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 →Study of a lady in watercolor pencils. Quick drawing observing an older woman in state of suspicion.
View post →A sweet little pink building at Mystic Seaport. I made this watercolor about 24 hours before Hurricane Sandy hit. Hope the little building is OK. posted by Veronica
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 →James was out trying his best to make a snowman. ~Despina
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 →Barely caught them in the fields.—Dominick
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 →Lately it’s not the remembering that it is Tuesday, it is the constant interference by the smalls things in life.—Dominick
View post →The weekend before Hurricane Sandy hit New York (about 6 months ago, it seems) Margaret and I took a group of Dalvero Academy artists up to Mystic Seaport for a weekend reportage workshop. What beautiful colors! It was so nice to steal an hour to sit with Marg and just paint the beauty we saw. […]
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 →Watercolor and charcoal on paper. ~Despina2012©despinageorgiadis
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 […]
View post →We, the illustrators of Studio 1482 felt an incredible need to do something to actively support our great city and it’s neighboring communities devastated by Hurricane Sandy’s violent wrath. So in response we’ve each created a print of one of our favorite New York City images to raise money for the displaced victims of the […]
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