A painting/drawing made in Paris. ©2012 Greg Betza
View post →… in Rockefeller Center. visit my blog for more from the day , Michele
View post →–Despina Georgiadis
View post →Since the band Dinosaur Jr released their amazing album “You’re Living All Over Me“. Two weeks ago they played a concert at Terminal 5 in New York City to celebrate. It was an amazing show with special guests including Frank Black, Kim Gordon and Johnny Marr. I will post more drawings from the night on […]
View post →Hot dogs and french fries…good or bad. Really what says “americana” any better? Drawing done in pen and ink on Main Street USA,WDW by Michele
View post →I did a little experimenting when I was illustrating a book cover. I bought a fern and used a stem of it to create a watercolor version of it. Â I brushed the one side of the leaf with red watercolor and pressed it on the watercolor paper, twice. The fuller version was the first “lay […]
View post →I’ve been playing around with watercolors lately. Here is one for the holidays. Greg Betza ©2012
View post →Study of a lady in watercolor pencils. Quick drawing observing an older woman in state of suspicion.
View post →This is a series of watercolor and gold pen pattern designs that I created. I had been looking at a lot of Japanese fabrics and prints and they inspired me to paint, draw and design these “patterns of nature.” They were just an inspirational experiment in abstraction, pattern and design and I ended up really […]
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Watercolor by: Eddie PenaView post →
I was looking through some of my drawing /art notebooks and found some of my Patterned Fantasy Landscapes. I started out thinking about a vineyard and continued to fantasize about other objects that might appear in this vineyard patterned landscape. Different types of bodies, sea creatures, land animals and checkered landscapes came to mind. Margaret […]
View post →On behalf of all of us at One Drawing A Day and Studio 1482, I’d like to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving. Greg Betza ©2012
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Times Square (NYC) Sketch by: Eddie PeñaView post →
A rose is a beautiful thing to look at whenever you can!  This particular rose was drawn and water colored at the Bronx Botanical Gardens in New York. It was great  because so many beautiful roses and other flowers were in bloom that day that it was hard to pick out a particular flower.  I […]
View post →My contribution to the Studio 1482 Hurricane Sandy fundraiser, is titled: Bethesda Fountain Angel, NYC. I chose this image of the Angel as she is a symbol of healing, blessing the waters of the Bethesda Fountain in New York’s Central Park. In response to Hurricane Sandy’s devastating effects on the New York and New Jersey […]
View post →In response to Hurricane Sandy’s devastating effects on the New York and New Jersey area, the illustrators of Studio 1482 have each created a print of one of their favorite New York City images to raise money for the displaced victims of […]
View post →Watercolor of a Japanese Pagoda overlooking its garden. ©2012 Greg Betza
View post →Hurricane Sandy has blown through and taken a beating on my beloved New York City. This was the scene at Avenue D and 11th Street on Friday morning, it looked like a refugee camp. People lined up for a hot meal, food, blankets, diapers, anything you could need. Local fire hydrants were opened up and […]
View post →New York is a great city. I was afraid of it when I saw it for the first time many, many years ago: it was soooo tall! I grew to love it over the years I’ve been living here. I have always maintained that New York City is it’s own country. What don’t we have? […]
View post →Terrible storm we had a few days ago. Hurricane Sandy…wow. Not much to say except that I wish all affected a speedy recovery. Here is a tree across the street from my home. It ripped up the lawn in this perfect triangle. Unbelievable. ©2012 Greg Betza
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