Recently spent some time with Neil in Skaneateles, NY. Beautiful place. I was inspired to draw this house and grouping of trees on the lake in pastel. posted by Veronica
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Spending a little time away with Neil, in a country cottage in upstate New York. It started to snow, just a little, today, adding a veil of lace to this quaint country scene. Pastels were the medium of choice…posted by Veronica.
View post →Here is a small watercolor from Lake Kournas on the Greek island of Crete. I visited my family there in 2009. -Despina
View post →I don’t know why I should be surprised when I see a burst of color along the horizon, I keep waking to sunny days left over from September. These temperatures are not right, but the colors are nice. Funny how a few days of rain will make the next few days that much brighter. Enjoy […]
View post →The tragic events that unfolded Friday night in Paris sits too close to home. Having lost my husband on 9/11 to a terrorist attack I only have to close my eyes and sit for a brief moment to feel the vibrations of pain that are often just right under the surface. Please pray for those who were lost […]
View post →This is one of those drawings that has to be investigated up close. It’s made up of hundreds of marks from “far and wide” in the Chinese pavilion in Epcot Center, WDW. Hope you had a fabulous Sunday! – Michele Drawing 60″W x 18″H in pen and ink by Michele Bedigian
View post →On a recent trip California, I visited the Getty Center in LA. Beautiful place. Here is a pastel drawing of their famous bougainvillea canopies. I call them flower martinis. ~Despina
View post →A few months ago I was commissioned to work on a wine label for the Limited Edition of Nolita, an Italian wine. I was happy to spend my time drawing the bucolic scene of a hillside village in Italy with cypress trees and terracotta rooftops. It was my absolute pleasure, especially since I always imagine […]
View post →Here is another ink drawing of some plants and flowery-things hanging over a pond. I posted a few others in this series here and here. Happy Monday. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →Ok, so the first day of Spring was yesterday and yes, it did snow in New York and a bit of the Northeast. but it was a warm wet snow. Signs that the thaw is upon us, or rather finishing. In just one short week most of the snow that covered the ground I wasn’t […]
View post →This is a detail from an enormous drawing I did last summer, (4′ x 6′ to be exact). Sometimes when you’re in the middle of a drawing you don’t see the subtlety in moments (or frames) within the “big picture”. It can take time to actually READ YOUR DRAWING and genuinely SEE WHAT IT’S DELIVERED. This […]
View post →Here is another pastel drawing I made while visiting Sedona with fellow 1482-er Margaret Hurst a few years ago. What a gorgeous place – the landscape is so beautiful you almost can’t believe it’s real! There are supposedly areas in Sedona called ‘vortexes’ where you can feel some kind of gravitational pull of the Earth. […]
View post →Ok, so we have a few weeks left. And this week hasn’t been so bad. I was told this morning that the already cold (and snowy) New York landscape that we are in for this year is to be followed by the most brutal heat wave of a summer. Just when I let my eco-conscious […]
View post →From a morning spent sitting near the water in Hoboken, NJ. Greg Betza
View post →I made this drawing in Chania, Crete in the summer of 2009. According to my note, it is called the ‘Back Door Cafe‘, a rather pedestrian name for a place in such an amazing city. Greg Betza ©2014
View post →This is a small watercolor painting I made a few summers ago. ©2014 Greg Betza
View post →Here is a drawing I made of the Fort Duquesne Bridge while sitting on the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh has a reputation (because of the steel industry) as being very industrial and gritty, and while it is, it is also incredibly beautiful…especially if you like bridges. Pittsburgh boasts a total of 446 bridges […]
View post →I don’t mind the cooler weather at all, nor a little rain (OK, a lot of rain, but it seems to have stopped)—the one great benefit of the strange weather is the strange weather. Weird grey fog rolling across the Hudson with pops of emerging greens and pink colors. A few of the thumbnails from […]
View post →Another Japanese inspired landscape done with ink and wash. Have a great Saturday. Greg Betza ©2014
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Here is a small drawing I made while visiting Chicago last year. I was trying to convey the gritty feeling I had always associated with that city. But to be honest, it is really quite a beautiful, clean place. The grit was hard to find. See more drawings from my trip here. Greg Betza ©2014
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