Hot dogs and french fries…good or bad. Really what says “americana” any better? Drawing done in pen and ink on Main Street USA,WDW by Michele
View post →I did a little experimenting when I was illustrating a book cover. I bought a fern and used a stem of it to create a watercolor version of it. Â I brushed the one side of the leaf with red watercolor and pressed it on the watercolor paper, twice. The fuller version was the first “lay […]
View post →Wax resist is pretty fun to do. I melted some candle wax and used a fine brush to paint the lines of my drawing. After the paint dried it felt good to scrape the wax away to reveal the image. That’s my little gingerbread boy playing in the snow. ~Despina
View post →Study of a lady in watercolor pencils. Quick drawing observing an older woman in state of suspicion.
View post →This is a series of watercolor and gold pen pattern designs that I created. I had been looking at a lot of Japanese fabrics and prints and they inspired me to paint, draw and design these “patterns of nature.” They were just an inspirational experiment in abstraction, pattern and design and I ended up really […]
View post →A few favorite “graphic” portraits found in my sketchbook this past week. Reminds me how incredible fun drawing can be and how lucky I am! – Michele mixed mediums
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Watercolor by: Eddie PenaView post →
I was looking through some of my drawing /art notebooks and found some of my Patterned Fantasy Landscapes. I started out thinking about a vineyard and continued to fantasize about other objects that might appear in this vineyard patterned landscape. Different types of bodies, sea creatures, land animals and checkered landscapes came to mind. Margaret […]
View post →Mariachi is the best known form of  folk music from Mexico. This was a drawing I had done while watching one the most incredible Mariachi bands ever down on the lower east side in NYC a few years back….Let’s continue to keep all those living in areas of our city affected by the hurricane in […]
View post →Lately it’s not the remembering that it is Tuesday, it is the constant interference by the smalls things in life.—Dominick
View post →A rose is a beautiful thing to look at whenever you can!  This particular rose was drawn and water colored at the Bronx Botanical Gardens in New York. It was great  because so many beautiful roses and other flowers were in bloom that day that it was hard to pick out a particular flower.  I […]
View post →My contribution to the Studio 1482 Hurricane Sandy fundraiser, is titled: Bethesda Fountain Angel, NYC. I chose this image of the Angel as she is a symbol of healing, blessing the waters of the Bethesda Fountain in New York’s Central Park. In response to Hurricane Sandy’s devastating effects on the New York and New Jersey […]
View post →Our Fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey has begun. For my contribution, I’ve selected a drawing a made at the South Street Seaport in NYC. On the day I was drawing the famous Peking there were countless people working on it. I chose this image because of how […]
View post →Something about the dark brown trunks against the palettes of yellows and oranges makes me always stop.—Dominick
View post →New York is a great city. I was afraid of it when I saw it for the first time many, many years ago: it was soooo tall! I grew to love it over the years I’ve been living here. I have always maintained that New York City is it’s own country. What don’t we have? […]
View post →Terrible storm we had a few days ago. Hurricane Sandy…wow. Not much to say except that I wish all affected a speedy recovery. Here is a tree across the street from my home. It ripped up the lawn in this perfect triangle. Unbelievable. ©2012 Greg Betza
View post →Colored pencil and ink. Eddie Pena
View post →A drawing made this summer at the High Line Park New York. -Veronica Lawlor
View post →One of the larger drawings I made for Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer’s Night Dream. I can’t seem to let go of summer! Somehow I think summer will let go of me!!! Any way, once again, “Cheers, william Shakespeare! Nothing new under the sun!” Margaret Hurst
View post →Here is a quick drawing I made during a visit to the African rainforest (at the Museum of Natural History). -Despina
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