KIKA! The one and only. Drawn with ink, charcoal, and watercolor on Canson Mixed Media paper. At the Dalvero Academy advanced drawing/painting workshop. A heavenly week ladies – thanks to all of you! Posted by Veronica
View post →A delightful day of drawing at the Dalvero Studio in Brooklyn with the Advanced Drawing Class. It’s been a wonderful week of non stop drawing and painting…wish every day were like this! Can I have some more please??? Margaret Hurst
View post →There really are few things more relaxing than laying in the grass at Central Park. –Despina
View post →I know most of us would probably say that our days do not go as planned. Or maybe it is just me. If I accomplish a fraction of what I set out to on most days, I would usually be pretty happy. Today in the midst of assignments and deadlines, the projects took a back […]
View post →Carousel decorative detail. Watercolor, Brooklyn ny. Eddie Peña
View post →Manhattan is BOOMING with new construction lately, and no place in the city is seeing this more than Chelsea. Since the Highline stopped being an industrial eyesore of the West side and became a chic park, seems like all the ritzy people want to live there. So many new glass palaces going up everywhere – […]
View post →Two drawings of a model. Drawing the model is the best experience of your life. you connect on so many levels, as an artist and a human being. i will always want and love to draw the model from live. It is the most valuable endeavor I have done and will always do! Margaret Hurst
View post →I will always love my Bronx, but I have to admit that Brooklyn is beginning to grow on me. The Brooklyn Bridge. Eddie Peña
View post →A lot of my friends find it a bit strange that I keep saying that moving from Manhattan to Jackson Heights is like moving to the country. Remember that Seinfeld episode when Kramer described Queens that way? There is definitely something to it, because here it is the weekend, and I am making a drawing […]
View post →Storyboards of people.  I like practicing my design of people in sequential panels. It changes the way you think about your next choice and why you do it. Ink on paper. Eddie Peña
View post →Recently my friend Lapin, the French illustrator and Urban Sketcher, was in town with his wife “Lapinette” and their beautiful little daughter Louise. We all had the pleasure of meeting with Danny Gregory, author of many books on drawing, and his girlfriend JJ. One of Danny’s recent books is An Illustrated Journey, featuring many wonderful […]
View post →I used my left hand to make the drawing of this model. The reason this is significant is because, you guessed it, I’m right handed. When I make my students draw with their “left” hands in class I call it their “ungiven” hand. Once in awhile a student is left handed and so I don’t […]
View post →Another quick thought for when I get back to my project. Picked up some great information at the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian in D.C. and I literally, just 45 seconds ago, learned that it is a sister museum to the one in New York. The things you over look. We […]
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House by the Water.Ink and colored pencil by Eddie Peña.View post →
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
View post →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
View post →A drawing made in Jackson Heights, NYC, my new home base! Click HERE to read about it on my blog. Posted by Veronica Lawlor
View post →A model drawing made with the  “Magic” pencil!  Multi colors – you never know what’s going to come out! Margaret Hurst
View post →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
View post →A small piece made at the Macy’s Flower Show in New York City a few years ago. ©2013 Greg Betza
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