Whew! Just got back from a month of traveling and finally unpacked my suitcase. Spent some time in Barcelona, then traveled to Paris with the Dalvero Academy and finally wound up my travels by going to Portland as a presenter at the Urban Sketchers Symposium! This drawing was made at the Farmer’s Market in Portland, […]
View post →A somewhat odd situation: Â an unhappy, angry woman encountering a self-satisfied, smug individual at the Italian Pavilion in Epcot. Â There were no words exchanged, just an overwhelming, radiating air of hostility and entitlement growing and undulating between the two. By the end of it I wasn’t sure who was the hostile one and who was […]
View post →I recently went to draw at the Plaza Hotel in NYC. Very beautiful area with rich history, beautiful structures and some of the best people watching. I saw a ridiculously long line for the “Sex and the City” Tour Bus. Very funny. Maybe I’ll post the drawing of that another day. This time, I’ll share […]
View post →From the Bronx zoo. – Greg Betza
View post →..I once read that Pythagoras is credited with having discovered the physical relationship between mass and sound, (otherwise known as music), and that this relationship (expressible as ratios) is essentially what led to Galileo’s revolutionary discoveries in physics. One might say this same physical relationship occurs in a drawing – more of this and less of […]
View post →They are mine now, but I know where they came from and I know what he sacrificed to get them to me. Here is to the week and all the plans we can muster for August.
View post →Nothing like a summer day, sitting in the middle of old main street. Eddie Peña
View post →Those who know me and my work will recognize the theme of the garden as a metaphor for paradise (home). I remember eating strawberries, gooseberries, currants, plums, peaches, apples and hazelnuts directly from the bush as a kid playing at our garden at #28. This page is part of an ongoing project on the history of […]
View post →I made this thumbnail of an 18th century French fashionista in the European furniture galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I love those galleries, especially the gigantic crystal chandeliers. I think I need one of those chandeliers in my studio to inspire me…posted by Veronica.
View post →No one, absolutely NO ONE, has seen this drawing, or this series of drawings before today. Â My very talented friend and associate, Veronica Lawlor, is out in Portland, Oregon, today teaching at an Urban Sketchers drawathon. Â She had a conversation with Frank, a fellow urban sketcher who loves drawing, and so I wanted to send […]
View post →Whenever I go to a Barnes and Noble for a while, I like to break from browsing the books and sit at the cafe. I have something to drink and do some people watching/drawing. These two were quite involved in the books they were reading, and didn’t notice me drawing their portraits at all. Â […]
View post →The Tour De France concluded on Sunday in Paris, and as I watched the coverage and the amazing shots of the city, I fell in love with Paris…again. A few of my good friends were there drawing the race and I couldn’t help but think of the time I spent drawing in Paris in 2006. […]
View post →Putting it mildly, (if you weren’t here) Saturday night in New York City was unbearably hot and steamy. It was the perfect night for a movie after a long week  at work (hint,hint: air-conditioning!). We went to see Inception (a very popular movie that sold-out soon after we got there) which left the “late comers” having […]
View post →The mornings are much different.
View post →Here is another drawing I made on that stroll through Washington Heights. I have a whole stack of drawings toward a Hokusai-style series of “1000 views of the GWB”, since that landmark dominates my neighborhood with its industrial elegance.
View post →The maenads were the female followers of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine. From my Carnival series. – posted by Veronica.
View post →Tea Cups at Disney. Â This is a ride you don’t want to take on a full stomach! Â I thought I could handle it, but I was zig zaging around the park after that fateful ride. Â I don’t know what makes me think I can keep getting on these rides that turn me upside down and […]
View post →There really are few things more relaxing than laying in the grass at Central Park. -Despina
View post →I spent an hour or so yesterday drawing some boats at a dock in Hoboken, NJ. Here is one that I particularly liked. Try to enjoy your Monday! drawing by Greg Betza
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