I made this pencil, crayon and gouache drawing a few years ago at the Meadowlands Fair here in New Jersey. What a treat to have so much color and motion in one place with such unusual machines all around. A real reportage delight! Greg Betza ©2013
View post →A Midsummer’s Night Dream. My favorite Shakespeare play. I was asked by an editor what my favorite piece of literature/story would be to illustrate…not difficult to answer! Margaret Hurst
View post →Crayon drawing from a day spent in the park. Greg Betza©2013
View post →A drawing/watercolor I made for a book I wanted to illustrate, Anansi Stories. The Anansi myth is from Africa. Basically Anansi is a trouble maker. He is mainly represented as a spider, but I thought it might be fun to make him human. In this picture/drawing Anansi is collecting up all the common sense in […]
View post →This drawing reminded me of the past 24 hours near my home. It has been windy and kind of grey. Pencil on paper. Greg Betza ©20113
View post →Construction workers doing their thing. These drawings were made a while back in New York city on the Upper East Side. It was great drawing at a construction site. There was so much going on and so much body language to go along with it! Fun! Margaret Hurst
View post →Here’s another salvaged page of drawings. -despina
View post →An older drawing I made on “track 24” at New York’s grand central terminal. TGIF. Greg Betza ©2013
View post →A drawing of a park in New York City’s Chinatown, done on the i-Pad with the brushes app. I really enjoy playing around with that thing. posted by Veronica
View post →I won’t say I forgot, I just forgot what day it was. All of my alerts went off yesterday, yet this morning I had yet to post a new drawing. I quickly grabbed this one from Grand Central. I caught these two having pizza while waiting for a train.I was waiting for a train, they […]
View post →Okay, a little bit late, but still, as promised, a larger Ridge around a smaller Ridge… Margaret Hurst
View post →I couldn’t see this woman’s partner hidden behind another subway rider, but it was obvious they wanted to be as far from the man sitting next to them as possible. In fact they wanted to have the train to themselves it seemed.—Dominick
View post →I couldn’t help it! Had to put up another Ridge!!! This is a small one painted in the corner of a large piece of paper, so I might be forced to post the larger part of the drawing next week!!! Anyway, a small Ridge! Margaret Hurst
View post →Yes, another model drawing, but not a another duck! Ridge is the model for this particular drawing. He is a great model; wonderful to draw. He’s over six feet tall, works out and has great muscle tone and great proportions, all making him a wonderful model to create some great picture making from! Our last […]
View post →The truth is I don’t reach for watercolor when I work most often. I use it all the time, but not really in a “pure” sense of the medium. It is usually mixed heavily with caran d’ache crayons (water soluble of course) or anything else I have in my bag at the time. So when […]
View post →Recently I had the wonderful opportunity to draw the Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s west side, from a bird’s eye view. The yards are used right now as a rail yard to house MTA trains – – it will soon become a huge development, with luxury apartments, shopping, theater, etc., etc. You can read about it […]
View post →A funky little hat with flowers on it! Kika, our model, placed the colorful flowers on top of this hat. I can’t remember if it is a cat or a cow hat. Anyway, it was terrific to draw the hat and design the black watercolor marks and get into the wild colors of the added […]
View post →I made this drawing during the advanced drawing workshop at the Dalvero Academy. The model that day was sporting a real summer look. -Despina
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These two were completely annoyed with one other as the train bounced them together at every possible moment.—Dominick
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