My vote
As important as art and drawing are to me, I have also always been deeply interested and involved with the politics of this country, ever since I was at Princeton, majoring in political science, working for my congressman, and...
Oregon and Back
Jack and I just spent a week driving 1,000 miles or so (a crazy distance for New Yorkers) across Oregon and back to visit our pal, d.price. It was the first time Jack has seen the huge scale of...
What's Up?
I have been lounging around on vacation with my family for a week, reading, drawing, playing gin rummy, and recharging. In a couple of days, Jack and I will be going to Oregon to spend a week in the...
Take a workshop with me ... from anywhere
I have been invited to give various workshops over the years but have often been reluctant because of the traveling involved. I love the idea of sharing ideas and experiences with other writers and artists but my schedule is pretty...
A surprise book: Bad to the Bone
Maybe it's because of my initials, but when I was little, I was determined to become a vet when I grew up. In fact, I got my first job at the age of 11, working for a vet at...
Facing facts
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. William Blake - Auguries of Innocence I have been reading...
An Illustrated Life preview in HOW
The August 08 issue of HOW magazine has a healthy preview of my upcoming book, An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers. You'll find sketchbooks and interviews with seven contributors as well...
A Challenge for the Whole Family
It's the 13th anniversary of Patti's accident. Jack wrote a lovely essay about how that event has effected him since he was just a baby. Here's a video of him reading it at his school's literary festival. Oh, and...
An Illustrated Life Podcast 012:
Melanie Ford Wilson
Melanie is a wonderful illustrator and designer based in Ontario, Canada. I first encountered her work through her blog and was enchanted by the sweetness of her perspective and by the lively way she writes. We had a length...
An Illustrated Life Podcast 011: Seamus Heffernan
Seamus Heffernan is the youngest person in my new book but his work is mature and inspiring. He hand makes his own journals and paints and draws in them with enormous style and beauty. Seamus grew up in New...
An Illustrated Life Podcast 009 & 010:
Roz Stendahl
Many readers are probably familiar with Roz Stendahl and the incredibly useful advice she dispenses as a member of the EDM group. You may also remember that she gave me a special correspondence class in watercoloring a few years...
Blue Skies
From a comment submitted re. my last post. What is creativity? Creativity is the ability to come up with productive, enterprising ideas and work that, at the very least, should have aesthetic, if not monetary value. It's all very...
Why?
Danny, The moment you get up to get your sketchbook to draw, why do you do it? What makes you want to make a sketch your sketchbook? Do you do it for you or does knowing other people will...
Stuff I Like of Late
I've collected yearbooks from flea markets for ages: they give me an opportunity to draw lots of faces framed in similar ways so I can focus on their differences. John Marz had really outdone me by drawings every single...
Wear me
I like to wear t-shirts with drawings on them and have been making them for myself. If you'd like to wear one too, I have posted some designs on this site. I've priced them as cheaply as possible (though...
An Illustrated Life Podcast 008: Paul Soupiset
On this week's episode, I talk to designer and San Antonio native Paul Soupiset. I first came across Paul's work last year when he posted his Lentenblog. I loved his watercolors and the interesting way he was approaching his...
An Illustrated Life Podcast 007: Mark S Fisher
A sketchbook is a place of contemplation. For some people, like me, that contemplation is of the exterior world, and focus exclusively on drawing the things that are in front of me. But for others, contemplation is internal. They...
An Illustrated Life Podcast 006: Rama Hughes
This week's podcast is an interview with LA illustrator and teacher Rama Hughes. Rama's work is clear and confident and his ability to capture likeness is unnerving. A long time sketchbooks keeper, he has a lot of interesting things...
Happy Birthday, Portrait Party!
If you haven't already, join the Portrait Party. It is a fantastic site that was started a year ago by my pal, monstrously talented Rama Hughes. The rules are simple: In order to play, you and a fellow artist...
An Illustrated Life Podcast 005: Kurt D. Hollomon (Part II)
This week's podcast is a continuation of my conversation with Kurt Hollomon. See the notes for last week's episode for more details. Please stay tuned and consider subscribing via RSS or iTunes* to this weekly feature until the book...
An Illustrated Life Podcast 004: Kurt D. Hollomon (Part I)
Time for another in my series of podcast interviews with cool sketchbook keepers. Are you enjoying them? I first encountered Kurt Hollomon's work when Dan Price sent me an outdoor gear catalog from Royal Robbins which Kurt had illustrated....
Meeting Art
I have just arrived at the last page of my office sketchbook, the one I carry to meetings and use to write down my 'ideas'. Flipping through this most recent volume, I came across lots of little drawings. They...
An Illustrated Life podcast 003: Hal Mayforth
On this week's podcast, I interview illustrator Hal Mayforth about crow quills, snowboarding and the Blues. Hal and his work are smart and funny. I am particularly inspired by the travel journals he keeps, documenting the hijinks of his...
An Illustrated Life podcast 002: Cathy Johnson
Cathy (Kate) Johnson has been an inspiration to me for years with her extraordinary nature journals, her beautiful watercolors and her generous willingness to teach many of us in the EDM community via her informative posts and her many...
Paint it blue
A recent email: Hi Danny, Do you think being creative and artistic makes a person more depressed or prone to depression? I read a book about this a long time ago. They actually used Jonathan Winters as an example...
An Illustrated Life: the Podcast
One of the most exciting aspects of working on my upcoming book, "An Illustrated Life: drawing inspiration form the private sketchbooks of artists, illustrators and designers" has been the chance to get in touch with the many artists whose...
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...
Merry
Have a nice set of holidays. See you in 08!...
The Three Stooges
All too often, I see odd things on my walks home. This is one example, seen tonight. I think this may be the person behind it, one Oliver Walker. I mean, could there be others?...
Beyond the finish line
Jack just made this beautiful piece by making a squiggle and then drawing portraits in each section. Last weekend, Jack had his 'audition' at the art high school, doing three drawings under supervision and showing the portfolio of work...
The Mouse Race
In most normal parts of the world, when children graduate from their local middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school), they go onto their local high school. Their school choice is pretty much set by...
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,...
The Giant Sketchbook
Art-alternatives.com sent me the biggest sketchbook I have ever seen. It is almost 700 pp. long, weighs 8 lbs, and is quite spectacular. We made a little film to show you what an effect it had on my family....
Ex Libris Video
Click To Play This is a little video with vague reviews of some new books I've gotten and quite liked. If you'd like to get copies of any of the books I mention in this video and rebutt my...
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...
An Illustrated Life
Amanda Kavanagh's workspace. From my new book, "An Illustrated Life". I apologize for how long it has been since I last wrote any sort of decent blog entry. It’s not that I’ve been sitting around paring my toenails and...
Taking a break
Have a fun summer. See you when I return....
