I spent last night at the Society of Illustrators Tuesday sketch night. The long poses were a bit long for me, so instead of spending 20 minutes on 1 drawing I would make 2 or 3. Often including a portrait. Here is one I did with colored pencil and a fountain pen. Greg Betza ©2016
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Nothing I like drawing more than a face. Here is a study of Wendy that I did in the studio one day. So happy to be drawing with Dalvero Academy at our Brooklyn studio today!
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If I were to actually pay homage to the nature of the weather this weekend, at least in my part of the world, I would be discussing the strong winds and sudden shifts of temperatures as we went from hot to cold and back and back again. The problem with being such an interconnected world […]
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Or, rather, a portrait in scribbles. I don’t remember where I saw this person but I’m sure I was in a rush to remain undetected. Pencil on paper. -Despina
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I am always happier when those I am drawing don’t know that I am drawing them. Today however I thought for one moment, that this man was an older version of someone I had worked with long ago but couldn’t remember their name. Once we made eye contact, thankfully I was done with the drawing, […]
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Saw this guy on the train last week and drew him quickly before we he realized. I caught the attention of the man next to me who smiled and looked away when I looked up.—Dominick
View post →Howdy Monday people! Let’s see if a weekend can give me enough time to have a post ready all year long. For those of you expecting another Studio member today,we all shifted around a bit. Don’t think I’ve ever had the privilege to start out the week, at least not for the foreseeable future. I’ll […]
View post →I think ‘practice’ is a good word for my first post of 2016. Keep working, keep learning. This is a practice head I created while working on portraits and testing out some new watercolors. Happy New Year! Greg Betza ©2016
View post →Not sure what this has to do with the Ides of March, most likely nothing. My six years of Latin has been poking it’s head into many aspects of my life lately. Don’t ask me more then ten words, but the literature, the myths, the poetry; I could recite Latin verse for days. OK, maybe […]
View post →I made this portrait of my son as he was reading. When I finished I looked at it and I didn’t see the six year old James, I saw what I believe he will look like in 10 years. Now I have to try not to blink or else the years will go by just […]
View post →Watercolor on paper ~Despina
View post →A few years ago I worked on a project about the collective warped ego of the world today. Every time I hear something terrible in the news, I can’t help but think of certain aspects of humanity in this way. ~Despina
View post →I saw this woman get on the train yesterday and immediately she moved around in such a way that I had to draw her. I think she knew. —Dominick
View post →I loved this guy when I drew him. He had so much style. And plenty of attitude. But good attitude. Positive attitude. Proud attitude. —Dominick
View post →Can’t help but miss everything about this town. The streets, the food, the people (like this fellow passenger on the Lexington line), there is no place like New York and no place like the Upper East Side. —Dominick
View post →A charcoal drawing from a recent session with a model. -Greg Betza ©2013
View post →Would it hold any weight at all? I certainly can’t blame her, even though she doesn’t stay still for long. —Dominick
View post →I guess it comes back around every seven days, doesn’t it.-Dominick
View post →I did this at the Botanical garden…
View post →I spent the afternoon at Barnes and Noble the other day. During my break for some coffee at the Starbucks cafe, I made some drawings of the people around me:clockwise froom the top left: the whiny kid, the satisfied customer, the shy girl waiting to order, the eccentric dude, the quiet reader, the old woman […]
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