Strange name, and every song is about a love lost or a scorned lover or a broken heart or a girl named Carolyn. Or something along those lines. -DespinaÂ
View post →Here is a drawing I made during dinner before the live jazz show at Birdland last week. Great characters in there. Greg Betza ©2012
View post →Pulled out a reportage I had done in the Rotunda at the American Adventure Pavilion in Epcot. As I recall I think all these people were running from the heat, just like me :0 …. regardless, good times for sure! Medium: Pen and Ink, by Michele
View post →Drawing of a distant family member. He’s prettier in the drawing. Eddie Peña
View post →Many years ago I went to the racetrack and thought it might be fun to draw the horses and their riders. Margaret Hurst
View post →By way of a good friend, I was in attendance at Tuesday’s performance by jazz legend Pharoah Sanders. This was the first show of five at New York City’s Birdland. It was quite a scene to watch the 71 year old with his white hair, white beard and white shirt against the deep red “BIRDLAND” […]
View post →With Occupy Wall Street (OWS) back in the media (a protest movement that began September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, New York City) I thought it might be interesting to share a drawing I had done in front of City Hall a few months before the movement began. Drawing medium: watercolor and graphite pencil – Enjoy your day! […]
View post →That must have hurt. A statue in France by: Eddie Peña Ink
View post →This post works today for so many reasons – first, it’s one day after St. Patrick’s Day, and sea shanties are a big part of the Irish-American tradition. Also, we’re getting ready for our exhibit at the Mystic Seaport at the end of April – very exciting! posted by Veronica Lawlor
View post →Mista Mocko Jumbie strikes again! Margaret Hurst
View post →A line drawing of a bouquet of fake flowers that my 3-yr old put together for me the other day. Greg Betza ©2012
View post →I had such a great time at the ETSY Hands-on: drawing event last week. It was inspiring to meet so many aspiring artists eager to learn a new perspective on drawing. Here’s one of Kika in her final pose of the evening. - Michele, pen and ink
View post →I just saw her sitting there, without a worry in the world. I was compelled to draw her. Eddie Peña
View post →Mista Mocko Jumbie! Carnival time is coming soon in the USVI. The Mocko Jumbies will be out in full force! Wish I were going to be there… This is a drawing from one of the Carnival parades on St. Thomas. Margaret Hurst
View post →Had a great time last night at the ETSY Hands-On: Drawing. Thank you to everyone who came out to draw with us. Here’s a drawing of you all drawing the great Kika. -Despina
View post →Here is a drawing from 2003! It’s from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of my favorite places to visit, and draw. And speaking of drawing, to everyone attending the ETSY Hands-On event tonight in Brooklyn, I look forward to meeting and drawing with you all. -Greg Betza
View post →Last week I mentioned life can be crazy hectic most days here in New York City. Yet even on the run there’s always time for a quick drawing. So while riding the E train down by Canal Street last Friday, I did a small reportage of a woman reading the New York Post. (Wonder what she was reading? […]
View post →Visit the Etsy blog to see Veronica Lawlor’s step-by-step of Exercise #12 from our One Drawing A Day book by clicking HERE. If you’d like to try the monoprint, please do upload it to our One Drawing A Day Flickr page to receive comments from the Studio 1482 illustrators and other participants!
View post →A drawing/painting at the China Pavilion at Epcot. A little color, a little abstraction, a lot of fun… Margaret Hurst
View post →I zoomed in on this man’s face for this drawing. Pen and pencil -Despina
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