This week’s post is a reportage illustration from August 2019, made on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. I was mid-drawing when the skies opened up and the rain decorated my page. I ducked into a nearby Italian restaurant and called my friend Marg, who lives nearby, and she met me for lunch. It’s those […]
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Each weekend Studio 1482 will be featuring posts from the One Drawing A Day archives. Today’s post is by Dominick Santise, from back in 2016. It’s titled “Waiting for a Burger.” #ODADarchive I’ve been playing with my brush pen a bit lately. The name is in Japanese, so I have no idea what it is called. […]
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I often am asked the question: “do you REALLY make one drawing every day?” And the answer is yes, most definitely I do! Does that mean that I am sitting down and making a drawing with a capitol D each day? No, what it means is that drawing has become the way that I negotiate […]
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I recently spent a nice afternoon drawing with friends at the FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island – this drawing is of the monument at the end of the park. Designed by Louis I. Kahn, it’s the first memorial dedicated to FDR in his home state of NY. More info here. The park honors […]
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I finished a project two weeks, and like one of the drawings from it, it is becoming something of yesterday. —Dominick
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Reportage drawing of the LGBTQ Solidarity Rally/Protest on February 4, 2017 at the Stonewall Inn, NYC. Life, healing, sunlight, nature, harmony and spirit.—Margaret
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On August 6, 1945, during World War II, an American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. One of those people was Sadako Sasaki. […]
View post →Did a quick drawing while waiting for lunch on Stone Street and thinking of the first settlers in lower Manhattan. Narrow streets and “tall” buildings make it all very European. —Dominick
View post →Did it really have to snow 5 inches here in the city on the first day of spring? Yearning for the days when the sun kisses you on the shoulder and the breeze can run through your hair whispering ease is in the air. Ahhh for the love of spring…Michele
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 →I am not one for summer. Or at least not the summer that everyone else partakes in. The sun is a beautiful thing but I like it better when we are tilted away from it rather than towards it, bathing in the solar warmth is no where on my to do list. But the one […]
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 →A drawing of the NYC skyline that I made from Central Park, while completing one of my favorite reportage assignments. The skyline keeps changing, but I’ll always love New York. posted by Veronica
View post →Back in 2003 I was really working hard at learning to draw people, crowds, space, etc. Here is a study with all of those in mind. Greg Betza ©2013
View post →Honor the victims today by taking a moment to look around, consider, and find the beauty in everything. © Greg Betza 2013
View post →Recently I had the wonderful opportunity to draw the Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s west side, from a bird’s eye view. The yards are used right now as a rail yard to house MTA trains – – it will soon become a huge development, with luxury apartments, shopping, theater, etc., etc. You can read about it […]
View post →Spring is here in NYC, and that means Union Square is hopping. Made this quick drawing while waiting to meet the students of my last Pratt Location Drawing class this semester. What a great group, I was sorry to see the class end. Posted by Veronica
View post →About 10 years ago I spent a lot of time walking all around the city drawing just to draw. Here is one from that time. Greg Betza ©2013
View post →In honor of September 11, here is a drawing of the Freedom Tower as it ascends to the sky. Greg Betza ©2012
View post →Here is a quick pencil sketch made down at the South Street Seaport, New York. It’s a great place to spend a hot summer afternoon. –Greg Betza
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