Many years ago I went to the racetrack and thought it might be fun to draw the horses and their riders. Margaret Hurst
View post →By way of a good friend, I was in attendance at Tuesday’s performance by jazz legend Pharoah Sanders. This was the first show of five at New York City’s Birdland. It was quite a scene to watch the 71 year old with his white hair, white beard and white shirt against the deep red “BIRDLAND” […]
View post →With Occupy Wall Street (OWS) back in the media (a protest movement that began September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, New York City) I thought it might be interesting to share a drawing I had done in front of City Hall a few months before the movement began. Drawing medium: watercolor and graphite pencil – Enjoy your day! […]
View post →Out the window from the train, a passerby caught my eye.—Dominick
View post →Greg and I went to see Verdi’s Macbeth at the Met last night. On our way there I watched a guitar player performing on the platform of the subway. Later, while observing the sculpture at the top of the stage inside the Met, I decided I’d draw it like Japanese calligraphy because my thoughts were […]
View post →I had such a great time at the ETSY Hands-on: drawing event last week. It was inspiring to meet so many aspiring artists eager to learn a new perspective on drawing. Here’s one of Kika in her final pose of the evening. - Michele, pen and ink
View post →That is until lunch, then it was the end of the cement. —Dominick
View post →A quick drawing I made at one of the fashion shows in the costume department at the Metropolitan Museum. The department was, at one point, curated by Diana Vreeland. Nice pedigree! The shows are fantastic – – Â posted by Veronica.
View post →Mista Mocko Jumbie! Carnival time is coming soon in the USVI. The Mocko Jumbies will be out in full force! Wish I were going to be there… This is a drawing from one of the Carnival parades on St. Thomas. Margaret Hurst
View post →Had a great time last night at the ETSY Hands-On: Drawing. Thank you to everyone who came out to draw with us. Here’s a drawing of you all drawing the great Kika. -Despina
View post →Here is a drawing from 2003! It’s from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of my favorite places to visit, and draw. And speaking of drawing, to everyone attending the ETSY Hands-On event tonight in Brooklyn, I look forward to meeting and drawing with you all. -Greg Betza
View post →Last week I mentioned life can be crazy hectic most days here in New York City. Yet even on the run there’s always time for a quick drawing. So while riding the E train down by Canal Street last Friday, I did a small reportage of a woman reading the New York Post. (Wonder what she was reading? […]
View post →Visit the Etsy blog to see Veronica Lawlor’s step-by-step of Exercise #12 from our One Drawing A Day book by clicking HERE. If you’d like to try the monoprint, please do upload it to our One Drawing A Day Flickr page to receive comments from the Studio 1482 illustrators and other participants!
View post →Apparently it was the last day for cement at 91st street. Behind this monster were five more ready to take its place.—Dominick
View post →Life can be crazy hectic most days. (Like today when I totally forgot it was leap year and scheduled everything a day behind, yikes!) Yet even on the run there’s always time for a quick drawing. While walking Oliver in the stroller last Tuesday, I caught an opportunity to stop briefly and draw a small reportage […]
View post →I found myself on the train with pastels, not the best of situations. None the less, I quickly took note of the setting sun. grounds for something in the future. —Dominick
View post →People having a good meal at a local diner. Eddie Peña
View post →So, I like pigeons. I don’t think they’re rats with wings! Margaret Hurst
View post →A drawing from the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden. -Greg Betza
View post → Here in New York City the winter season’s been incredibly mild. Whether good or bad in the big picture, I can bank that no one’s complaining. With spring rounding the corner there’s a certain kind of light that’s always a tip off that winter’s drifting. Inspired by it’s essence, here’s a little vision of spring as the […]
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