OMG! it was nearly 6:10 this morning when my children came running into the room with chocolate on the brain begging to see if the Easter bunny “just happened to drop anything off for them” (since they’ve been so ridiculously well behaved this past week concerned about a shortage in sweets if they did anything but sneeze, lol). […]
View post →You would think a new schedule would keep me on my toes. While it is still Saturday, this is far from a Saturday post. Intentions, intentions, intentions…always good intentions. Saint Bernard, Virgil, and Milton would have something to say about it right now. Either way, spring was certainly on my mind today and though still cold […]
View post →On March 27th, before all the chaos developed with Ebola in this country and the rise of ISIS, in his first official visit President Obama met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. As it is customary politically and in tradition to bring the Pope gifts, the President gave the Pope a seed box and mentioned he would like […]
View post →is a church on the island of Crete, in Greece. I visited there and made this painting in 2008. A family member from that village is visiting this week and he reminded me of this piece. Greg Betza ©2013
View post →I think that was the last time I just forgot about it all, and yet it was all right there. The hardest part is losing yourself when you are surrounded by so much.—Dominick
View post →Inspired by the french impressionists, another drawing on location at St.Patrick Cathedral done on the same day as last week’s…only this time, in full color. May this week be just as peaceful and productive, only more colorful .– Michele
View post →Veronica’s drawing of Belvedere Castle “beautiful view” in Central Park this past Sunday reminded me of a drawing I did a year or two back of St.Patrick’s Cathedral in all it’s “Gothic ecclesiastical way” I thought would be fun to share with you this week. May yours be peaceful and productive .– Michele
View post →Sacre Coeur, Paris France. Eddie Peña
View post →Here is a drawing I made in 2003 when I was living in Hoboken, NJ. At the time I was just out playing around with some pastels, but once I had the chance to read more about the church, it was really fascinating what I found… Founded in 1851 under the guidance of the Reverend […]
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 →The Metropolitan Museum of Art … my church, my schoolyard, my home away from home. – Michele
View post →After a lovely morning of drawing, Greg and I stopped for some lunch. This was the view from our table. -Despina
View post →So, obviously, fellow One-Drawing-a-Dayer Greg and I went on the same trip. He posted a drawing from Santorini yesterday, and I’ll be island hopping to Crete today. Here is a drawing I made of the church in my mother’s home town of Kalives. These type of churches are such a lovely mix of cultures. Crete […]
View post →A place where respect and quiet is demanded. St. Patrick’s Cathedral is colossal, and when you walk in it only gets bigger. It’s a great place to draw, where you can stay cool and no one bothers you. Eddie Peña
View post → “It is here, it is here where the martyrs are, it is here that the Sacred Heart must reign so that it can beckon all to come”.  –   Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert          Perched high above the city, along cobbled stoned streets and winding alleyways sits the glorious Basilique du Sacré-CÅ“ur. […]
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