Jack Goes to Camp
Click to Play Last weekend, we all drove up to Vermont (about five hours each way) to take Jack to summer camp. He'll be swimming and whittling and camping and working on the farm for a whole month while...
All together now
When I was in Atlanta, I talked a bit about Sketchcrawls (a group drawing get-together) and had a lot of enthusiastic response. Many people asked me to keep them posted as to when the next one would be ....
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,...
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...
Where the hell..?
I do hate writing this sort of entry. But the fact is, people have been writing to me with a mixture of alarm and disgust, wondering where the hell I've gone and why I haven't posted anything fresh since...
Unpacking the Impressionists
Last night I woke up way too early, at 5 a.m. and ended up watching TV. PBS was broadcasting a program that dramatized the lives of the impressionists. It was like the O.C. except about 19th century French painters....
This is weird. What's gonna happen?
Click to Play Patti hated the way she looked in this movie -- no hair or makeup people on set. So I fixed it with a few hits of LSD. Now she likes it just fine....
Chute
Click to Play Our hounds worship our garbage chute and stand listening to trash fall down it all day. This is a typical scene. One day Tim may actually manage to jump down the chute....
Comic Cavation
My approach to drawing these is a little unorthdox. I whack the page into shapes I find interesting and then just draw one thing sitting in frontof me after another. Sometimes I write down what people are saying, sometimes...
Iron Monkey
Click to Play An early Jack Tea Gregory Kung Fu classic. Featuring Frank as the Victim and Patti Lynn as The WunWomn...
Marooned
Click to Play An adventure movie starring Jack Tea Gregory dug out of the archives for your viewing pleasure....
Portrait #653
Angela's Book Report
While we have are in Arizona for the week, Jack is working on his book report on Mark Mathabane's Kaffir Boy. Meanwhile, Sheila sent me her daughter Angela's report on my book, Everyday Matters. What a fantastic job she...
Portrait #652
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...
Making Today Matter
I drew this comic and then, without thinking, filled in the ballons. Some how it seems right to me but it may just be crap. Whatever. I am far away from home and have been for ten days. I...
Another Crayola spot
Click to play my most recent spot for Crayola Color Wonder. It was directed in Vancouver by my pal, John Mastromonaco. The music was composed by Mark Mothersbaugh who scored some of my favorite movies including "Bottle Rocket", "Rushmore,"...
Portrait 698 demonstrated
If you'd like to see a video I made while I drew this portrait, click here to play it. Click To Play...
Jack Ckomicks
My comic drawing style is still developing. I've given myself three handicaps: I'm drawing small, with a brush, and from my imagination. Despite my reservations about my drawings, I do like the look of these wee moleskine pages filled...
How to avoid having your Creative License revoked.
In the EDM group, a member recently posted the following: " ... I recently read, I forgot where, that gimmicky [drawing] methods, e.g. left hand work, blind contours, upside down, etc, is a not legitimate way to produce a...
Comic experiment
(Enlarged image of comic here) I have always enjoyed reading comics. I started when I was about 7 or 8, with Disney comics and Archie and Tintin and Beano then in puberty progressed on to underground comix by Crumb...
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...
"Magic" shipped
Click To Play - may take a moment or two to load We just finished the first Crayola commercial and it has been pretty well received within the company. It was a little nerve wracking to make because we...
Glowing
My gray adventure continues. Do you know Ben Katchor's work? I love the way the newly scrubbed and illuminated Washington Square Arch glows in the early evening light as the City falls dark. Moby invited us over to his...
Portrait 685
Gosh darned
In this country, and many others, it is very unpopular to not believe in god. Some people are coming out and discussing this but it is the taboo topic of our time. Even here in the Gemorrah called New...
Ratcatchers
Click To Play One remote-controlled robotic rat, two miniature dachshunds. Let 'em rip. A new Gregory family funfest. Original score....
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...
Cigars all 'round
My new niece, Maggie (8 lbs. 9 ozs), arrived yesterday, a couple of weeks ahead of schedule. Her middle name, Kate, used to belong to my grandmother. Maggie and my sister Miranda and my bro-in-law, Chris, are all doing...
VD+1
Yesterday was several memorable things: freezing cold, Valentine's Day and my sister, Miranda's 40th birthday. Today promises to be significant too as Miranda is in the hospital in Brooklyn, well-dilated and about to pop out her first child. We...
Portrait #651
Idol effort
It was very nice to come back to the Arctic tundra formally known as New York City. My family survived my absence though my dogs did need a good bath yesterday. As you may know, I am a big...
This Week in Vancouver
Click To Play A cheery video wrap-up from noted international personality and raconteur, Danny Gregory...
On the set
I was confused before I arrived in Vancouver; whenever I would check the weather report for Vancouver, it would say it was well below zero so I packed all sorts of protective gear in anticipation of Arctic conditions. When...
Mesmerized
We had a very succesful reading the other night. A few dozen folks showed up and I read from EDM and Creative License. It's sort of odd that I have only done this one reading from my books; they...
Portrait #650
This image reminds me of why I love painting with Sumi ink,. The soft grays are also quite consistent and flat so I get nice layers of tone. This scan is a bit pinker than it ought to be...
Poisoned!
I love these pages and looking at them again after a couple of months makes me wish for the soft light of autumn and consider getting back into full glorious color painting again. I survived my insomnia and Joe...
Portrait #647 and a critical response
Dear VulpesFerox: Thanks again for your Amazon review of my book, The Creative License. The first paragraph of your review was very supportive and suggested that you found the sort of encouragement I had intended to offer. However, I...
New book
Ah, the fresh, crisp promise of an untrammeled moleskine! And thus I open Vol. 49 of my ongoing adventures. Our pal, Moby, invited us to a concert at a tiny venue on the Lower East Side. We were smack...
Portrait #648
Jersey City
On the way to work, walking up the West Side drive, one of the loveliest additions to my lovely city. The view of Jersey is is a little dull with all its new glass box construction but it's nice...
Portrait #645
New Year's Eve
We had a fun New Year's Eve dinner with our friends Julie Salamon, Bill Abrams, Brian DePalma and their various kids. We are making this sort of a tradition and we always go to the same restaurant in our...
2006 in retrospect
How I packed a busy year with art experimentation.
Portrait #644
Happy post Xmas and pre-New Yearz! We're back from Mexico. Details to follow....
EDM in Paperback! Wahoo!
We just got the very first brand-spanking new edition of my book, Everyday Matters. It is so damned cute in paperback! It will be officially available on January 9th, just in time for early 2007 Xmas shoppers. Get it...
Portrait #643
Slumberpups
Sometimes I use my journal to do more involved, careful drawings. At other times, I use it to just fill in a few minutes, or to record a little factoid about my day. This spread is a good example....
