Happy New Year! I made this green watercolor at the New York Botanical Garden. The focal point is the spherical astrolabe which sits near the entrance of the conservatory. Greg Betza ©2014
View post →Happy New Year! Eddie Peña
View post →The Rose of Peace that the messenger was delivering last week. Wishing everyone Peace in their lives for 2014, and always. Margaret Hurst
View post →A similar, but different picture, of the canal watercolor in our One Watercolor A Day book, from Venice, Italy. Venice is by far one of the most beautiful cities I’ve seen and drawn. I could look at and draw and paint gondoliers, gondolas and canals forever and love every minute of it! Va bene! Margaret […]
View post →Watercolor portraits by Eddie Peña. 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 […]
View post →This painting did not make it into our new book, but it is one of my favorite watercolors. I was able to explore a new color palette here and that is always exciting for me. Have a great Saturday! Greg Betza ©2013 FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY! In our new Facebook group, One Watercolor A Day, […]
View post →On one of many trips to Disney’s Animal Kingdom, I began to draw some grass and leaves and then a butterfly lit on one of the leaves I was drawing. The butterfly was so beautiful I thought it would be nice to create many of them. So I wet some leaves with watercolor […]
View post →This painting was made as I watched thousands of people, and their colorful clothes, move in and out amongst the tall trees of Central Park. Greg Betza ©2013 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 […]
View post →Watercolor drawing of a bonsai tree. Eddie Peña 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 to see […]
View post →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 →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. […]
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