Certain elements seem to pop up when you need them most, or maybe you just weren’t ready to see them until the right moment. No matter what, pay attention to everything.—Dominick
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Each weekend Studio 1482 will be featuring posts from the One Drawing A Day archives. Today’s post is by Dominick Santise, from back in 2016. It’s titled “Into the Crowd.” #ODADarchive Another Florida drawing from years back. I still remember my first time drawing down at the Magic Kingdom. The smells, the crowds—the newness of it […]
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Each weekend Studio 1482 will be featuring posts from the One Drawing A Day archives. Today’s post is by Dominick Santise, from back in 2016. It’s titled “Drawing Friends” #ODADarchive Another drawing from years ago in the Magic Kingdom (Mickey has been on my mind lately). Another reminder of things that have changed. Change is always […]
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This past weekend I picked up a project from 13 years ago and started the next phase. As much as putting the project down many years ago has haunted me, I wish I could say life was better today and there was no need for this. But unfortunately what was warned about many years ago […]
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Today is International Women’s Day. It celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women globally with dozens of events held worldwide. “The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the […]
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So if I would have been asked, the wild dog on the safari I took this past summer at the Animal Kingdom in Walt Disney World, I would have called it a hyena. Two things are important—I have taken this safari a few times in the past and I am surrounded by small things that love animals—I think […]
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The thought of a childhood without any fantasy just conjures up the most treacherous upbringing I could possibly imagine. I can’t say I had a Stranger Things obsession with monsters, I only dabbled in D&D for a very short period of time, but even though I rarely strayed too far from home when I was young, ten feet into […]
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The rain was pouring down, as it often does; shelter was too far away, and the day was drawing to a close. Time spent looking for a better spot to make myself comfortable would have been wasted. Everything was soaked, not to dry until days after I returned home and laid out all the paper and supplies that I carried. Problems […]
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No matter how many times I round the corner in the “African Safari,” knowing full well that the pachyderms will be in full view at any moment, I am always in awe of the beauty, size, and majesty of the elephants as they socialize with one another, marking their territory by gouging the earth and […]
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The endless streams of people at Disney on a hot summers’ day in the Magic Kingdom. There was little relief from the heat, but it was great to be there with Veronica and Margaret and the Dalvero crew. So much great work from everyone. —Dominick
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I am forever being asked what the forecast for the day is and never have the answer. A long time ago I learned to always carry an umbrella—except of course on consecutive days of rain when I leave it drying off—so the added stress of what the day holds in terms of percipitation. I don’t […]
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A study from last summer. Not much to say. I think, like today, it rained upon my progress, but I pushed on. Seemed the right drawing on this grey overcast day. Happy Monday to all.—Dominick
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As the bbq’s get underway, pools are opened, and lazy Fridays and weekend agendas booked from now ’til September, in many towns, villages, and cities, this weekend finishes with a small tribute to those who have been killed in service to our country. There is some question as to where the very first “Memorial Day” […]
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Another drawing—missed when I was thumbing through last week—from the lost book. I remember doing the drawing, who I was with, and while not of great importance just thinking I should—never knowing that the location would be changed and that the drawing would mean a little more for reasons only some will understand. I went […]
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I had the pleasure of hosting guests this past weekend—family I don’t get to see often, but always welcome the opportunity when it arises. We tend to get past what’s going on in our lives rather fluidly and start pondering broader subjects. Nothing topical—we never discussed the state of insanity that is the world at […]
View post →I have loved parades for as far back as I can remember—on the television, on the sidelines, blocks away—there is always something that seems so magical about so many different types of people celebrating in unity. The pageantry of the next honored participant, gazed at by young and old along the edges, overflowing into […]
View post →Growing up I never thought of myself as a fantasy loving person. My guess is that I really didn’t know what it was exactly. I confused sci-fi and fantasy and didn’t know how to separate them, and to me sci-fi was an alien movie for some reason. Obviously as time went on I learned the […]
View post →It had been some time since I was in Disney proper—pen and pad in hand and a bag of drawing materials on my back. And it had been some time since I just had the day to draw, nothing else. No emails, no phone calls, no other schedules. Eating even became a second thought. Yes, it […]
View post →Eddie’s post last Sunday inspired me to flip thru one of my sketchbooks from deep in the archives. What a trip! I found drawings I did my second summer on location with my teacher and mentor, the late David J. Passalaqua. Despite dating myself, this drawing was done in Disney World in 1992. (Yep, it’s 20 years […]
View post →” We may be able to tell the story of departed nations and conquering chieftains who have added pages of tears and blood to the world’s history; but our education is deficient if we are perfectly ignorant how to guide the little feet that are springing up so gladly in our path …” This was […]
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