Portrait 640
Backstage with the Peeps
Jack's band, the Peeps, continues to flourish. They are currently big fans of Tenacious D and discussing playing some of their songs at their next concert. The lineup coninues to vary a little bit and some members are switching...
Portrait 639 and a conundrum
From a recent email exchange with Bill, a reader: Hey Danny: I have a real conundrum. After a few years pursuing other dreams (but still keeping my artistic feet wet). I ramped back up my freelance illustration pursuits. With...
Here and now
One of the pleasures of carrying round a little journal is being less precious about my drawing. Insteads of sitting down in a studio with all of the materials at hand, I can just whip out my book and...
Portrait 638
Outside the Gallery
My office is smack in the middle of the Chelsea art district and I often pop in for an art break at lunch or on the way home from work. There is such an endless variety of interesting things...
Portrait #615 and some advice
Hey Danny, I have loved your stuff since finding your site. I need some counsel from a fellow habitual doodler. Ever since I was a kid I wanted to do stuff with art. I even got my bachelors in...
Happy Birthday, Jerry Lee!
My colors are a little murky here. I love the vermilllion in my paintbox but it is so soft and rich, like lipstick, that it can easily overwhelm my page. I notice the rooftop on this row of buildings...
portrait #614
Sucking and Idling
I like to draw complicated machinery in the streets. If buildings are my landscapes, trucks are my wildlife. I drew this critter hurriedly and from my uptown balcony. Just as I finished, it pulled in its trunk, stowed its...
Portrait #612
Crank up the chroma
I really enjoyed Ric Burns' two-part PBS documentary on Andy Warhol. Andy's color sense was superb and it had an immediate effect on my painting. I love my new paints a lot and I am trying to use my...
Portrait #611
A Fountain of Learning
As my Rapidograph was still empty, I continued drawing with my green fountain pen. I drew this funny old car against the curb, managing to overcome my usual disasters with angled wheels. The ink in my fountain pen is...
Portrait #610
New color
For the past couple of years, I have used a fairly good set of Grumbacher "Deluxe" watercolors in a big plastic box. They have served me well all over the world,and I have grown quite used to their slightly...
Portrait #609
Fleedom's just another word for nothing left to delouse
While we were away, so were our hounds, Joe and Tim. They went to stay with the Globuses (their breeders) and various relatives in Fire Island.The highlight of their vacation was when Joe, a natural hunter, escaped from the...
Portrait #608
Portrait #607
Late Night
I have been quite busy launching some new advertising for Chase over the past couple of months. You may have seen my newest spots on the air for the new Chase Freedom credit card. If not, check 'em out...
Portrait #606
September Buildings
I was appropriately melancholy on the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, thinking about how things have changed and how much damage has been done to us all by those maniacs in the caves of Afghanistan and the conference...
Portrait #605
Drawing a crowd
Tom Kane just came back from several weeks of drawing in the Far East. Everywhere he went, in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and China, he drew big crowds when he drew. People would sit by him for hours,...
Portrait #604
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
Notes to Myself
I've used every sort of journal-book over the past decade, but the one I've returned to the most was the pocket-sized, drawing Moleskine. The paper is a little odd; it has a water resistant treatment designed, I guess, to...
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...
Amsterdam Journal
Here are some pages from the tiny journal I kept recently in Amsterdam. For a more full-blown gallery with larger scans and more legible writing, visit here....
CU Comix
I am taking a hiatus. Here's what's going on in my head(s).
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...
From Today's NY Times
I was interested to read this review in today's NY Times of the exhibit “Teaching America to Draw: Instructional Manuals & Ephemera, 1794 to 1925” which continues through July 29 at the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, Manhattan; (212)...
Like father, like son, kinda
My father has been drawing self portraits every day for ages. He just sent me a day's output, drawn looking down into a mirror lying flat on the table. In the accompanying note, he says: "Doing things in pen is...
The Everyday Matters Resource Center
I have begun to build one of the components of my fantasy, a gathering spot for cool and useful information that can be built by the whole community. See it at everydaymatters.pbwiki.com I have sketched in a few little...
What if:
Some dreams and plans for the perfect online creative community
Year in Japan winners!
Kate Williamson came to our home today to draw the winners of the Year in Japan raffle in person. We were delighted to chat with her about her trip, her work and her life. We had some tea and...
Through a Glass Brightly
On getting reading glasses at 45
A Year in Japan
My favorite new book is A Year in Japan by Kate T. Williamson. It is a fantastic, illustrated journal bulging with lovely, graphic watercolors and sprightly writing. I was so excited by the book that I have acquired some...
Thursday
How to draw
A step-by-step primer to get you doing it.
Slo-Mo
Ways of adding a deep breath to your day from drawing to putting away your iPod.
Too hot not to cool down
Life without drawing is bad. And drawing without life is bad too.
Trial balloon
A failed but informative experiment in art.
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...
Every Hair Matters: a graphic novella
How to draw a How cover
How:Design Ideas at Work is a great magazine, primarily for graphic designers and art directors. It has a lot of practical advice as well as coverage of the leading edges of design, advertising, and art. Recently, I was asked to...
You suck. But enough about you.
Should you care about others' opinions? How much? A lengthy and popular discussion ensues.
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...
I do it 'cause it's trendy.
Why is journaling so popular these days? I take on the topic.
Creeping down the Promenade
The effect of globalization on the landscape and how we draw it.
Home again, home again, clippety clop
God, has it really been three weeks since I last wrote anything here? So much for everyday mattering. Sorry for the absence. I have just come back from Los Angeles to find that the weather in New York is...
Booking to LA
I just started working on my 45th illustrated journal and decided to give myself a treat by binding up a variety of really nice papers into a special book. My new journal is an inch thick slab of 8x12"...
Gran
My grandfather had a small stroke last week and now one of his ankles is paralyzed. After a depressing day or two, he got a splint and is, by all accounts, quite happily mobile again. Gran was a doctor...
Advertising and Its Discontents - Part II: Charity
I like nice. I like sweet. But even more I like raw. I like real. And Ilove Charity Larrison. She and I have been corresponding for a couple of years ago and she always cracks me up and take...
Advertising and Its Discontents - Part I
Above: Notes from a really important meeting I no longer remember. A few years ago, I temporarily detached from the ad teat. It had been a good run. Ad agencies had provided a good steady income, kept my family...
Los Penasquitos
A traffic cone! Jane LaFazio is a mixed media artist in San Diego. She left the world of graphic design and marketing in the late '90's to commit herself full time to her art. I love her philosophy: "What...
Two Sundays
Last Sunday I was the guest on Louden Clear, Jennifer Louden's show on the Martha Stewart Living Network on Sirius 112. It was a great talk, about drawing, meditation, and various aspects of my books and art work. Jennifer...
