Took this drawing I made of an Afro-Cuban band in New Orleans a few years ago and messed around with it in the computer. It was fun to create the brown line and add some music/energy marks in bright colors. This was an awesome band, the old Cuban guys really knew how to create a […]
View post →Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Nature’s Government, one of the illustrations for Journal of Empire Studies. Another really fun illustration to think about, work on and execute! Margaret Hurst
View post →Every year during the Fall my memories find their way back to Paris. And very few things evoke in me the feeling of being there than those distinctive claypots on the rooftops. During my 4 month stay many years ago, I lived in the tiniest apartment you could imagine and had one tiny window to […]
View post →Hidden back behind the trees. –Greg Betza
View post →Barcelona is such a beautifully surreal city. The architect, Antonio Gaudi, helped make it so with his organic, wonderfully undulating architecture. It snakes it’s way around the city and winds up in Park Guell, a massively exotic architectural fantasy land set atop a mountain looking down on Gaudi’s obsession, Sagrada Familia. I enjoyed the magical […]
View post →A lovely day at the China Pavilion at Epcot in Orlando. So many characters…so many drawings…so many lines…so many marks…so little time… Margaret Hurst
View post →China is in the news so much these days. I’ve been making drawings and gathering information. -Despina
View post →Here is another watercolor created at the New York Botanical Garden. –Greg Betza
View post →The Metropolitan Museum of Art … is a tree of life to the worlds greatest art. It’s my church, my schoolyard, my home away from home. Just 20 minutes from the house there’s no better place to be – Michele
View post →A drawing of the Zakim Bridge in Boston. I love the elegance of this bridge. I remember being very cold when I made this drawing, and there was a group of street people with a somewhat menacing air right near me, but neither of those things could break the impact seeing this bridge in twilight […]
View post →Join Indra and take a cosmic journey on the elephant of your choice and see where it takes you… Margaret Hurst
View post →here is a study I made of balloons passing each other in the sky. –Despina
View post →Tailgating at a football game in 83° weather is such a treat for fans living in the North-East. Here’s a drawing of some people standing around eating and drinking in their shorts, flip-flops and of course football jerseys. Greg Betza ©2011
View post →Neil and I took our bicycles through the Haitian neighborhood in Providenciales, and I did some drawing. There is a large Haitian community in the Turks & Caicos, because the local population iss not large enough to handle all the work that needs to be done in the hotels on Grace Bay. These guys were […]
View post →Another in the series from the Journal of Empire Studies blog. All about Egypt, the pyramids, the Nile, the sun, the all seeing eye, and our modern radar. Margaret Hurst
View post →Had a chance to catch the ex-Pavement frontman last Sunday night at Webster Hall in NYC. I decided to break out the black paper and crayons for this one. I always enjoy working in this “reverse” way and I just felt like it captured the mood a bit better than black on white…however, I did […]
View post →Drawing I made of a man as he spoke. Eddie Peña
View post →While my students are working at the Museum of Natural History, I entertain myself by drawing faces of people in the cafeteria. I swear that guy’s hair was out that far in front of his head. Posted by Veronica Lawlor.
View post →A watercolor of some flowers and lilies and water… Margaret Hurst
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