By Danny Gregory

New Interview

Gill McCowen of Journal Craft Inspiration has published an interview I did with her recently....

Book of the Month!

"An Illustrated Life has been picked by Amazon as one of the seven best books of the month! Yay!...

A nice way to support Barack Obama. Drawings are submitted, auctioned, and the proceeds contributed. A few of us in NY discussed a similar idea but were too disorganized to pull it off. Fortunately these guys did. Some of the...

I read this today and it gave me pause

This Human Season By VERLYN KLINKENBORG On a still day — rain threatening — a tall stem moves in the garden. A goldfinch has landed just below the flower head and is eating the seeds while the stem sways like...

The Saint John's Bible

(click to open a bigger screen size on YouTube) This is quite cool. For the first time since the invention of movable type, some folks are making a fully hand-written illuminated bible. It's being created by a team of...

Reader response video

Most readers have been very nice in indulging my recent post about the US election. A couple of people however had responses that are neatly summed up in this video. (Click here to see it larger on YouTube)....

Telesummited

I just finished my hour-long talk on the business and art of illustrated book publishing for the Writer's Telesummit. It was a nice experience, giving a lecture from my desk, cuppa tea at my elbow, while a hurricane builds...

Viste a Picasso

The Internet Archive has scads of free public domain movies that are really worth browsing through. I came upon this Visite å Picasso from 1950 that is a pocket-sized piece of inspiration....

Strike a Pose

pose for drawing by posemaniacs.com Posemaniacs has zillions of posed, flayed people you can revolve and then draw. It has 30 second poses, hands, all sorts of things. Try it out....

"This is an Experiment. U R part of it."

The 1000 Journals Project is quite intriguing and now there's a movie about it. I like the way this trailer captures much of what we talk about in the EDM group....

Take note!

Mike Rohde shared pages from the notebook he filled at the SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas last week. Awesome!...

Quentin Blake

Elaine sent me this video of a young illustrator meeting his hero, Quentin Blake, who drew the pictures in so many wonderful books, including all of Roald Dahl's. Very inspiring and sweetly awkward....

Morokane

My pal Tommy Kane is back from Morocco with some amazing drawings. Also check out his recent work on cardboard. Oh, and he got mentioned in Juxtapoz again. And I know him! I rock....

Hope Gangloff

I went to see Hope's show in Chelsea three times last month. I love her ball point drawings of her friends and her daily life. For serious inspiration, check out her website and read this cool interview....

Monster Attack

James Kochalka has been posting his son Eli's drawings and cartoons on a special little blog called "Monster Attack". I love looking at kids drawings and Eli's are hilarious and beautiful....

David Macaulay on drawing in Rome

Thanks, Mary Ellen. See it full-size here....

A new leaf

My mum has just put out a new 2008 calendar and notecards in her line of Leafages-- beautiful art made with leaves and calligraphy. Before the holidays arrive, I urge you to visit her site for over 50 designs...

Hear me present

I just discovered that F+W is selling an MP3 version of my presentation at the HOW conference. It was quite fun so check it out and draw while you listen. You can also download a free PDF of the handout...

Sushi platter

SOLD OUT!! Richard Bell is now offering his latest books in a special collection. They are among my favorite possessions and I heartily recommend them as examples of the journaling art at its peak. Check 'em out here...

The Drawing Habit

After an insane amount of time spent at the Atlanta airport (so insane that the media was there to cover it), I have just returned from several days at the 2007 HOW conference. It's the largest conference on design,...

HOW Now, Brown Cow

I'm off to the HOW conference in Atlanta. this afternoon. I 'll be talking about "The Drawing Habit" and meeting lots of cool, creative folks. Maybe I'll see you there!...

Be Happy, Dammit

I was part of a design roundtable on Sirius Radio this week. If you'd like to hear it, go here. I'm in Part 1 of Designers Design a Happy Life....

Me on TV

I taped a series of (brief) segments for the New Morning show on the Hallmark Channel. They are available on the web about midway down the pages linked below. Here are the topics and air date: May 1 “Our...

A gift from Colin Rudd

"It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt....

