Can’t seem to get away from Prometheus! This is a drawing of a view of him from the top. I was at Rockefeller Center earlier this evening but there was no way I could even get a look at him with all the crowds! Oh well, I shall return! Margaret Hurst
View post →Just found this as I went through some old drawing pads. This is a gouache portrait of an imaginary girl that I created a few years ago at Ellis Island. -Greg Betza
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View post →… in Rockefeller Center. visit my blog for more from the day , Michele
View post →The Empire State Building was blue on Saturday night – I had to draw it. For a good many years of my adult life, I’ve lived within view of the Empire State Building. She has become a kind of presence for me, a guardian spirit. When I saw her shining blue light it made me […]
View post →–Despina Georgiadis
View post →Since the band Dinosaur Jr released their amazing album “You’re Living All Over Me“. Two weeks ago they played a concert at Terminal 5 in New York City to celebrate. It was an amazing show with special guests including Frank Black, Kim Gordon and Johnny Marr. I will post more drawings from the night on […]
View post →I didn’t get much drawing done, but none the less it was great to see old friends and catch up at the Dalvero open house this past weekend. —Dominick
View post →Here is another drawing from the Workbook Creative Carnival a few weeks ago at the Art Director’s Club. Fun evening! Posted by Veronica
View post →I did a little experimenting when I was illustrating a book cover. I bought a fern and used a stem of it to create a watercolor version of it. Â I brushed the one side of the leaf with red watercolor and pressed it on the watercolor paper, twice. The fuller version was the first “lay […]
View post →Ever since he played the Master of Ceremonies in “Cabaret” in 1998 I’ve been a huge fan of the incredibly talented Scottish actor Alan Cumming. His range is enormous and to say “entertaining” is an understatement. Two days ago on CBS Sunday Morning they did this awesome feature on him, his thoughts and selective choices during […]
View post →You wouldn’t think it was December four by the weather. Warm and grey all the way. —Dominick
View post →This is a series of watercolor and gold pen pattern designs that I created. I had been looking at a lot of Japanese fabrics and prints and they inspired me to paint, draw and design these “patterns of nature.” They were just an inspirational experiment in abstraction, pattern and design and I ended up really […]
View post →A few favorite “graphic” portraits found in my sketchbook this past week. Reminds me how incredible fun drawing can be and how lucky I am! – Michele mixed mediums
View post →Last week, Studio 1482 illustrators Margaret Hurst, Greg Betza, and I were invited to draw at the Workbook Creative Carnival at the Art Directors Club in New York. It was a great time – there were burlesque and carnival performers posing for us as we drew, and the drawings were auctioned off to benefit the […]
View post →I was looking through some of my drawing /art notebooks and found some of my Patterned Fantasy Landscapes. I started out thinking about a vineyard and continued to fantasize about other objects that might appear in this vineyard patterned landscape. Different types of bodies, sea creatures, land animals and checkered landscapes came to mind. Margaret […]
View post →On behalf of all of us at One Drawing A Day and Studio 1482, I’d like to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving. Greg Betza ©2012
View post →Mariachi is the best known form of  folk music from Mexico. This was a drawing I had done while watching one the most incredible Mariachi bands ever down on the lower east side in NYC a few years back….Let’s continue to keep all those living in areas of our city affected by the hurricane in […]
View post →A rose is a beautiful thing to look at whenever you can!  This particular rose was drawn and water colored at the Bronx Botanical Gardens in New York. It was great  because so many beautiful roses and other flowers were in bloom that day that it was hard to pick out a particular flower.  I […]
View post →My contribution to the Studio 1482 Hurricane Sandy fundraiser, is titled: Bethesda Fountain Angel, NYC. I chose this image of the Angel as she is a symbol of healing, blessing the waters of the Bethesda Fountain in New York’s Central Park. In response to Hurricane Sandy’s devastating effects on the New York and New Jersey […]
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