Kika was looking positively operatic in this beautiful costume at our studio yesterday. Spent a blissful four days doing a little teaching and a little drawing during our Dalvero Academy Advanced Drawing and Painting workshop in Brooklyn. Sigh… Now, back to reality… do we have to? posted by Veronica (More drawings will be posted on […]
View post →Here is another watercolor study I did last year at the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Santo Domingo. With temperatures in the single digits in New York City today, it’s hard for me to imagine that I was ever in a climate this warm. Let me try though, it might cheer me up!! 🙂 I hear […]
View post →In honor of the upcoming New Year, I thought I’d post a painting from the Brooklyn Botanical Garden of the torii, a traditional Japanese gate found at the entrance to Shinto shrines. The torii typically marks the entrance from the profane to the sacred and can symbolize new beginnings and passageways. Wishing you all a […]
View post →Wishing you and yours a very Happy Holiday season! Cheers! – Veronica Lawlor —————————————————————————————————– The first reviews of One Watercolor A Day are in! Watercolor is a medium with a reputation for being difficult to learn and master. “One Watercolor A Day” dispels that in its first few pages. If you;e just starting out, […]
View post →And the winner of our One Watercolor A Day free book giveaway is… Melissa Bellantone! Congratulations Melissa! Please send us an email to info[at]studio1482.com with your full mailing address, and your complimentary copy of One Watercolor A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity Using Watercolor, Pattern, and Design will be on its way to you. […]
View post →A watercolor study of a woman walking with a basket of bananas on her head, done in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She was so beautiful, I couldn’t believe it. posted by Veronica FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY! In our new Facebook group, One Watercolor A Day, (view it HERE) we’ll be encouraging readers to follow along with […]
View post →Playing with watercolors at the Roman Colosseum. Oh yes, that was a very good day. 🙂 posted by Veronica 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 […]
View post →I don’t usually paint like this, but I really enjoyed slowing down to look, and taking my time putting down layers of color…it was kind of a meditative experience. It’s interesting to see what colors are really there and how your eye interprets them. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Along with family and friends, I always find […]
View post →We’re so excited – the sequel to our One Drawing A Day book is available for pre-order, and hits the shelves in December! The book is called: One Watercolor A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity Using Watercolor, Pattern, and Design. Written by Veronica Lawlor, it features the watercolor work of all seven Studio 1482 […]
View post →Playing with the brushes app in my i-Pad, drawing some autumn leaves in Union Square Park. Sigh.. Posted by Veronica
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 →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 →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 […]
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This is a thumbnail sketch for an illustration job I’m working on about Cuba. Would love to visit there some day! posted by Veronica
View post →Playing with watercolor at the Colosseum in Rome…I can’t really think of a better way to spend an afternoon. Especially when it ends with pasta and vino. 😉 posted by Veronica
View post →The fall is always the busiest, most hectic, time of year for me, and yesterday was one of those days. Three classes in one day, with a lot of running around – I call them ‘three borough days’ because I have to be in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, and back again. Going under and over […]
View post →No really, it’s big. That crazy Roman Colosseum. Had trouble fitting it into my pad. I like that kind of trouble. 😉 posted by Veronica
View post →How wonderful it is to sit and play with art in the Piazza Navona, while eating a tartufo. Rome…the city where color is king. What a fantastic trip. posted by Veronica
View post →Just last week, the Dalvero Academy show at Mystic Seaport, Restoring a Past, Charting a Future, came down. Above is one of a series of knot drawings I made that didn’t make the show. It’s a “whale coil” – the certain way a line needs to be coiled so that when the whale shows up […]
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