I'm a Creative Mom

Well, I try to be (it's just that damned missing chromosome that's holding me badk). And to inspire me, I listen to the fantabulous Creative Mom Podcast. It's what I tried and failed to do with my own defunct...

Interview with me

Penelope Dullaghan just published a very nice and comprehensive interview with me on the Illustration Friday site. It has a lot of examples of my work and some never before seen pictures of the castle I call a home....

Ketchup on your drawing

Check it out -- a drawing done entirely with ketchup and fries. Why? Because it's cool. A headsup to everyone making excuses to put off drawing more because they can't find the right pen....

EveryDay Matters in Korean

If you would like a copy of my book, Modeun-nari Sojung-hada, in its beautiful Korean edition, I have located a resource that sells them.....

More time-lapse drawing

I didn't make this. He did. Jack and I did, however, try to make something like it (drawing on white board and filming it in stop motion) and can report that it is an awful lot harder than it looks....

Searle buildings

I built a little gallery after scanning some pages from "Paris Sketchbook" (text by Kaye Webb) and "Paris, Paris" (text by Irwin Shaw), the two books that contain the best building drawings Ronald Searle has done. These books also...

Fishing for ideas

Zina Saunders

A great illustrator I just discovered. Look at her series on Overlooked New Yorkers, too. She has also written and illustrated some great profiles of other NY illustrators and artists, like this one. I love this sort of reportage....

IllustrationMundo

I am working my way through a terrific resource, chock-a-block full of ideas and inspiration: IllustrationMundo.com...

How HOW'll sound

As part of the run-up to the fabulous HOW design conference (largest graphic design conference in the US I'm told) , I have been recorded providing a snippetty preview of the many wonderful things I'll be saying. Sign up...

Kochalka

Last night, Jack, Tom, Butch and I went to the the Giant Robot gallery to see James Kochalka's show. He'd made 150 acrylic 2" by 2" paintings on 3" by 3" paper and they were hung on groups all...

Tribute??

I see that J C Penney is launching a new advertising campaign, created by Saatchi and Saatchi. The theme: "Every day matters". Thanks for the boost!...

New York Reading

I will be doing a reading from "Everyday Matters" ( and "The Creative License too) and talking about drawing on February 1st at 7 PM at McNally Robinson, a lovely bookstore in SoHo. It will be the first time...

EW doesn't say 'Ewww'

Everyday Matters is reviewed in the upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly. They did a little round-up of Comics ( a classification I can live with, I guess) and gave EDM the highest rating of the bunch, an A minus....

HOW Design Conference

I have been invited to speak about drawing at the 2007 HOW Design Conference in Atlanta this June. It promises to be an exciting and stimulating event filled with all sorts of cool creative speakers. Sign up early. I'd...

Jack Tea Tea-shirts

My boy, Jack, has begun drawing and designing the most amazing t-shirts. He has just opened a little store to sell the first design. The quality is surprisingly good, the price very reasonable. Consider how good you'll look in...

Sweeter sweaters

Tim and Joe have new matching hoodie sweaters. Thanks, Deedee!...

Thespian

Jack just completed his triumphant run in the Middle School Play, "Afraid of the Dark". It is the biggest theatrical role he's had so far and he was awesome in his two-tone wig and mustache....

Detour

Tom Kane brought this great online exhibit to my attention. It contains a broad range of example of artists using moleskines including little films that flip through each book. Check it out!...

Olivier Kugler

Every so often I come upon someone who does what I want to do so unbelievably well, I feel like never even trying again. When I encountered Oliver Kugler's work, I fell into a funk that mixed the blackest...

Color me happy

Check out this Lüscher color test which helps predict your issues based on your arrangement of a color palette. It was fairly accurate in assessing me. How well did it plumb your depths?...

The Conundrum

Wise words from the always brilliant James Kochalka. Check out his site, subscribe to his archives, and be happy every day from now on. I did and am....

Kurt and to the point

Kurt Hollomon (teacher, illustrator, designer, mountain climber) has just launched a revamped website with many drawings, maps, and journal pages. His work is very inspiring to me; he's made me rethink the way I lay out pages, how I...

Jean-Jacques Sempé

Read this article. It's nice....