$urviving
One of the chief obstacles many creative people face is how to cope with the intersection between our creative and our professional lives. Is drawing, painting, photography, music, whittling, just a hobby? Or are we serious about it and...
Fuh-ree-key!
This afternoon, Patti called me at work to tell me, "It's here!". And when I got home, there, sure enough, it was. We immediately started drawing parallels. Jack reminded me that Homer Simpson had found a box of Japanese...
Drawn Together
Himalayan Demon drawn by Jack Tea Gregory on the Rubin Museum Sketchcrawl I had one of those week's from hell -- work in particular had been tough, stressful, and I'd had to work very late several times -- and...
Sketchcrawl New York
Please join us in New York at the Rubin Museum this Friday, the 3rd of February from 7 to 10 pm. If you would like to contribute to the Earthquake fund or get sponsors who support your drawings, there...
Change of scene
When I was drawing with my pal Roz Stendahl, I was amazed to see that certain pages of her journals were randomly pretreated before she turned to them. She might have a fat, wet brush stroke across a spread...
On drawing from photos
An exploration of the effect photographs have on my brain and eyeballs.
TCL: Supplementary Material, IV: Andrea
I first met Andrea Scher through her blog, Superhero Journal. Within days of roaming through her posts, I was hooked. Being hooked meant more than just loving her photos and learning so much from her wisdom and compassion. It...
TCL: Supplementary Material, III: Richard
As readers of this site probably know by now, Richard Bell is an extraordinary nature illustrator who, despite the many miles and water between us, is one of my very best pals and a major influence and teacher. When...
My Conversion
Dear W_____: First of all, thanks for your note and, secondly sorry, for the delay in my response. Your words were quite important and I wanted to give them some time to think of proper response. I have looked...
TCL: Supplementary Material, II: Walton
Walton Ford and I met when we were both sixteen and at the Rhode Island School of Design summer program. He was one of those rare creatures who was born with phenomenal talent. The drawings he did at four...
TCL: Supplementary Material, I: Roz
The first installment of a series on "Stuff that didn't make it into The Creative License"
The Magic Mailbox
Over the past month, I have been so excited to go through the mail. Almost every day, nestled among the Christmas catalogs, there'd be a special envelope or two -- painted, calligraphed, covered with rubber stamps, all responses to...
New Year's Resolution
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world".- Gandhi New Year's Day. It's a good time for stock-taking, for self-appraisal. With each change one makes in oneself, one see more changes yet to be made....
Dibujo en México*
Notes from my trip to Mexico and some thoughts on travel journaling.
Danny's not got a brand new bag
Thursday, 8:10 a.m. Getting ready to leave the house and start the frigid, two-and-a-half-mile walk to my office, I suddenly realize I don't have the bag I use to tote my pens, paints, and my journal. I feel my...
Between the covers
A tour of my brand new book and some early reviews. If you like this site, journaling, drawing, art, etc, you will like this book. If you want to jumps start your creativity, please read on.
Having faith in Brooklyn
A visit to the Beerhorsts, a family of artists living in Brooklyn.
Next
An invitation to the next sketchcrawl and a status report.
Welcome to the New Site
Today we are launching a brand new version of dannygregory.com, full of the many things you've (hopefully) liked in the past and a whole lot more. New content, new ideas and new ways to find your way around. The brilliant...
A Dawg's Tale
Jack's newest experiments in stop-motion animation.
Everyday Matters Member Sites
Group has spawned a new guide to the illustrated blogs of member artists.... site, you can access several dozen beautiful blogs brimming with fresh art. If you'd like to add your own site to the list, please sign up,.
Attention D.Price fans
As you may know, Dan Price, author of Moonlight Chronicles, has a wonderful new book out called “Radical Simplicity: Creating an Authentic Life”.... Secondly, if you are interested in supporting Dan, please share your opinion on the Amazon page for his book Some abusive 'critic' has written a horrible, completely baseless review which has drastically lowered the book's rating.
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.
North Fork Artist of the week
Congratulations to my mum, the leafagist, for being selected for this honor. If you'd like to know more about how she came to art even after she'd become a grandmother, check out this profile. --Later-- Sorry, there's a new...
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....
Happy Old Me
It'll be my birthday in a few days and this year I'm feeling it. My ankle is still a little shaky and it has made me physically unsure. It gets a little better every day but it has made...
Sunday Notes
It's hot and I'd rather be drawing or watching a movie or eating another cupcake so let me just jot down a number of things. Had a rare time drawing on the Bowery this morning with Tom K. It...
Whoa.
Nice....
Please help!
Hello: My new book, The Creative License: Giving yourself permission to be the artist you truly are is now in bound galley form, ready to head off to magazines that will write about and review it pending its official...
Refreshed by Jobs
I am exhausted today. I feel too many wheels spinning, too many things for me to do all of them as well as I'd like, too many things I am too deeply into to walk away from, too many...
'nother new 'nut
Check out the fresh installment of my ongoing story on the Morning News....
Clarification
I've been following a discussion on the Everyday Matters group and it has gotten my wheels turning. The talk has been about the utility of specific drawing assignments suggested by others, whether there's really utility or purpose to everyone...
Technologica Artistica di Roma
So there have been various technical questions from readers who wonder what sort of mountain of gear I have brought with me here to the Holy City to get shit* onto paper and onto this site. It's an important...
New Peanut!
Check out the latest rib-tickling installment. Do it, people. More Rome coming up, once you've done your reading....
Playing it Lento
Two Roman drawings that took a while. The first about an hour, the second, close to it, I was moved by police three times during the first which screwed up my sight lines a bit. The second I'm less...
A conversion at St. Peter's
I'm not the tourist type. My neighborhood in New York is always overrun by people wearing comfortable clothes and cameras clutching guide books and asking "Scusi, where Greenwich Village?" I am always gracious but wish they would walk a...
Doin' the Hood
I have constrained my drawing to my hotel's neighborhood which in Rome is not much of a liability. One could spend the rest of one's life drawing this city the architecture is so rich and organic, the light...
No longer Romin'
Yesterday I managed to throw down a quick drawing at the Trevi fountain before becoming overwhelmed by sun and jetlag. This morning, chipper and well-rested, I packed up my gear to head over to the Vatican. A block from...
Chicago on four hours' sleep
I am posting this from my room in Rome, still fairly jetlagged but eager to get out there tomorrow and start drawing. Meanwhile, here are some journal pages from the last few days while I...
Julie on Julie
My friend Julie Dermansky, a wonderful and powerful artist, is profiled in an article by my friend Julie Salamon. It appears in today's NY Times. For those who don't have access to the paper or membership to its site, I...
Illustration Friday
For those looking for suggestions of things to draw, I urge you to join the Illustration Friday maillist. Each weekend, you'll be sent a topic to inspire you. If you post your work, you can share it with other...
