Part of staying close to home has been the realization that so much happens when you aren’t really paying attention. The number of bird calls I have discovered echoing through my neighborhood grows by the day. I also have noticed, just like watching a pot boil, that one should NOT watch grass grow. Nothing happens […]
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I did this illustration for a yearly encounter of waiting for the first snow. While it has snowed a few times, mostly before the winter began, I am still waiting for the blizzard, regardless of what that old groundhog says.—Dominick
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I pulled a little sketchbook out today and saw how much time had passed. The notes and thoughts in this book are timeless, but I know exactly when and where I was when I made them. The old saying, the more you learn the less you know has never proven more true as I read […]
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Each weekend Studio 1482 will be featuring posts from the One Drawing A Day archives. Today’s post is by Greg Betza, from back in 2012. It’s titled “Changing Season” #ODADarchive A watercolor and ink drawing I made of different plants at the beginning of winter. Some have withered away while others hang onto their beautiful fall […]
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Small painting from my window this morning. Greg Betza ©2017
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As the snow attempts to cover the ground before me, I see more than I have seen in years just how little it takes to make such a beautiful view. Minimal color, no leaves waiting to fall—or grow for that matter—just a serene landscape full of so much more than I have seen in seasons past. So as […]
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I figured I would close out the next two weeks with a few more autumnal scenes. This morning there are traces of snow left behind by the rain that followed the “overnight hope” of an extended weekend. Winter is bearing down but it is not quite here yet. Whether bitter or a little less brutal, […]
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“… I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh. – Here’s a pen and Ink drawing done while I was sitting under one of the most massive oak trees I’ve ever experienced at the NYBG. It was surreal … a feeling of small yet safe, cradled yet free, quiet yet special. Enjoy the little […]
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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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“Celebrating” my least favorite time of year with this drawing. The beginning of many months of cold weather. Sure it’s beautiful, but that is only to lessen the pain 🙂 Counting the days until spring already… Greg Betza ©2016
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Here is a drawing of the South side of the American Museum of Natural History I made in 2011. I remember standing on ice for the 30 minutes it took to make this drawing…and then I almost fell over when it was done since I couldn’t feel my feet. Greg Betza ©2016
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Back in winter I made 2 paintings of the same tree outside my studio window. This is the first painting I made that day. And here is a link to the second. Greg Betza ©2016
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I saw the shadows falling on this tree in the front of my house, and since I already had some watercolors out, I did a quick painting. Greg Betza ©2016
View post →For a few moments on Saturday morning I thought the predictions were being proven wrong, that the path of the storm had pushed north and that I would finally see the ground covered with snow. But the blizzard like scene lasted only minutes and sure enough stalled to a slow and steady dusting. And a […]
View post →Hope you’re all enjoying winter so far. This is a piece from the Seasons of 1482 project. Greg Betza ©2015
View post →Last week I posted about snow on the first day of spring. It seems as if Old Man Winter is having a difficult time letting go of the spotlight from the flurries we saw again yesterday here in the city. Above is a watercolor reportage I did at the NYBG a few years back this very week talking […]
View post →Ok, so the first day of Spring was yesterday and yes, it did snow in New York and a bit of the Northeast. but it was a warm wet snow. Signs that the thaw is upon us, or rather finishing. In just one short week most of the snow that covered the ground I wasn’t […]
View post →As Despina pointed out so beautifully on Tuesday, this past weekend we were at Mystic Seaport with the Dalvero Academy. The seaport was so beautiful in the snow on Sunday, and it was so dreamlike to see the masts of the Charles W. Morgan, anchored at Chubb’s Wharf, peeking over the tops of the trees and […]
View post →Oddly enough, the one thing I dreaded about making the cross country trip in January was the possibility of missing a snow storm. I am one of the vocal few who love winter, love the snow, love the cold. Yes, I said love. Don’t curse me out. I don’t do the Calvin snow dance—at least […]
View post →This is a holiday card I put together for a client a few years back. It was fun to mix traditional media with a digital application for this one. Hope you had a wonderful holiday and Happy New Year to you all! ©Greg Betza 2014
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