from a storyboard I created about St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.

-Despina

Here is a drawing made from a model a few weeks ago at the Dalvero Academy.

©2011 Greg Betza

..there was a girl who dreamt of castles and pageantry. She learned to discover it really does exist!

…and it’s magical. Above is a page from my sketchbook of a few thumbnails of the carousel (and company) in the Magic Kingdom. - Michele

Remember when they gave you a wing pin of the airline when you flew? Flight attendants were “stewardesses” and “stewards”, and of course you had to make sure to book your seat as far away from the smoking section as you could, as nothing smells quite as bitter and disgusting as recycled air tinged with kerosene and stale smoke (even if you are a smoker), and everyone ordered Bloody Marys and Rum and Cokes with their dinner. The first time I asked for a wing pin and was handed a plastic sticker i vaguely sensed more disposable times were afoot…

by Kati Nawrocki

I love the steamboat at Walt Disney World in Orlando. I have learned so much by drawing that boat over the years. The “wedding cake” my teacher used to call it. One class he made me sit on it every day for a week and draw. Wow. And now I send my students there to draw, when Margaret and I take our Dalvero classes to the parks. We’re going again this summer – I can’t wait, seems like too long since I visited my old friend.

Posted by Veronica Lawlor

I was at my friends’ house this weekend and had the pleasure of seeing a mama and her baby in action. It reminded me of this drawing I had done awhile ago…

Mama teaching baby elephant how to pick a branch from a tree!

Margaret Hurst

I’ve got a few of the model with that red dress on. -Despina

A drawing from a recent performance. Have a nice week everyone!

With December in full swing this brisk sunny Sunday, Ronnie’s post this week inspired thoughts of warm, tempting days gone by for me too. Above is a reportage study for a larger painting project I started in Animal Kingdom. Happy Sunday! – Michele

Sometimes  a blanket is hat.—Dominick