Over the years I have done a lot of projects on America ad its mythology, and it’s one I return to again and again, like any good immigrant. I actually did this drawing in the Egyptian section of the Met (don’t ask)
View post →I went uptown last Wednesday evening to watch the blowing up of the balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. I love the surrealism of these giant cartoon characters, tied down like Gulliver while we Lilliputian citizens walk and gawk at the spectacle. Some of the characters are old friends, like Ronald McDonald; some are […]
View post →“On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree.” Well, Thanksgiving and Black Friday are over and all I see now are Christmas Trees on almost every corner in the city. Â Soon it will be Christmas 2009 and I am once again, as I am every […]
View post →So for those of you thinking of heading out to…well, anywhere this weekend…here is what you’ll be in for. This is a drawing I made at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. drawing by Greg Betza
View post →I would’ve saved her the last piece. Thanksgiving is the one day of the year I wish lasted a little longer, (no joke). So when I imagine stretching the holiday I can’t think of anything better than finding turkey and maybe some cranberry sauce in the rare sighting of leftovers following the feast    […]
View post →Thank you Lord, For all of my family, all of my friends, for this country we live in, all that you provide us with and for the time given to us on this Earth. Amen. Eddie Peña
View post →This is one of about two thousand drawings I’ve done of my beloved fellow-New Yorkers. I love drawing people, especially extreme ones, and nowhere are folks more who they are than in the big apple! This couple was shopping at Rockefeller Center, if I recall correctly.
View post →This is a drawing I made in Veronica’s illustration class at Pratt. Â They were having a great time and it was fun drawing the students drawing!
View post →Here is a drawing I dug out of my archives. I did it when I used to live in Hoboken, NJ. (a great city by the way). I also wanted to post this to announce my photostream on Flickr. by Greg Betza
View post →A few months back I wrote and posted a drawing I did while standing on what’s been called the most expensive strip of real estate in Europe, La plus belle avenue du monde (â€The most beautiful avenue in the worldâ€) also known as the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. It got me thinking about […]
View post →Sleep is long lost, and tomorrow is beginning shortly. What little will the world know of what happened at in the early AM.
View post →I love my NYC. I feel so comfortable walking down my streets. I have not a worry in the world, now of course I have all four eyes open it is still NYC after all. Eddie Peña
View post →Those who know me know my alter-ego is Wonder Woman. I admire her grace (just erase the image of a running Linda Carter for the moment, and instead picture her righteous blue eyes and patriotic panties). As a little girl I wore Omi’s red boots and protected our garden from evildoers with my clothesline lasso. […]
View post →Following up with my recent Halloween parade post (parade) I thought I’d put up this drawing I made of the spectators. You can see, some of the people are watching the parade, some are watching the watchers, and some are having a cocktail party on the city bench. It’s really a relaxed, easy scene – […]
View post →Last Saturday I had the privilege to attend the commissioning ceremony of the USS NEW YORK (LPD 21). Traditionally the commissioning of a naval vessel is a time of celebration, the welcoming of a new ship and its crew to the fleet. It’s a symbol of our national pride and steadfast resolve. Yet on that day, […]
View post →The only way to get better at something is to study. Eddie Peña
View post →Last weekend I stumbled across the Met Museum’s scrumptuous dinner-table display of courtly Austrian porcelains set with a colorful arrangement of sugarpaste flowers, gilded sugar-mold artichokes, bowls teetering with candy walnuts and apricots and blossoms and lacy sugar-“temples”. I felt like a kid staring at all those goodies, never wishing to touch any of that […]
View post →I went downtown to draw the Yankees Victory parade up Broadway – the “canyon of heroes” on Friday morning. It was great fun to see the players go by on the floats: Matsui was reserved and cool, Mariano Rivera was suave, Damon played the crowd and Jeter was, of course, the heart-throb. But the best […]
View post →“Our hope are our children. Giving our children better choices will give them a better chance to be the people they ought to be tomorrow.” “The Game of Life” by Eddie Peña
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