“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.†-Alfred North Whitehead – Eddie Peña
View post →As the days of freezing rain, slush, sleet and snow arrive in New York City, I like to console myself up with memories of warmer climes. This is my interpretation of a mango tree – the ones that hung over the back porch of Marg‘s brother Billy. Man, just reach up and grab a mango […]
View post →Four Angel Drawings, Three Happy Dancing Doves, Two Japanese Dancers and a Partridge in a Pear Tree. “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Â -Hebrews 13:2 “All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.” Â -Fedor Dostoevsky “Every […]
View post →“Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, love divine; Love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign.†–Christina G. Rossetti A great quote for Christmas, and a perfect one for the annual Christmas installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where I drew this angel. It is so beautiful. A Christmas […]
View post →the holidays. Yes, it’s almost that time. Here is a drawing I made last weekend at the Metropolitan Museum. This is small detail from the base of their Christmas tree. Have a wonderful holiday everyone!!! drawing by Greg Betza
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View post →Wishing you all peace and joy in this holiday season and into the New Year. – Veronica
View post →Three Happy Dancing Doves, Two Japanese Dancers and a Partridge in a Pear Tree. Â Â Margaret
View post →My Holiday card. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday season. -Despina
View post →drawing by Greg Betza Believe it or not, it’s perfectly legal and not frowned upon to draw in casinos. I couldn’t believe it, I thought I’d be denied for some “security” reason, but nope. The casino workers were more than accommodating, and off I went. If you enjoy interesting architecture and even more interesting people, […]
View post →“For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;” Psalm 91:11
View post →Audrey, drawing at Dalvero. Check out that eye – very intense! Â – Veronica
View post →Two Japanese dancers and a Partridge in a Pear Tree! Â Can’t wait for day 3!
View post →This time of year, and all year. Prudence, Fortitude, Temperance, Faith, Charity, Hope, Justice -Despina
View post →“On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree.” Well, Thanksgiving and Black Friday are over and all I see now are Christmas Trees on almost every corner in the city. Â Soon it will be Christmas 2009 and I am once again, as I am every […]
View post →I almost made it to Christmas. Here is the last of the Santorini drawings that I am posting. It is one I made while waiting for the ferry to leave the island. I thought it very fitting. Click here to view all my drawings from Santorini. I also went to Crete, click here to see […]
View post →So for those of you thinking of heading out to…well, anywhere this weekend…here is what you’ll be in for. This is a drawing I made at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. drawing by Greg Betza
View post →Thank you Lord, For all of my family, all of my friends, for this country we live in, all that you provide us with and for the time given to us on this Earth. Amen. Eddie Peña
View post →This is one of about two thousand drawings I’ve done of my beloved fellow-New Yorkers. I love drawing people, especially extreme ones, and nowhere are folks more who they are than in the big apple! This couple was shopping at Rockefeller Center, if I recall correctly.
View post →Just before Thanksgiving, and I want to give some thanks. Thanks to beautiful friends and family. Thanks to the members of Studio 1482 that I’m lucky to be a part of. Thanks to the terrific clients that I’ve had the privilege of working with. Thanks to all of the wonderful students that I’ve taught and […]
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