So in the spirit of drawings, Studio 1482 has switched gears two weeks into their One Drawing A Day project and created a separate website to host the daily drawings. Every day a different member will post a new drawing, building a beautiful archive of Studio images. While we will still post an occasional drawing here, you can now find One Drawing A Day here.
One Drawing a Day, that’s 365 drawings in a year. Not bad, it’s fortunate for my colleagues and I that we love to draw. As reportage artists, Illustrators, designers, photographer, film makers and painters we love to think with our hands.
The drawing for today speaks for itself. That’s my Grandpa, he has the thousand yard stare. I wouldn’t be the man I am today without him. He is as close to my beginning as I will ever know. We don’t have the long lineage story of how we came to be where we are.
He grew up in Dominican Republic, met my Grandma, had 11 kids and came to America. The past is not something he has ever been interested in talking about but who he is and what he has done is sufficient. Happy Father’s Day abuelo.
OTRA is one hot latin jazz dance band that I saw performing at the Blue Nile in New Orleans. I met Sam Price, the bassist, when I was drawing him performing with another group at a club on Bourbon Street. “You’ve got to come to Frenchman Street and draw!” he said, and drew me a map to get there the following evening to see his own band perform. Frenchman Street is very cool, Sam was right; a small winding street with little jazz clubs interspersed with pink and blue shotgun houses and magnolia trees. On a warm spring night the air smells like honeysuckle and the people and music spill out of the tiny clubs on to the street. So I went to the Blue Nile and saw Sam’s band Otra - they were HOT! Sam gave me one of their CD’s, I’ll give you the description from the liner notes and let them describe their music: “The backbone of OTRA is no doubt the fire-hot, hip shaking beats oozing out of percussionists Humberto ‘Pupi’ Menes and the always smiling Cristobal ‘El Canon’ on timbales. Together the soaring horns, propulsive grooves, and shake that a** sound make OTRA an unbeatable combination.” - Indeed! Check out their sound at www.otramusic.com - it lives up to their description!! - Veronica
Hi, Margaret here!
Last Saturday was National Pigeon Day. There is a gathering of pigeon lovers who extol the wonders and glories of pigeons. I could only stay for a little while, but for the brief time I was there I never saw an actual pigeon! How ironic that there would not be a pigeon at this ceremony, the park is filled with them. There was, however, a man in a pigeon costume. His name is Amos Latteier. He was amusing. You’ll see him in the lower left hand corner of my drawing. He’s the one with the clawed feet and silver leotard with fabric feathers on it. He has large plastic eyes on the sides of the leotard head and a large beak attached to the head as well.
I’m cheating and adding a second drawing of some pigeons because I don’t feel right about not having a pigeon in the drawing for National Pigeon Day.
The group was small, but dedicated. They sang songs, “Coo, coo,coo,” and had a puppet show and generally paid homage to the feral pigeon. What can I tell you, when I heard about this gathering I had to see it with my own eyes!
COO, COO!
A few years back, I had the opportunity to get up close and personal with a couple of (very large) horses. I mainly did a lot of shooting that day as their handler had them trotting, galloping and doing all kinds of things. But as I was looking through the photos recently, I found a few drawings that I did that day. Here are a couple.
Despina Georgiadis©2009
Here is a drawing by Greg Betza of his son…who turned 1 this week! He’s just about to grow out of that chair… 
A trip to Paris is never short of wonder. There’s no other place like it, the shops, the history, the food, THE ART! Here’s a drawing I made in the Musee National Picasso during a trip abroad traveling with my associates at 1482. Spending the day with Picasso’s lifework (in awe, I might add) was truly divine. What an awesome experience ….
Looking forward to sharing some more drawings from abroad next week, enjoy! - Michele
* On a side note, I’d like to plea to the dear thief who stole the sketchbook, PLEASE RETURN IT, the world needs it.
This little drawing was one of the first that prompted Life On Second. I thought it was quaint way back when this was the only machine blocking traffic. It wasn’t quaint for long.—Dominick
“There is nothing like a warm day in the park, It’s magical. People everywhere talking, running, reading or just simply sitting there watching and admiring the beauty of life.” -Eddie Peña
