A plan
I've just marked five years of keeping this blog. The milestone prompted me to think about how much time blogging, corresponding, promoting, writing,self-justifying and so on have absorbed of my free time. It has been a wonderful experience, but...
An attempt to keep a record ...
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Childhood memories
(click images to magnify) When I was a boy, I travelled a great deal. My family wasn't in the Armed or Diplomatic services. I guess they were just adventurers, peripatetic wanderers, refugees, gypsies. These are pages of random memories,...
Update
I have not been posting. But I have been drawing. I began a new larger (8.5" x 11.5") book and committed to only drawing in black and white. Because of the size of the book, I keep it at...
A Personal Journey from 6H to 6B
It may seem hard to believe, upon looking at my current bloated form, but there was a time, years ago, when I went to the gym and lifted weights every day. Seven days a week for over a year,...
School for Evil - exploratory
Toward the end of Fall semester of my sophomore year, I found a small reading room deep within the bowels of my college library. It was called "The Somebody or Other Memorial Hunting and Fishing Library" and was almost...
Brush Twice a Day
Maybe I'm my own worst enemy. Or maybe I just love being a novice. Or maybe I'm bored too easily. But if I gaze back on the course of my passage across the infinite drawing landscape, I look like...
Rama's Portrait Party
Rama Hughes is a fantastic illustrator who has started an interesting new project: The Portrait Party. As he puts it: "In order to play, you and a fellow artist must pair up and draw portraits of one another. you...
LA Watercolor: a demo
Click To Play A demonstration of how I do a pen, ink, and watercolor painting of an LA landscape. Includes time lapse and extensive commentary. It is long, a little large, and may take a minute or two to...
Portrait 694 demonstrated
I made a little film of how I drew and painted this portrait. I hope it's helpful. Click To Play Click To Play...
Fade to grey
One of the major issues with the books I like to make is that publishers hate to pay for 4-color printing. It creates a lot more complexity in the production process and drives up the cost of making the...
Street Folks
People walking down the street are one of the more challenging subjects for me draw. They are always changing shape and size or just disappearing before I can study them long enough to get down on paper. As I'd...
Portrait #603
Kitchen Window
In the morning, as I eat my breakfast and listen to the news, I like to draw the view out the window. I can see the Park and the Judson church and the layers of buildings stretched out to...
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Class with a capital "K"
Yesterday, Jack and I overcame our usual aversion to art classes and joined Patti on 6th Street and Avenue B at a comic drawing class. The teachers were graduates of a comic drawing college in NJ, though one of...
Joe and Tim
A short music video featuring our wiener dog, Joe, and our new wiener dog and Joe's half-brother, Tim. Click on "more" below to watch it....
Trial balloon
A failed but informative experiment in art.
Every Hair Matters: a graphic novella
Recent Adventures and a New Venture
I have had several interesting drawing experiences over the past month and neglected to share them here. The first was soon after I had arrived in Los Angeles and attended a sketchcrawl arranged by the SoCal Drawing Room, a...
A Dawg's Tale
Jack's newest experiments in stop-motion animation.
The world redrawn
Bush draws at summitHouse leaders go on Sketchcrawl through underprivileged D.C. neighborhoods.Donald Trump uncaps his gold fountain pen and draws wetland area where he had proposed new development.
Painting in need of a pedicure
In a tribute to Bob Ross and William Alexander, I shot and narrated a little time-lapsed film of me drawing the view from my balcony. The ultimate drawing isn't very good � I found it quite hard to get...
My perspective on perspective
School's back on and NYU students wander through my neighborhood, clutching new books and pencils. Quite often, I see some of them set up in the park, preparing to draw Washington Square arch. It's a beautiful landmark, and I've...
On Cross Hatching
As you spend more and more time drawing, there usually comes a point when contour drawing isn't enough. You can set down lines that perfectly describe the shapes in front of you but you become interested in giving your...
45 in 45 by 45
Jack and I did a fun exercise this morning. We drew 45 minute-long drawings in 45 minutes, pounding through reams of recycled paper....
Death Row II
The Morning News is carrying another installment from my Death Row Journals with some lovely watercolors and heart-warming stories. Dig in....
Death Row Diaries
My favorite online magazine, the Morning News, ran some of my Death Row drawings today. They're as grim as watercolors get. Check it....
Art supply porn
I didn't even know I had a great aunt Greta (twice removed). But I was happy to take the call from her lawyer, the executor of her estate. Now I am the lucky owner of a 5,000 square foot...
Midpoints
Here is a fun and challenging creative exercise sent to me by Lori in San Francisco: Above are several pairs of objects. The trick is to determine what the midpoint is, whether physically, ideologically, conceptually, or ridiculously,...
Marching to the beat of your own drummer
Jack's been fairly adamant about it since last summer. He wants to learn the drums. I suggested the harmonica, the ukulele, the Jew's harp, but he won't yield. I point out that we have an apartment and neighbors, that...
Bookbinding 101
I have bound many of my journals myself. I learned how at a fantastic place called The Center for Book Arts, here in Manhattan. It was a lifelong dream come true, learning to make my own hard cover books. I...
A record of my exploration into all aspects of drawing, illustrated journaling, creativity, and the inspiring aspects of art. By the author of "Everyday Matters," "The Creative License", and "An Illustrated Life" and other books.