A watercolor painted at the New York Botanical Gardens with a little bit of writing underneath about our first amendment rights. Margaret Hurst FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY! In our new Facebook group, One Watercolor A Day, (view it HERE) we’ll be encouraging readers to follow along with the exercises on a weekly basis, and post their results. We’d love […]
View post →This is a piece painted at the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park. It didn’t make it into our new book (see below!), so I thought I’d share it with you. FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY! In our new Facebook group, One Watercolor A Day, (view it HERE) we’ll be encouraging readers to follow along with the exercises […]
View post →Watercolor painting of a flower. Eddie Peña Following the philosophy of our previous book, One Watercolor A Day is not a step-by-step or how-to book, but rather, a book that encourages the reader to use our art and suggestions as a point of departure for self-discovery and creativity through the art of watercolor. Meant for beginner artists […]
View post →Another point of view from another viewer of Perseus at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Â It really was funny to me how some people, like this guy, would hang out looking at Perseus very attentively. I always wondered what it was exactly that they were drawn to about the sculpture. who knows? Sword, anatomy, sculpture? […]
View post →I took a quick trip down to Philadelphia on Tuesday to see one of my favorite performers (Destroyer) do a solo set. I watched from the balcony and was amazed by how many lights, wires, cables, disco ball!, etc. were hanging from the ceiling in this tiny little place. Greg Betza ©2013
View post →Ink model drawing by Eddie Peña
View post →The statue of Perseus at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is no longer on view, but I made a pretty lengthy series of drawings of people as they passed him by. I always found it very amusing to watch people in the context of Perseus; how they reacted, or didn’t react, to him […]
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 →Returning to my roots.  I grew up reading and drawing comics.  Here is a glimpse of a project I’m working on. Eddie Peña
View post →I took advantage of the mild day in New York last Saturday to go up to the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park and play with drawing. Did this, just messing around, plus a few more thumbnails, and playing with drawing in the i-pad too. It was just relaxed fun, and I’ve been so busy this […]
View post →A hand of Rodin, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I would give anything to have watched Rodin draw and sculpt. Every drawing, every sculpture feels alive and ready to walk away, or sit, or make love, or roll up into a ball, or crawl. It doesn’t matter. It’s alive, and I feel the energy. […]
View post →Here is another of my ink studies. See last week’s post for a few others. ©2013 Greg Betza
View post →I often find myself thinking about Barcelona, and missing both the city and the friends I’ve made there. Neil and I visited in 2010, and I went back with Ashley this past summer to give a workshop at the Urban Sketchers symposium. It’s funny, one of my favorite things to say when it starts getting […]
View post →On our, Dalvero Academy’s, latest trip to Mystic Seaport I made a drawing of the ends of the three masts that will be placed on the Charles W Morgan within the next month or two. One of the masts already was put in place. Looking forward to the other two!I drew this with a piece […]
View post →Here are 2 women I saw on the street. I enjoy trying to capture a person in a simple ink wash. It forces you to focus on the shape and body language, not the details. Greg Betza ©2013
View post →As the weather is starting to get colder here in New York, I felt like putting a little sunshine up on our blog. This mixed media drawing/painting was made at Monet’s garden in Giverny this past June, while I was visiting with my family. Monet had quite a set-up! Get up every morning, coffee and […]
View post →Here is a drawing with watercolor of the Morgan, the crane and the town of Mystic behind it. The history of this town is incredible. This scene is after the heavy mast was erected onto the ship, when the crane was dropping cement weights into the hull as ballast. To see more of my reportage […]
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I too took part in the Workbook Creative Carnival last Thursday (see Dominick’s post from yesterday) in Chicago. Dominick and I headed out for the windy city by car and did as much drawing as we could along the way. Here is a drawing of the Trump International Hotel and other buildings along Michigan Avenue. […]
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