Groceries

Harry Kalmer of Johannesburg invited me (and lots of talented artists including EDMers Michael Nobbs, Nancy Ghandi, and Trevor Romain) to contribute illustrations for his new book, Groceries: 56 Stories Oor Huishopudelike Produkte. (If that title seems a little...

Peeps fan?

Then don't forget to befriend them on MySpace: ThePeepsRock for fresh info, videos, etc....

LitPark

Susan Henderson recently interviewed me for LitPark. The results are posted here. Susan has chatted with a lot of interesting creative folks; I urge you to browse through her archives....

The Peeps play again!

Jack's band rocked harder than ever last night at the Coffee House. They have a video of the show on YouTube already. Check it out!...

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

I really enjoyed watching a DVD of the new documentary "The Devil and Daniel Johnston". It's the story of a West Virginia artist and musician who was incredibly prolific in his youth and then became a cult figure among...

Isca Greenfield-Sanders

I visited her show in Chelsea last week;based on old photos and broken down in to 7" grids, her work has power and timelessness and a color palette which really effected me. Her work is online herebut I recommend...

Jack's new deck #2

Jack just painted his second skateboard, this time a very graphic looking one with a customized Jack of Spades, complete with cigar and handgun. Compare it with last year's rogue's gallery. Awesome!...

Powers of Observation

An extraordinary example of one man's ability to see clearly, retain, and then record his observations. Breathtaking. For more go here....

Amster-dam fine pics

Here are some snaps from our recent trip to Amsterdam....

News of the Week, 7.31

I mention Donavan Freberg's blog in this broadcast. See what I mean here Oh, and my monologue gets cut off and continues in the following video installment......

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Dust to dust

Scott Wade draws in the dust on car's windshields. Check it out here...

Cute? Or Scary?

From the NY Times, 6/23/06: Alexa Kitchen Draws on Life’s Experiences, However Few By LAUREN MECHLING LIKE many artists Alexa Kitchen disavows her early work. She just feels that she has moved past it. “I think it’s pretty good and...

A buncha new snaps I put on Flickr.

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News of the Week 7.21

Our new life in the Tropics. (Click on the video to make it larger)...

News of the Week

AfterBath

A silly little film for those who like animals and hygiene....

Serendipity

It's weird how this issue of HOW magazine has brought so many threads together. There's great article about how to develop your career as an illustrator by one of my original muses, Keri Smith. I love her books, and her...

Me and Sony

I just got a teeny new Sony camera and am making little films and little pictures. I have renewed my interest in flickr, thanks to the fantastic pictures that my buddy D.Price has been sending from his round the...

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....

HOW on newstands

I am very excited by the new issue of How magazine. The cover I designed looks great in print (and actually features my name - a first) and I am pleased with the 8 page article I wrote and...

EDM in paperback

Hyperion will be publishing my book, Everyday Matters, in paperback in January, '06. It will have a nice simplified cover that I painted this Spring....

1001journals.com

Check out the newly relaunched 1001journals.com. They just posted an interview I did with Mindy Carpenter on journaling....

Artella 9: The Journey: Destination and imagination

This lovely magazine had a nice interview with and profile of me in the new issue. You can find out more on the Artella website....

Sunday Road Rage

Check out the new film that Jack and I made. It's teeny here but click the link to see it bigger. Get this video and more at MySpace.com...

Three New Sources of Inspiration

The unbelievably great Mattias Adolfsson here. Tom Kane's work in the first issue of NoTxt magazine here. And if you like Dan Price's drawings, you will be blown away by his photos here....

In MySpace, No One Can Hear You Scream

My pal, Tom Kane, told me I should get a MySpace page, so I have: Check me out! Now what?...

Oh, yeah, I wrote a book

This ad ran this week. I had the odd experience of being art director, illustrator, copywriter, mechanical artists, account executive, and product manager on the ad. Fortunately, my publisher placed and paid for the media. I wonder if it...

Would you like to take a class with me?

I have been invited to teach a workshop at ArtFest 2007, March 28-April1st. It is a big deal that offers classes in bookbinding, assemblage art, visual journaling, jewelry, etc. in Port Townsend, WA. I only rarely consider such things but...