How about those Knicks?
My editor tells me this is the best ever installment of Peanut, my memoir on fatherhood. If you'd care to judge his judgment, learn about my uncle's parrot, my stepfather's haberdashery, and my degree of enthusiasm for organized sports, organized...
The drawing club
The Drawing Club is a lovely organization begun by our pal, Michael Nobbs, and folks like Karen Winters, Loretta Benedetto Marvel and others from the Everyday Matters Yahoo! Group. For a miniscule fee, you can take drawing courses and...
Step-by-Step comics
Nostalgia of the Day - Roz revisited
It's been nearly a year since I visited Roz Stendahl in her perfect little studio. Inspired by my recent barnstorm with Tom and D.Price, I took a fresh re-visit through the journal pages Roz created during my trip ....
New Book of the Day
I did a hundred dog drawings for this cool book but I have no idea how they are going to be used. I guess I'll find out in a couple of months when it comes out....
New 'Nut
The Morning News just launched their total redesign today and there are a number of my drawings salted throughout. There's also a new installment of Peanut with more traditional watercolor drawings on it for those of you who were...
Graphic Novel of the Day
Check out my new graphic novel,The Drawminator, for the latest installment in the dramatic adventures of the daring drawing trio. Go to the link, click on the mini-comic, and then through all five pages of the book, then come...
New York Times of the Day
My illustration on the history of groovy WiIliamsburg is in the Sunday Times, a nice big piece, almost 2/3s of a page in glorious full color....
Geekery of the day
When I was eight, I opened my own public library. I tagged the spine of every book on my shelves with handmade Dewey stickers. Each flyleaf got a book plate: "Ex Libris Danny Gregory". Then I opened the door...
Assignment of the day
It's hot as a bastard and we are all recovering from four performances of Annie Get Your Gun in three days. I have spent the past two mornings in the air-conditioned apartment working on an assignment for The Morning News...
Pile of the Day
The curtain rises on the PS41 Fifth grade production of "Annie Get Your Gun" tomorrow night. Jack has a featured role then appears in virtually every scene as a member of the chorus. It's his first time treading the...
Catch of the day
Joe's second mouse....
Special of the Day
Saturday night dinner at Jerry's on Prince Street. A chance to draw on the paper tablecloth with my squishy Faber-Castell PITT artist pen, a B tip. The coloring comes from fingers dipped in our dinners. A little ochre-toned vinaigrette...
Decision of the day
I have read 448 pages of Wally Lamb's " I know This Much is True" and I hate it and am not going to waste time on another single one. Sorry, Oprah. Sorry, trees....
Trevor's visit
Trevor Romain came to town last week and wrote a nice bit about Patti on his blog today. Thanks, Trev....
Come on down
If you happen to be at the Book Expo in NY on Friday, come and say hi at the F+W Publications booth. Eric Maisel and I will be signing copies of A Writer's Paris at 11:30 - 12:30 and...
New 'nut
The Morning News is carrying the most recent installment of Peanut today (a day late for Memorial Day). It's a fairly amusing romp through a pelvic exam and, slightly less pleasant, an extended cruise with my extended family. New...
Surprises
My week has been full of new and unexpected experiences, some pleasant, some a drag. First Patti managed to fall and fracture her leg in a couple of places and, though it's not too dire, she's been sidelined with...
Depositing myself
First off, Patti tells me that I have neglected to say what brand my commercials were for (and many readers have posed the same question) so let me clarify that. I have been helping to relaunch what is now...
On the air
If you'd like, look for my new campaign in the following networks timeslots this week ( all times are EST) MAY16 CBS MON 8-9P 30 RAYMOND CLIP SHOW MAY16 CBS MON 10-11P 30 CSI MIAMI MAY17 ABC TUE 10-11P 60...
Where the hell have I been?
It has been far too long since I have had the time and energy and inspiration to write anything here. I'll try and jot down some of the reasons here: WORK: The first wave of my ad campaign broke on...
Newest Peanut
Check out the latest installment of my memoir on The Morning News....
Avuncular advice
hey danny just a (not so quick) question for ya we're in the middle of this whole looking for colleges and setting up visits thing and it is absolutely overwhelming. i was told by an admissions dean to find...
More peanut
Read the next installment of my new book here....
Trevor forever
Lately I have been spending time with one of the loveliest, most humane blogs around. Trevor Romain just began his journal with the new year but it is already a rich repository of drawings and stories. Trevor is an...
Poor Joe
On Saturday, we took Joe for blood tests and a physical in anticipation of his castration operation. I was a little ambivalent; he is such a beautiful creature and it seemed like it might be nice to breed him...
Sunday in excrutiating detail
Time for another self-indulgent, all-about-me entry. Midnight to 12:30: Watched a freakishly excellent movie called Five Obstructions (in Danish: De Fem Benspnd). I usually don't have the patience for Lars von Trier, but this film kicked ass. Jrgen Leth...
When You Wish Upon A Star
Dave and his wife Cherie work at the Disney Animation Studios in Burbank and they invited me to come and check it out and take a tour. Dave is working on Chicken Little which will come out at Thanksgiving...
Lunch Hour Comix
Robert Ullman, a Virginia illustrator, set himself a worthwhile challenge: to regularly draw a comic diary page entirely during his lunch hour. The results are varied I like his drawing style and many of his observations are small...
Meet Peanut
I have written a new book which I'd like you to share with me for free. The catch is that it'll be served up in installments by the Morning News. You can read the first serving today here. Future...
Left Coast Digs
Happy 152nd birthday, Vinnie!
Van Gogh saw more in the dark than most people see in the light of day. He saw details, nuances, beauty in a single night sky. And he was able to describe what he saw to make it come...
All I did on Tuesday
Seeing the forest, oh, and the trees
In The Art Spirit, my pal Bob Henri talks about the importance of that original intention which sparks one to make a drawing or a painting. What caught my interest? And, all critically, how do I hold on to that...
Easter with the Unressurected
A few years ago, I saw a documentary about the Hollywood Forever cemetery. It is the final resting place of all sorts of movie illuminati, from Rudolph Valentino to Mel Blanc, but after a century was rundown and on...
Rwandan Easter
As I mentioned last year, my friend Julie Dermansky celebrates Easter each year with a drawing marathon. This year she is far away, having abandoned her tornado-struck farm and headed to Africa. She sends us pictures along the way...
The Art of LA
My first proper day of in LA and I devoted it to art. I awoke early and went out to draw in the little park across the way. There I wrote: "I find this tree quite sexy. Its limbs...
The Art Spirit
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself." Robert Henri I have always been...
Go hang yourself
A prankster artist has been hanging his own work in many of New York's museums. Now he's famous. Maybe it's something we should all try. For more details on how and why, check out wooster collective....
