Another painting made on the beach of Aruba. Tranquil. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →Did you know yesterday marked the 80th Anniversary of the Federal Art Project? The Federal Art Project was a pretty significant contribution to American culture. Funded by the New Deal in 1935 it was one of the projects kicked off by President Franklin Roosevelt. The program employed as many as 10,000 independent artists across 100 communities […]
View post →It had been some time since I was in Disney proper—pen and pad in hand and a bag of drawing materials on my back. And it had been some time since I just had the day to draw, nothing else. No emails, no phone calls, no other schedules. Eating even became a second thought. Yes, it […]
View post →Just your average, every day sunset, over a rice field in Bali. Sigh… posted by Veronica
View post →I made some portraits in the sand while on vacation in Aruba. This is a drawing of my brother with an angry bird on his head. ~despina
View post →I just returned from a beautiful week in Aruba. Here is a moment I witnessed between a mother and her young daughter building sandcastles on the edge of the calm blue water. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →Each in their own world, this “collection of three” was sitting across from me while waiting for the 3:00 parade in the Magic Kingdom last week. People are often the hardest to ever draw. But OH WHAT A BLAST to try! I had so much fun!! Thank you Ronnie, Marg for such an incredible reconnect! Have a great […]
View post →In honor of the vast numbers of little Wild Kratt kids absorbing all the animal knowledge they can on this fine Saturday, a few elephants for scientific observation. Just a subtle turn of the head and shift of the leg and the whole dimension of the space they take up changes. Had a blast on […]
View post →Drawing a ship. Ink and bamboo pen. Eddie Peña
View post →Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando is a popular park in summer time. These people were desperately looking for a free table at which to eat their dinner. posted by Veronica
View post →Another drawing of Mr. Gandhi at Union Square. Many items will often be placed in Mr. Gandhi’s arms: flowers, pizza containers, etc.. On Sunday there was a bouquet of sunflowers placed in a Starbuck’s plastic coffee cup. There was some water placed in the cup to feed the sunflowers. This was placed on Gandhi’s right […]
View post →Figure drawing from a session at the Society of Illustrators. -Despina
View post →Finally! I saw a band, 2 bands actually, play outside of the US! Read more about it on my blog. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →The sweet melodious song carries me away as I stand in front with pen in hand loving every ounce of this special moment. Yes!!! – Michele Mexico in Epcot
View post →Spending a few days in Florida drawing with Dalvero. Yesterday couldn’t have been a better reminder of the heat and rain and general overall weather that only Mickey and crew can make you forget. Magic doesn’t begin to describe it. —Dominick
View post →Last weekend marked 50 years since the independence of Singapore, and they had a big party! I missed the party, but was in Singapore a few weeks earlier for the 6th International Urban Sketchers Symposium, and made the drawing above. It’s the solar powered ‘super trees’  from Gardens by the Bay, a beautiful fantasy-like place that […]
View post →I happened to be in Union Square on Sunday, August 9th. It was the one year anniversary of the black, unarmed teenager Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri. A group gathered to talk about the death and the death of many others involving the police. The man on the left in the drawing lost two […]
View post →Pen and ink on paper ~despina
View post →One of the cliffs at Étretat, France. This particular one is said to look like an elephant dipping its trunk into the water. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →Film III Yellow to be exact, but that is not story. I found myself drawing alongside my father the other day, oddly enough 2 years to the day I started documenting him. I pulled up to the shop a “little while” after he did. I couldn’t hear the presses running so I knew I was […]
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