A funky little hat with flowers on it! Kika, our model, placed the colorful flowers on top of this hat. I can’t remember if it is a cat or a cow hat. Anyway, it was terrific to draw the hat and design the black watercolor marks and get into the wild colors of the added […]
View post →I made this drawing during the advanced drawing workshop at the Dalvero Academy. The model that day was sporting a real summer look. -Despina
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Quick model ink drawing by Eddie Peña.
View post →A delightful day of drawing at the Dalvero Studio in Brooklyn with the Advanced Drawing Class. It’s been a wonderful week of non stop drawing and painting…wish every day were like this! Can I have some more please??? Margaret Hurst
View post →There really are few things more relaxing than laying in the grass at Central Park. –Despina
View post →with an amazing hat! © Greg Betza 2013
View post →Two drawings of a model. Drawing the model is the best experience of your life. you connect on so many levels, as an artist and a human being. i will always want and love to draw the model from live. It is the most valuable endeavor I have done and will always do! Margaret Hurst
View post →with just a few lines -Despina
View post →Just some fun playing around with pastels…and pencil. ©2013 Greg Betza
View post →I will always love my Bronx, but I have to admit that Brooklyn is beginning to grow on me. The Brooklyn Bridge. Eddie Peña
View post →A few years back I flew out to Arizona and drove to Joshua Tree National Park. It was unlike anything I had ever seen before. The shapes, the marks, the textures, the color, all of it was magical. Joshua trees look like people to me with raised hands reaching toward the sky. I would love […]
View post →I’ve spent 3 nights this week shooting pictures and drawing at the reunion tour of The Monochrome Set. A band formed in the 1970s that hasn’t toured the US in 30 years. A good friend of mine put the tour together, so I’ve had amazing access to the band which has been amazing. This is […]
View post →I used my left hand to make the drawing of this model. The reason this is significant is because, you guessed it, I’m right handed. When I make my students draw with their “left” hands in class I call it their “ungiven” hand. Once in awhile a student is left handed and so I don’t […]
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House by the Water.Ink and colored pencil by Eddie Peña.View post →
I love elephants. I think they’re cool. I made this drawing/picture a while ago. I was inspired by being at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. After I took the Kilimanjaro Safari ride in Harambe Village and saw the elephants hanging out by the baobab tree I made a few inspired drawings. Just thinking about the relationship of […]
View post →Another duck I saw during my trip to Disney’s Animal Kingdom last week. ducks come in so many color combinations. Despina
View post →A watercolor/gouache/pencil drawing made at the New York Botanical Garden. One of my favorite places to visit in the spring. Greg Betza ©2013
View post →I was looking through some of my older notebooks and I came across this drawing I made of two kinda whacky ladies at Epcot  in the Chinese Pavilion. God I love how amazing and different people can be. I really love to “people watch!” Definitely one of my favorite things to do in life! Margaret […]
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