Feeling a little la la
I have been holding on to my jet lag quite well while here in LA; getting up early and going to sleep most nights before ten. Still my internal clock has slowly drifted west a little more each day;...
Collaboration isn't just for the French
I am writing this on a flight to Los Angeles where we are going to shoot the first five commercials for the campaign I began last summer. It was July 27th when I stood at a urinal on 22nd...
A good thing
From my visit to Martha's trial last year. The Morning News editors were advised by their lawyers not to run it in my story. I'm sort of glad as it's a fairly shitty drawing done in the height of...
Back soonish
I have been a poor poster of late. I'll soon be back from vacation and will try to write more often. Sorry. Thanks.Your pal, Danny...
Chillin' with Dylan
Last week, I was hit by a sniffling cold midday. I spent the last few hours of the workday back at home, in bed with tea and Bob Dylan's new memoir. By the next morning, I'd bounced back and...
Approved!
I decided to make my struggle to design this cover less public than last time. I had all sorts of slick and contrived ideas but in the end decided to keep it simple. This is based on a drawing...
Aliens
Last night we went to a preview for James Cameron's new movie, Aliens of the Deep. It was pretty spectacular in 3-D Imax, all shot on the bottom of the ocean with extraordinary critters and lunar landscapes. Cameron chatted...
Yesss
Dear Customer Your service request has been completed and your product is on its way. Please allow two business days for delivery. Apple...
They pull me back in
It's a year and a half since I left my last job, left meetings, left acount executives, left downsizing, left that tight feeling between my shoulderblades. For the next year, I managed to do a lot of drawing and travelling....
Box Doodle project
Check it out (Thanks. Tom)....
Aaargh!
After twenty years of using macs, I have finally experienced the ultimate disaster, a massive meltdown of my drive directory. Last night I had to reformat my hard drive, reducing it back to the zeroes. This follows a few days...
A new thing
While I have gone on and off moleskines over the years, I had to snap this one up. A journal preprinted with little frames, perfect for sketching out little storyboards or page layouts or comic books or whatever. All...
More blood
My uncle, Ian, is a great potter and sculptor. In the early 1960s, he was a British film star and had a pop song on the charts. You can read about him and see some work at his website. And,...
like father, like son
A few days ago, this drawing arrived from my stepmother, Sue. It was drawn by my father when I was about three, around the time my parents were divorced. Many of these objects are things of my mum's. I...
New work from my favorite artist
As part of our ongoing year-end campaign to freshen up the Gregory compound, we tackled Jack's room last weekend. We spend most of the time on his huge library, reorganized his board games, and sifted through the occasional piles...
Early morning habits
Too long ago, I went to the gym every day. At seven a.m., the doors opened and a small group of us would shamble in and begin lifting weights. I had a little notebook in which I charted my...
One down
I was going to write some big 'how far we've come' entry but I'll just leave it at this: One year ago today I wrote my first entry on this blog. I have thought of chucking it a hundred...
'zine machine
Serious congrats to my buddy, d.price. For the second year in a row, his fantastic mag, Moonlight Chronicles, was among the nominees by Utne Reader for best 'zine in the General Excellence category. Only this year, he won!! It's...
Books I can remember reading this year
Drawing Inspiration Back To The Slaughterhouse - Ronald Searle Carnet De Voyage - Craig Thompson. David Gentlemans Britain David Gentlemans Coastline David Gentlemans India...
Final '04 resolution completed
Kinky
Far too active to draw! This week, we had a visitor. Joe's twin, Kinky, stayed with us for a couple of days and our house became a one-ring circus. While the two pups are twins, they're clearly fraternal; rather...
Cover coverage
Whoa! Opinions about my cover designs have flooded in and they were fantastically useful. Covers are tough. They have to evoke the book and also jump off the shelf. My friend Paul who designs a lot of wonderful covers (including...
Re-Cover
We are designing a new cover for the paperback edition of Everyday Matters and I would appreciate your input. Post a comment on which of the five designs you prefer and, if you are the owner of the hard-cover...
Under the Influence
Before Tom and I set out to draw yesterday, we spent some time looking through my library. We leafed through books by David Gentleman, Tony Foster, Muriel Foster, Hannah Hinchman and afew others. Though we are both pretty much...
Merry Chrushmas
I shot this picture as I drove down the Long Island Expressway at the beginning of the year. A truck moving a great pile of dead cars heading for the scrap yard with someone's discarded Xmas tree locked inside....
Artist's Sketchbook II
This rather nice magazine has an article about me in its February, 2005 issue now on newstands. Also a piece by Dan Price on drawing. You can download a rough PDF of the article but the issue is worth...
Ronald Searle
Here are a couple of drawings from Ronald Searle's 1950 Paris Sketchbook. It's a fantastic book, written by his then-wife Kaye Webb, and if read carefully, gives an insight into the drawing life. I have loved Searle's drawings since...
French Technique
For those wondering how I did what I did in Paris: I drew on heavy bond either with a Rapidoliner (.25 and .50) or an Art (fountain) Pen . I then pulled out a Niji waterbrush loaded with black...
The desk clearing moment
Les toits de Paris remind me of La Bohme. Whenever I am working wildly on many things, I let everything else in my workspace run amuck. It's an ordered chaos and I know where things are in the debris....
J'aime bien Paris
We had a terrific visit to Paris over Thanksgiving. We arrived (via Frankfurt) on Thursday morning and spent the day in a bit of a jet-lagged fog (I can't sleep on planes) but did quite a lot of drawing....
bientt
Dr. Eric Maisel is a psychotherapist who works exclusively with artists and has written many terrific books like The Creativity Book, Staying Sane in the Arts, Fearless Creating, Deep Writing, A Life in the Arts and other inspiring guides...
Joe report: Still cute
Sketch Crawl Survivor II
Tom Kane just sent me his lovely drawings from our odyssey. As you can see, he fills every inch of the page and is a committed cross hatcher (R.Crumb said, " drawing is just an excuse to crosshatch"). He draws...
Sketch Crawl Survivor
Tom Kane and I met up just after 8 am at the L train station and travelled into WiIliamsburg, Brooklyn. The day was cold and intermittently rainy but we were fairly well provisioned though Tom was much impressed by my...
Second Base
Two spreads from Tom Kane's journals recording models he was considering in casting his ads for Steve Madden shoes. I realize I haven't said much about the project that has consumed much of my time since Spring: writing my...
Mo' Joe
I am getting used to drawing our new hound, Joe, a little bit each day. He is a lovely little guy, very affectionate and well-mannered, but I can only draw him when he naps. With time, I'll get him...
Me bad
Check this out and, if you're a Yank, think about whether to submit to it. At first, I really liked it but now I'm not so sure....