Podcast EDM008: Danny Redux

For those who've never bothered listening to one of the EDM podcasts, this one might actually be worth the bother. My mother offered to help me make this episode a bit more focussed and so she has interviewed me...

EDM007 Podcast

Check out the newest EDM podcast here. It features a guest appearance by Dr. Hazel Kahan, PhD, a psychologist, artist and grandmother. In today's podcast, she reads from her essay, "Just Because You Think You're Not Creative, Doesn't Mean...

Watch Picasso draw!

Read the rest of this entry to see a wonderful video of the master....

New Podcast: Tiki Taka and Jahina

We're cranking them out, folks. A new podcast episode, EDM005, this one featuring my favorite artist, Jack Tea Gregory. It's recorded with my spanking new mic, and features an incredible story of death and wisdom. Oh and a hockey-playing...

Idiot speaks.

I'm an idiot and, in my previous post, put up the wrong link to the newest podcast episode. You can get EDM004 here. Please do. I also bought a fantastic new microphone so future episodes will be crystal-clear....

Podcast EDM004

I have posted a new podcast episode. You can find it here, on the Everyday Matters podcast page. I am doing a fair amount of stock-taking these days and concluding that it matters less what I do and...

Podcast re-cast

Thanks to great suggestions from lots of smart folks,my podcasts will now be found here. and, yes, there's an RSS feed too....

Too much talk.

My podcasts seem to be quite popular. A little too popular. This morning I got an email from Apple where my podcasts are being hosted: Please be aware that you've exceeded 75% of your .Mac data transfer quota for the...

New Podcast episodes EDM 002 & 003

I had a fascinating, marathon chat with Tom Kane last Sunday and spend the week cutting it down to a couple of podcast episodes. His story of discovering and rediscovering drawing and of battling Social Anxiety Disorder is fantastic,...

Radio Nobbs

Michael Nobbs has been busy. I had no sooner finished enjoying the fresh issue of his wee magazine, The Beany, when he announced the first episode of his podcast. Michael is a gentle soul, who draw lovely cups of...

New Podcast episode

Check out the first episode of my new Everyday Matters podcast here. And don't forget to sign up to automatically get future episodes....

Nice

Check out Joyce Cole's work on Moleskinerie.com...

More on Los Penasquitos

Jane LaFazio has posted an article herethat ran in the San Diego Union Tribune about the kids she teaches....

Kane Online

My good pal and drawing buddy, Tom Kane, has finally put his drawings on line and started a blog. His work is fantastically good and inspiring and his blog is a treat. Check it out here and welcome him to...

Everyday Matters now available every day

It seems that Everyday Matters, my second book, is finally freshly available again ... and for less than ten bucks. It went back on press recently and Amazon is now shipping it in 24 hours. If you get it, do...

May the Force be with me

This Thursday, I'll be checking out the workshop at L.A.'s Drawing Club. If you're in town, come on down and draw a Jedi knight....

Marcel van Eeden

The Morning News has an interesting exhibit on show of some great pencil drawings. Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden was born in 1965 in The Hague. His magnum opus is to make a drawing a day based on any...

LA

I'm heading to LA this weekend and will be there for most of March. We are planning to have a sketchcrawl there. Please join in if you'd like. Karen Winters has set up a special group of folks in SoCal;...

The artistry of hidden talents

"For over 20 years, absorbed in my engineering career, I let my musical life die, but I was always reminded of it when I'd encounter the secret creative life of others." Read or listen to this smart installment on "This...

On the Radio

I'll be on Jennifer Louden's show on Martha Stewart Living Radio this Sunday at 11 am EST. It's on Sirius Channel 112. Please call in if you'd like to ask me something at 1-866-675-6675...

Meet the Liquid Pistols!

Jack's band, the Liquid Pistols, played their first gig ever last night. They rocked the house with 'Our House", our boy hammering out a hoof-tapping beat on the drum-skins. (Their set list had originally also included "Let it Be"...

New contest

The very excellent Morning News. org will be holding a daily creative problem solving contest over the next two weeks. I believe it will start Tuesday, January 31st. The prize will be a copy of my new book, The Creative...

New socks

My mum knitted them and I got them in the mail last night. I am wearing them today. Toasty! Thanks, Mum....

