I love the steamboat at Walt Disney World in Orlando. I have learned so much by drawing that boat over the years. The “wedding cake” my teacher used to call it. One class he made me sit on it every day for a week and draw. Wow. And now I send my students there to […]
View post →I was at my friends’ house this weekend and had the pleasure of seeing a mama and her baby in action. It reminded me of this drawing I had done awhile ago… Mama teaching baby elephant how to pick a branch from a tree! Margaret Hurst
View post →I’ve got a few of the model with that red dress on. -Despina
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With December in full swing this brisk sunny Sunday, Ronnie’s post this week inspired thoughts of warm, tempting days gone by for me too. Above is a reportage study for a larger painting project I started in Animal Kingdom. Happy Sunday! – Michele
View post →Sometimes  a blanket is a hat.—Dominick
View post →This summer The New York Botanical Garden has hosted a series of exhibitions called the “Edible Gardens”. I was fortunate enough to find myself in the middle of this delicious cooking demonstration. I’m going back when Emeril Lagasse shows up next month! Enjoy. Eddie Peña
View post →There is something alluringly inpenetrable about seafaring towns. Perhaps it is that air of magic that comes with being so intimately entwined with the rhythms of nature, with death, the weather, and God, a breathing in and out of time, where days become years, and generations contract into a single moment. I delight in following […]
View post →We’ve been having some unseasonably warm weather here in New York City, but I know it’s not going to last. As wintery winds start blowing, my mind drifts back to the Turks and Caicos islands where I spent some lovely time recently. Sitting on the porch overlooking the ocean, I started to play with color […]
View post →I’m not sure what happened here, but I got a little carried away and put this one flower watercolor drawing into a few filters… Margaret Hurst
View post →Another drawing from the model. That red dress made the white walls in the background vibrate with cool blue energy. -Despina
View post →A pair of trees shedding the last of their leaves awaiting the coming winter. ©2011 Greg Betza
View post →Above is a small lino-cut I had done at the South Street Seaport titled Point of Entry…into the melting pot. Â Thought it was kind of appropriate given the occasion this holiday weekend, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! May the best of life’s offering in this great land we call home fill yours with peace and abundance. […]
View post →Some days bring reflection like no others. I am thankful to have lived in so many worlds on this planet thus far, I only hope I have a little more time to venture out and find some more. —Dominick
View post →Best day of the year! Nothing like spending time with friends and family. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. ~Eddie Peña “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men …” 1 Timothy 2:1
View post →Just now finally getting to go through the many drawings I made in Spain in the summer of 2010. This was a group of young boys playing futbol (soccer) one day near the Miro museum. They were without doubt the most beautiful little boys I’ve ever seen. Long eyelashes, so sensitive, really sweet. Neil and […]
View post →I thought it would be nice to put one of the black and white illustrations drawn for Henri’s Reserve. Â I tasted some of their champagnes and they were absolutely sublime! Margaret Hurst
View post →At another Open House at the Dalvero Academy. Had much fun drawing the glasses, dress, hair and accessories that defined the style of the fifties. -Despina
View post →Yesterday’s unseasonably cold weather reminded me of this drawing I made last year. It was an unseasonably warm day then, but I was standing on a patch of ice that had yet to melt and by the time I had made this drawing outside of the American Museum of Natural History, I was trembling. Suffering […]
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