Sketch Crawl warm-up
Think of it as a 10K before the marathon. Tom and I decided to do a half day of drawing to road test our kits and loosen up our drawing muscles before the big SketchCrawl next Sunday. We met...
Hilarious!
Amazon has just announced its top ten humor books for the year. America by Jon Stewart is #1, The Best of McsSweeneys is #2. The complete New Yorker Cartoons is #3. David Sedaris is #10, one notch behind my new...
sketchcrawl.com
Enrico, the sketch crawl guy, is starting a global movement. On November 21st, he invites us all to go out and do a day long drawing odyssey. I think I shall. He has started a cool website to promote...
A favor
If wouldn't looked at my new book and didn't find it utterly repellent, would you mind writing a review of some sort on its Amazon page? The first person who did so wrote some nice thoughts and then dinged me...
Paper skies
The sky is white today. I walk under it some twenty blocks one way, then back, looking up most of the way. Fifth Avenue is lined with 19th century buildings that are generic at street level, each defined by...
Draw together
I just came across this little site from GE, of all people. The idea is to encourage people to draw collaboratively via the Web. I started a drawing and invited some pals to join me. I'll report on what if...
Level Orange
I get daily comment spam. To combat it, I have upgraded to the new version of Moveable Type. I can and now will require that commenters register. It should only take a moment and, once you are registered, you will...
To tell the truth
Dear Colleen: Thanks for the thanks. I wanted to respond publicly to your comment that: One of the main reasons I do not have a blog of my own is that I secretly wonder if I would censor myself...
Not in the mood
I've just been reading the journalier blogs I go to weekly or so: Andrea's and Keri's and Penelope's and Richard's and I'm not into it. I feel crabby and over-caffeinated. I have been less entranced by these sorts of...
Treasure trove
Jane Humphrey just told me about this site. Dr. Andrew Saul is posting images from his dad's illustrated journals created from WWII up till his death. Warren E. Saul (1921-1996) was a patent illustrator for Kodak and had range...
Live blogging
I am writing this on a news break on The Keith Larson Show on WBT in Charlotte. We are talking filmstrips....
Hiatus
The western view from my southern balcony. Drawn at the end of a hard day. It's about seven years since I started drawing in earnest. In the first couple of years. I went through periods of immense enthusiasm and...
Sketch Crawl
Thanks to Ted Mills for pointing this out to me....
Ghosting
Over the next couple of weeks, my drawings and doodles will be intermittently appearing on the Guild of Ghost Writers while Dem takes a break. Today is the first time....
Heavens!
Give your eyeballs a treat and remember we are all connected....
Idol speculation
I was about fifteen and my idol was Eric Drooker. He was in the eleventh grade, the first boy in school to have an earring, to wear black Danskins and clogs and eyeliner and modeled himself on David Bowie....
Notes from a conversation with Julie Dermansky III
Julie Dermansky: from the Lumis Collection in the basement of the Robinson science center, Binghamton, NY JULIE: My work isn't really done until it's out in the world. My uncle is an artist and told me, never sell anything for...
More interviews
I had a hectic day of interviews: three in one afternoon. This weekend I shall be on NPR's To the best of our knowledge. I was live on Afternoon magazine on WILL-AM and WBAA in Indiana recorded an interview that...
Notes from a conversation with Julie Dermansky II
Julie Dermansky: Steel Gate at her studio in Deposit, New York JULIE: I was at the art students league taking drawing and this teacher came behind me and I was making a mess like I do and he said "Ah,...
Notes from a conversation with Julie Dermansky I
Julie Dermansky: Journal page - European monumental architecture Julie is one of my favorite artists and she has always been a huge source of inspiration and encouragement to me. She is so committed to making art and has a lot...
Joe
Here's the newest member of our family. He's a 14 week old, miniature long-haired dachshund and Jack's constant companion. After three days, we all love him a lot. If he ever slows down, I shall try to draw him....
50 Books competition
Paul Sahre, the talented designer of my first book, tells me that Hello World: a life in ham radio has been selected as one of the best books of the year in the "50 books/50 Covers of 2003 competition....
Cleveland
Tom Feran wrote a nice column about my book on the front page of the Arts section of today's Cleveland Plain Dealer. It's cool to get coverage in Patti's home town. Check it....
Me and the Beeb
If you have any interest in hearing a fairly intellectual interview with me that aired on the BBC, check it out....
Leg Three, II
"Mi Casa"When I was in San Francisco, I stayed in a little guest house called "Balmy Casa" . It was a lovely apartment that even came with two bikes to rise up and down (puff) the hills of the...
A thousand words
Earlier this summer, a satirical magazine called Yankee Pot Roast asked me to to discuss whether a picture is worth a thousand words. They posted my reply when I was away. Check it out....
Leg Three, I
Last stop on my cross-country trip: the Mission district of San Francisco to visit my e-pal, Andrea Scher. If not for Andrea, this blog wouldn't exist. Last December, she convinced me that I could and should start a blog...
Recent opinions
"...Funny and wise..." - Deseret News "...chuckles galore..." - U.S. News & World Report "...oddly charming." - Chicago Sun Times...
If you own a television...
...you can see me on it on Tuesday the 14th on CNN Live Today at around 10:30 am. And if you own a radio, you can hear me on it at 8:30 (EST) tomorrow morning on Albrecht in the...
September 11, 2004
Last night I had the most extraordinary experience. As the sun set magnificently, the memorial next to Ground Zero was illuminated two sets of klieg lights aimed at the clouds. They're illuminated on each anniversary of 9/11 from...
Leg Two, IV
The highlight of my visits to Oregon is always staying in Dan's place, Indian River Ranch. Over the past decade or so, he has lived on a meadow on a river bank and had erected various sorts of residences...
Soft-spoken
A recent interview I did aired from Boston's WBUR today. Listen to it (in Real Audio) by clicking here:...
Leg Two, III
Last winter, Dan Price's son, Shane, volunteered to make a sculpture of his school's mascot. Dan offered to help. Before long, the project has mushroomed, the eagle was seven feet tall and, while Shane put in a couple of...
Under 100
Change Your Underwear Twice a Week just broke into the top 100 of Amazon's best seller list and #8 on the history list, the best any of my book's has ever done, by far. If you'd like to help...
Not Florida
New York is having a wet and tumultuous summer but we haven't been hit by hurricanes, thank God. I took this photo from my balcony last night and I just can't get over it....
Leg Two, II
Joseph has an interesting blend of residents. There are cowboys and construction workers like you'd expect in a small Western town. There are also several bronze foundries so a healthy art community has sprung up. There are aging hippies...
Change Your Underwear Twice a Week
I was on NPR's Morning Edition today. If you'd like to hear more about my new book and excerpts from some filmstrips, listen to my interview with Renee Montagne on-line....
