A date is a measure of time. It’s a way to gauge where we are, where we’ve been and dream of where we’re going. Today is the ninth day of the ninth month in two thousand and nine and I’d bet a dollar (or two) that there are places in the world right now as you read […]
View post →In my world, yesterday was no ordinary Monday. It was August 31st. In the past this day was filled with Birthday cake, memories of laughter, and of course plenty of gifts. Back then, with every effort to make this day “extra special” for him it became extra special for me. Yet now it’s different, and […]
View post →happy  happy  happy go the animals as they parade through the African village in Animal Kingdom happy  happy  happy  am I  to be drawing them Drawing this parade was really an adventure. There was no room to stall, no room to judge. I had to be quick and trust my […]
View post →Sitting in the Bakery. It’s August 14, 2009 at the Magic Kingdom and I’m here drawing! click for a larger image I flew home from Disney last night exhausted and missing it already. Can it be that just two days ago I was sitting on Main Street listening to that familiar clang of the bells as […]
View post →It’s June 7th, 1993 at the Magic Kingdom. I was 23, and really young. A little over a year had passed since I graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in Illustration. I knew instinctively there was still so much to learn if I really wanted to call myself ‘an artist’ or find the […]
View post →an homage to chocolate  by Michele the cobblestone streets           open the senses          and it appears an edible rapture of delight peers through the window dressed in the finest of lace an innocent invitation? or touched by […]
View post →In Dom’s edition yesterday, he said  “One of the many things that makes reportage illustration so amazing is the idea that I can sit anywhere in the world, pull out my pen and ink, and draw. “ I couldn’t agree with him more.  Funny thing is the drawing below was just that – done in […]
View post →mbedigian©2009 Over the weekend I caught up with a few friends I had met in Paris a few years back in the gorgeous, (I mean GORGEOUS) musée Rodin, a museum dedicated to the life and work of  master artist, August Rodin. Their first time in America, I was excited to see them. We met in […]
View post →a.k.a. the Avenue des Champs-Élysées This weeks drawing was done on a warm, (really warm) July afternoon while standing on the most expensive strip of real estate in Europe. It’s known in France as La plus belle avenue du monde (“The most beautiful avenue in the world”), a fitting call since it’s just down the street from the stunning […]
View post →Ah, the days of summer… (how else could I follow Eddie and Dom?) Like our Central Park here in New York, Jardin des Tuileries is one of those parks where you can grab a chair (or a bench) for free and sit wherever you like, (hence why I loved drawing there so much). The Jardin des […]
View post → “It is here, it is here where the martyrs are, it is here that the Sacred Heart must reign so that it can beckon all to come”.  –   Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert          Perched high above the city, along cobbled stoned streets and winding alleyways sits the glorious Basilique du Sacré-CÅ“ur. […]
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