Yes, it is Saturday and I am posting for last Thursday (internet magic), yes she looks like she is smelling his underarm (she wasn’t, she was completely entranced by him), and yes time always seems to play games with us (it isn’t personal, at least I don’t believe it to be), but all there needs […]
View post →As I realized I only had a brand new sketchbook (read blank) with me, and heading to a client on the 6 train, I reached a little deeper and found my Books of Heads. Pulling it from my bag I found my subject. Just as I lifted my pen a man stopped a foot in […]
View post →I knew what would follow when the man on the left saw me turn the page and asked if I would draw him and his friend. I informed him that it would destroy the binding of sketch book if I pulled the paper out of it, but I promised to post it today. What are […]
View post →I was out late the other night and came across these wonderful fellows on the subway. 1 passed out and the other exhibiting just as much energy. ©2014 Greg Betza
View post →I loved this guy when I drew him. He had so much style. And plenty of attitude. But good attitude. Positive attitude. Proud attitude. —Dominick
View post →I stopped trying to hide the fact that I am drawing. I’ve been doing it for years now on my routine trips that I feel like I should put out a cup. Or at least wear a sign with this blog name on it. Sometimes I’ll get engaged in some discussion when I get off […]
View post →Can’t help but miss everything about this town. The streets, the food, the people (like this fellow passenger on the Lexington line), there is no place like New York and no place like the Upper East Side. —Dominick
View post →Seriously, when did December arrive? And how is it Thursday already? For those those taking part in the coming holy day, I hope you are all finding a little peace as you scurry about. For those of you just waiting for it to pass, thank you for bearing with us crazy folk for a little […]
View post →Texters…what can I say… Margaret Hurst
View post →Technically not one drawing (I could have gotten two posts out of this) but I knew when I drew these three that I would post them together. Two gentlemen got on the subway and set up their drums in the center of our car. It’s always the ones that play a different angle that you […]
View post →The feet were pretty good too, but the fact that it is noon and I am awake is the true test. Some sugary coffee, a lot of fruit and crossing my fingers that today will end much earlier than yesterday.—Dominick
View post →An older drawing I made on “track 24” at New York’s grand central terminal. TGIF. Greg Betza ©2013
View post →I won’t say I forgot, I just forgot what day it was. All of my alerts went off yesterday, yet this morning I had yet to post a new drawing. I quickly grabbed this one from Grand Central. I caught these two having pizza while waiting for a train.I was waiting for a train, they […]
View post →I couldn’t see this woman’s partner hidden behind another subway rider, but it was obvious they wanted to be as far from the man sitting next to them as possible. In fact they wanted to have the train to themselves it seemed.—Dominick
View post →I know most of us would probably say that our days do not go as planned. Or maybe it is just me. If I accomplish a fraction of what I set out to on most days, I would usually be pretty happy. Today in the midst of assignments and deadlines, the projects took a back […]
View post →The end of the holiday season and the start of the new semester is always a busy time for me – makes me miss those long warm summer days when I can go out and do a lot of drawing! But the New York City subway is always a great place to practice both my […]
View post →Last week I mentioned life can be crazy hectic most days here in New York City. Yet even on the run there’s always time for a quick drawing. So while riding the E train down by Canal Street last Friday, I did a small reportage of a woman reading the New York Post. (Wonder what she was reading? […]
View post →Riding into town earlier this week I got a chance to do a quick study on the subway. This woman’s energy was a little unusual and inviting to draw. With her chin up high and such an interesting portrait I couldn’t resist. p.s. Happy Birthday Chris! Drawing by  Michele
View post →I’ve been doing some work in New York City these last few weeks and have made a few drawings of the “happy” commuters. Here are two. If you’d like to see more, check out my blog where there is a series of these drawings. -Greg Betza
View post →This young man’s oddly-shaped bag gave him away as a musician, and he was a joy to draw listening to his ipod, which undoubtedly bestowed some sublime pleasures onto his carefully tuned ears…
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