Rat Art

This post was inspired by Brenda. Jack has been working on drawing rats for the last few days (he is studying the Bubonic plague in school) and we have been thinking a lot about them. He doesn't want them...

R.Bell on C.License

R.Bell just wrote the most extremely nice thing on his site. Read it while I blush....

Dadhood

A group of us men discussed the ups and downs, ins and outs of being a father. The results were published this morning on The Morning News. Check it out and then be glad you have your own dad....

The (heavily painted) envelope please...

Not that it's terribly important, but if you'd like to nominate a blog you like (hint, hint) for the 2006 Bloggies, you have till January 10th. Do it here. Categories include: American, craft, writing, best kept secret, best overall, etc....

Newly discovered drawings sites

Spend some time with these inspiring sites. But not too much. Save time for drawing. A great animated tour of a ball point sketchbook collaboration:DQ3. Fascinating flight of imagination: Drawings of skeletons of cartoon characters Fantastic illustrations that combine...

Artist's Sketchbook

There's an excerpt from my book,The Creative License, in the upcoming (Feb 06) issue ofArtist's Sketchbook . It's a cool magazine and always full of interesting ideas and examples of peoples' journaling....

From my father

My stepmother just sent me recent work from my dad in Leicestershire. It seems he has moved beyond self-portraits....

Enrique Flores

Crazy good traveling illustrated journalisto. If you haven't yet, check out his work here....

Kiran Ahluwalia

If you'd like to give your iPod a jog, try listening to a radically different type of music. I am really enjoying a new CD by a former bond trader from Toronto of South Asian extraction....

MC #51

Just got the new issue of d.price's Moonlight Chronicles. It's the best drawn one ever.Order a copy if you like good stuff....

NYC Sketchcrawl: Sunday 12/11

To get a head start on the anti-Intelligent Design mob, the NYC Sketchcrawl will kick off nice and early at 11 am this Sunday in the Museum of Natural History. Meet in the North American Mammals hall off the...

Sketchcrawl - the movie

Check out this little Air France film of a couple of folks sketching around Paris. Thanks, Laurent....

Mug me

The MorningNews.Org is selling t-shirts and mugs with my art work. It's a nice way to support the site that supports lots of great writers and artists....

Peanut

Peanut: the last installment....

NYC Sketchcrawl

The next SketchCrawl will be on Sunday, December 11th, (2005), late morningish

New Site Launched

After months of working with Trish and Jacob, the new design for dannygregory.com is up and (hopefully) running. Let me know if you see any glitches or if you like what you find. For a tour, go here....

You've got mail!

Send me an illustrated letter and win a prize!

The Great Christmas Swap

A quick and easy way to make sure you have a wonderful holiday season.

Jack's first days

The new installment of Peanut, up today. Includes discussion of genital mutilation, oral fixation, insomnia, and breasts, breasts, breasts....

Chip Off the Old Blog

My boy, Jack Tea, launched Life in LaGuardia, his own vblog recently. If you;d like afull report on Halloweena nd whey he doesn;ts mil in pictures, cjheck it out.

Birth-day!

The much anticipated climax of Peanut -- my journal of impending fatherhood -- arrives today . However the saga will continue in installments to come. Stay tuned....

Crawling Intrepidly through the Village

A brave group of draw-ers gathered this morning under the Washington Square Arch at 9 am and bravely battled the elements through the morning.

SketchCrawl - the Whether Report

We will be meeting at 0900 under Washington Square Arch at the foot of Fifth Avenue in New York's historic Greenwich Village. I would urge you to bring something to draw on and with and a little folding money to purchase hot libations along the way.

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.

A few notes

Three announcements: 1) A new book I illustrated is out. 2) Next Sketchcrawl will (probably) be on Saturday. 3) Me on Publisher's Weekly.

Mother Nature didn't get the e-mail

When I walked Joe at 8:30, all indicators pointed to 'go' so I threw on a couple of layers, picked up my folding stool and drawing bag and at 9 I was standing under the Washington Square Arch. By this point, not a single cloud was left and the sky was completely, achingly blue. I sat in the park and did a bad drawing, hoping against hope that some one might not have read my cancellation memo and would show up but, no, I was alone.