Whenever I am trying to describe to someone the feeling that a moment creates in my mind I think back to any one of the events in my lifetime that have carved such a deep memory that it can be recalled instantly. That is what inauguration day has become for me. This year however I […]
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Twelves years ago tomorrow I was standing in the bitter cold just off center of the Washington Monument witnessing my first presidential inauguration. I vowed that day that I would return every four years. Somehow I looked it as a new piece of my American identity. And try as I did this year, first finding […]
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I hadn’t looked at Ronnie’s entry from yesterday until just after I decided what I would post today. Before that I was hesitant. My intention was to draw something uplifting because, hell, after this past year I am tired of bad news. I know I am not alone. But the fact is now is not […]
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Can’t say it hasn’t been on my mind all of the time, so I wasn’t surprised when a fall foliage painting turned into a small tribute to Puerto Rico.—Dominick
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This past weekend I picked up a project from 13 years ago and started the next phase. As much as putting the project down many years ago has haunted me, I wish I could say life was better today and there was no need for this. But unfortunately what was warned about many years ago […]
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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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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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I looked out my window this morning and saw this tree to my left and this tree to my right. Amazing what you see when something is on your mind. Greg Betza ©2016
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Teaching my son about the Presidential Transition and how the sitting president will get a strange nick name very soon. Drawing made with leftover Halloween makeup sticks. ~Despina
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It’s too painful to discuss the present day political situation. Here’s a charcoal portrait of a president from a less embarrassing period of our nation’s history. ~Despina
View post →Also called the Jefferson Library, the building itself was indescribably beautiful. The Americans wanted to show that they are just as cultured and educated as any european city. Boy did they prove it with this building. One of the men behind it all… Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president of the United States. I drew a […]
View post →I have been digging through some old work, hoping to find new work misplaced, and found this “thumbnail” I made a while back. With all the crowds in NYC this week for President Obama’s visit I figured a mass of people made sense. Hoping I missed all the fun on my trip in today.—Dominick
View post →Spent the day at the museum again. Got lost in a few projects, but found some inspiration as I was on my way out. I picked up a copy of and started reading Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt by John Burroughs. Two people I have always held in high regard.—Dominick
View post →Another drawing from Washington a few weeks ago. I finally posted the inauguration drawings. Please check them out.—Dominick
View post →First, for those who were there yesterday, it was not cold. Actually, yesterday was a day at the beach. As those who were there the first time, cold was four years ago. That was the coldest day on earth that I have ever been outside. I swear. On two bibles if necessary. Yesterday, I got […]
View post →” We may be able to tell the story of departed nations and conquering chieftains who have added pages of tears and blood to the world’s history; but our education is deficient if we are perfectly ignorant how to guide the little feet that are springing up so gladly in our path …” This was […]
View post →this is another drawing from my book “The barber of New York” . It shows George Washington being sworn into office as president of the new United States of America. I love American history (especially New York City history — did you know NYC was the original capital of the new nation?
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