It’s always so much fun to look at a huge mess like this scene from the demolition site of the old Giants Stadium. It’s “eye candy”. From the mountains of gravel to the crooked metal beams, the whole scene became one giant texture. See a couple of more drawings from that day on my blog. […]
View post →Construction workers doing their thing. These drawings were made a while back in New York city on the Upper East Side. It was great drawing at a construction site. There was so much going on and so much body language to go along with it! Fun! Margaret Hurst
View post →Manhattan is BOOMING with new construction lately, and no place in the city is seeing this more than Chelsea. Since the Highline stopped being an industrial eyesore of the West side and became a chic park, seems like all the ritzy people want to live there. So many new glass palaces going up everywhere – […]
View post →From the date, you can see this is one from a while back. I was living in Hoboken, NJ at the time and this drawing was made during the construction of an addition to Stevens Institute of Technology. I love how a drawing can become a historical document. drawing by Greg Betza
View post →I spent some time at Ground Zero Friday. It’s an incredibly powerful place, I imagine unlike any other. The site has been transformed into a city of cranes and construction. I can’t help but think that this is exactly how it must have looked in the 1970s during the building of the Twin Towers. While […]
View post →These are two faces/portraits from the construction site I drew at a few years ago. Â I’d like to introduce Vinny and Tuna. Â Tuna’s real name is Charles, hence Charlie, hence Charlie the Tuna, hence Tuna. Â Tuna is a great guy. Â He gave me cardboard to sit on instead of the cold, hard sidewalk. Â Vinny was […]
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