Howdy Monday people! Let’s see if a weekend can give me enough time to have a post ready all year long. For those of you expecting another Studio member today,we all shifted around a bit. Don’t think I’ve ever had the privilege to start out the week, at least not for the foreseeable future. I’ll […]
View post →I think ‘practice’ is a good word for my first post of 2016. Keep working, keep learning. This is a practice head I created while working on portraits and testing out some new watercolors. Happy New Year! Greg Betza ©2016
View post →Not sure what this has to do with the Ides of March, most likely nothing. My six years of Latin has been poking it’s head into many aspects of my life lately. Don’t ask me more then ten words, but the literature, the myths, the poetry; I could recite Latin verse for days. OK, maybe […]
View post →I made this portrait of my son as he was reading. When I finished I looked at it and I didn’t see the six year old James, I saw what I believe he will look like in 10 years. Now I have to try not to blink or else the years will go by just […]
View post →Watercolor on paper ~Despina
View post →A few years ago I worked on a project about the collective warped ego of the world today. Every time I hear something terrible in the news, I can’t help but think of certain aspects of humanity in this way. ~Despina
View post →I saw this woman get on the train yesterday and immediately she moved around in such a way that I had to draw her. I think she knew. —Dominick
View post →I loved this guy when I drew him. He had so much style. And plenty of attitude. But good attitude. Positive attitude. Proud attitude. —Dominick
View post →Can’t help but miss everything about this town. The streets, the food, the people (like this fellow passenger on the Lexington line), there is no place like New York and no place like the Upper East Side. —Dominick
View post →A charcoal drawing from a recent session with a model. -Greg Betza ©2013
View post →Would it hold any weight at all? I certainly can’t blame her, even though she doesn’t stay still for long. —Dominick
View post →I guess it comes back around every seven days, doesn’t it.-Dominick
View post →I did this at the Botanical garden…
View post →I spent the afternoon at Barnes and Noble the other day. During my break for some coffee at the Starbucks cafe, I made some drawings of the people around me:clockwise froom the top left: the whiny kid, the satisfied customer, the shy girl waiting to order, the eccentric dude, the quiet reader, the old woman […]
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