Sometimes something positive comes from something negative. Along with everyone else, artists are also unable to get together…and yes, artists do get together quite often for various reasons, and one of them is to draw from the figure. Live figure drawing had been all but erased from the planet until some very industrious people decided […]
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Playing around within ink on the streets of Chicago. Greg Betza ©2018
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Here is a cropped detail from an illustration I’m working on today. Can’t say any more about it right now, but thought I’d share this bit since it is a drawing I made today. Greg Betza ©2018
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Homemade walnut ink on paper ~ Despina
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A recent life drawing study made with ink, a brush and a dip pen. Greg Betza ©2017
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I made this drawing in 2012 during the construction of the Freedom Tower in lower Manhattan. I thought this would be an appropriate week to post this. Greg Betza ©2016
View post →So my parents have retired and are moving. I’m helping to clear out the storage which consists of a lot of my old portfolio cases filled with journals and artwork from high school and college. It’s been part embarrassing and part inspiring. And a wholly emotional experience. For those of you out there with children: urge […]
View post →I made this drawing last week at the Society of Illustrators. The model was a circus-style acrobat and an all around amazing athlete. Great to draw. Here are more drawings from this series. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In […]
View post →I finally made it to a sketch night at the Society of Illustrators. Here is a drawing I made of the model who was acting out the role of Katniss Everdeen of the Hunger Games. See more of this series here on my blog.
View post →Posted with thoughts of warmer weather… Greg Betza ©2013
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