I made this drawing last night at the Destroyer show at Webster Hall in New York City. I recently bought some new markers and wanted to try them out…well basically they’re just like any other markers. Oh well. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →Not as much of an event as the May Day Protests, but Union Square is always one of the best spots in New York for people watching and of course spending some time drawing. I found myself with a few hours to kill, an unusual event as of late, and nearby one of my favorite […]
View post →A drawing of May Day in Union Square earlier this year. The press photographing and getting ready to interview the protesters. M. Hurst
View post →With the renovation of St. Patrick’s cathedral complete (or close to complete) and the Pope being in town I was reminded of a few drawings I made inside the cathedral. Here is a page of studies from inside the Neo-gothic cathedral. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →It rained much of my time in London, poured many days. So when the sky’s broke and the sun was shining I found myself at the end of the Millennium Bridge with St. Paul’s Cathedral in the background. Didn’t get as many drawings done as I would have liked, but I certainly laid the plans […]
View post →I’m sad to see you go. Drawing from the beach. Aruba 2015. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →I’ve been to London once before, and while I am here now by the end of the day I will be back in NY and little time will have passed. It is amazing how spans of time can come or go, dragging on or flying by. Seems like yesterday I landed. Thanks to Stafford […]
View post →Two lovely ladies waiting in line with one of their little girls, on a hot summer’s day, to see an enchanted princess at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. I love the one lady’s Mickey Mouse Ears hat with the little antenna on the top! She looks like she’s going to take off into the magical air! […]
View post →I have loved parades for as far back as I can remember—on the television, on the sidelines, blocks away—there is always something that seems so magical about so many different types of people celebrating in unity. The pageantry of the next honored participant, gazed at by young and old along the edges, overflowing into […]
View post →Took a few minutes to draw the wonderful Disney World Tea Cup ride at the Magic Kingdom a few weeks ago while working with Dalvero artists! Lots of selfies, but no selfie sticks, unfortunately! The Tea Cups are my favorite ride, mostly because people rotate themselves a little extra and they get off the ride […]
View post →It had been some time since I was in Disney proper—pen and pad in hand and a bag of drawing materials on my back. And it had been some time since I just had the day to draw, nothing else. No emails, no phone calls, no other schedules. Eating even became a second thought. Yes, it […]
View post →I just returned from a beautiful week in Aruba. Here is a moment I witnessed between a mother and her young daughter building sandcastles on the edge of the calm blue water. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →Another drawing of Mr. Gandhi at Union Square. Many items will often be placed in Mr. Gandhi’s arms: flowers, pizza containers, etc.. On Sunday there was a bouquet of sunflowers placed in a Starbuck’s plastic coffee cup. There was some water placed in the cup to feed the sunflowers. This was placed on Gandhi’s right […]
View post →Finally! I saw a band, 2 bands actually, play outside of the US! Read more about it on my blog. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →I happened to be in Union Square on Sunday, August 9th. It was the one year anniversary of the black, unarmed teenager Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri. A group gathered to talk about the death and the death of many others involving the police. The man on the left in the drawing lost two […]
View post →Film III Yellow to be exact, but that is not story. I found myself drawing alongside my father the other day, oddly enough 2 years to the day I started documenting him. I pulled up to the shop a “little while” after he did. I couldn’t hear the presses running so I knew I was […]
View post →I love to check out the Gandhi statue in Union Square. I was there the other day and decided it had been awhile since I drew Mr. Gandhi, so I decided to draw him, Sunflowers and all! Margaret Hurst
View post →A few weeks ago I spent a night in Paris. Here is a drawing of the very French waitress that served me dinner. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →I’ve just returned from a trip to Belgium. While enjoying a beer one afternoon I spotted this gentleman sipping a beer too. He deserved it after all of the work it must have take to get that mustache just right! Greg Betza ©2015
View post →Until this day I had never had the desire to ride in a basket (bread goes in a basket, not people), but as the mass of balloons floated over my head at the Dutchess County Balloon Festival and the last one appeared above the heads of the crowds as it was inflated, I found myself […]
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