Leg Two, Part I
Upon arriving in Portland, I began the longest drive of my life, across Oregon. I am a native NYer and don't drive much so tackling the endless, dead straight roads of the West was a new and somewhat daunting...
Leg One IV
Here are a few more souvenirs from Minneapolis. I so envy Roz her neat and orderly studio. What you don't see are the big computer/scanner/printer end of her studio as well as a second room crammed with journals, research...
Leg One, III
After two zoos, we decided to check out some cadavers. I love natural history museums and Minneapolis's is a pip the specimens were posed in wonderful dioramas with wax leaves and meticulous details. I enjoyed standing close so...
RNC in NYC II
If you missed the carnival and the passion of delegates and protesters and would like to see what I saw, visit this special gallery of photos I've taken around town this week. Warning: liberal bias....
Cross Country. Leg One. Part II.
Our drawing trip began at a hilarious junk store called Axman filled with my favorite sort of drawing subject - intricate gizmos. I couldn't make up my mind what to tackle until I saw Roz and her mini paint...
EDM West
Karen Winters wrote to tell me that I missed a picnic of journalistas in LA. She reports: "There were only 9 of us (several others wanted to come but were getting married or having babies or on vacation.) "We...
Cross Country. Leg One. Part I.
I have just returned from a cross country trip to visit some of my journaling friends. My first stop was in Minneapolis where I spent several days with Roz Stendahl whom I first encountered through the 45 wonderful journals...
On the Radio
I have begun doing interviews to tell people about my new book, Change Your Underwear Twice a Week: A week ago, I was interviewed by Reader's Digest - they're planning a feature on the book for November. Last Thursday,...
Summer in the City
I have returned to the city I laughingly call my home to find the mercury, humidity, and political instability have soared. Along with uncounted hundreds of thousands of like-minded lefty pinkos I marched under the Sunday sun to welcome...
Greatest Hits(?)
I am off on an extended cross-country trip. I am going to visit my pals, Roz in Minnesota, d.price in Oregon, and Andrea in San Francisco and shall return on the 26th or so. In the interim, I thought...
Everyday Matters Picnic I
The weather was threatening but the turnout was great. Dozens of folks showed up with their journals and watercolor sets and offerings for the potluck lunch. We all shared our work, swapped tips on great books, websites, watercolors, pens...
Print & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll
Wow. I'd no idea that the Print magazine I worked on had caused such an uproar. Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and Print? : :" href="http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/002005.html">: : Speak Up > Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and Print?...
Meet Prash
Every so often I see work that makes me say, "Well, yes, that's what I'm trying to do but some thing seems to have interfered between my brain and the page." Prashant's journals always make me feel that way....
More Outrage
Black Book magazine, a very groovy entertainment, fashion and art magazine just hit the newstands with its new Fall Arts issue. Damien Hirst, David Bailey, Christo, Norman Mailer, John Updike, Rick Moody, Francesco Clemente, and zillions of others including...
Artist's Sketchbook
This magazine always has a few good tips and ideas for illustrated journal keepers. The new issue features a decent piece on my pal, d.price. It also contains the announcement that they will now be publishing six times a...
A brush with war
In April, 2003, New York Artist Steve Mumford travelled on his own to Iraq and began recording his experiences an impressions in words and in watercolor and ink wash drawings. He had returned several times since, riding on patrol...
Bells and whistles
Richard Bell has finally put together a mailing list for people who'd like to be updated on his wonderful Nature Diary. As I've raved often before, he draws so well, his observations are so keen and his sensibility so...
Wolf II
I rant and then I recant. It's certainly nice to just say, "Well, the info they based the alert upon is obsolete and we're safe," but I still have a nagging feeling. I don't think I'd feel better if there...
Wolf!!!
Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand
London calling, now don't look at us, All that phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust. London calling, see we ain't got no swing, 'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing... This will be an admittedly biased and flawed...
I am
I live on the earth. I am an earthling. I eat meat and vegetables. I am an omnivore. I have a wife. I am a husband. I have a son. I am a dad. I scratch my ass. I'm...
Holy Roller Novocaine
Most mornings, after breakfast but before we head out for the day, Jack and I flip on our amps, grab our axes and fire it up. One of us plays rhythm, a standard 12-bar blues (E,A,B7) and the other...
If on a summers vacation
In today's issue of my favorite online magazine the entire staff of The Morning News have contributed stories of our most miserable summer vacation experiences. My 189 words chronicle the time Patti and I narrowly escaped gruesome deaths and...
Flocking together
My new pen of choice is the Rotring Art pen, and as I've discussed before, I have been filling it with India Ink because it's waterproof. Richard, who first turned me onto the pen, was a little leery of...
Fishing in Manhattan
It's late and I'm exhausted from a long day which culminated in something a little tedious but exciting: revising a new piece I've done for the Op-Ed page of the NY Times. It'll run this Sunday. If you'd like...
Bagging it
Jack takes a lunch box to school but when he goes to summer day camp, his carrot sticks, cookie and sandwiches (unvaryingly: one salami, one PB&J), travel along in a brown paper bag. At one point, maybe it was...
Summer Time Blues II
After my freshman year, I got a job working for my congressman, the Hon. Fred Richmond. Fred had been arrested a couple of years before for soliciting a young boy but, in a style that would seem very out...
Mon Cherry Amor
At Last!
I just received my first copy of my new book! It looks great and I am so excited to finally have it in hand. Well, once Jack Tea is done with his turn....
Inklinations
The only downside to my vacation (and this will give you an indication of what a hopeless nerd I am) were a few pen problems. First of all, though we packed virtually everything in the house into our car...
Chilling in the sun
We've had many more exotic holidays: Paris, Florence, Sudan, Baghdad, Cleveland, but this year we sunbathed on the banks of the mainstream. We packed up board games, playing cards, fat novels, guitars, bathing costumes, and all drove to the...
Jerusalem Journal revisited
My favorite online magazine, the Morning News, has taken my Jerusalem Journal and given it new life. I did some revisions to the text, the images have been rescanned, cleaned up and polished and the whole thing looks like...
Bunnies or Jesus
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. Woodrow Wilson One of the...
Fahrenheit 9/11
It's overstated. It's flawed. It's suspect at times. It's angry and maybe mean spirited. It's hilarious. It's courageous. It's very important. It's essentially, horrifyingly true. See it. Then make others see it....
Desk Job
It's taken me months to get around to cleaning my desk. I've just chucked things into the back of it, and they've accumulated in tectonic layers. I have a general sense where important things are and can root around...
Will work for food
People: I would love to solicit your advice. Over the past six months or so, I've had the good fortune to be invited to do illustrated journal pieces for the NY Times, Print magazine, Black Book, Book Slut, a...
By George
While I was drawing this, after dropping Jack off at school and sitting under the Washington Arch with its two newly restored statues of the general/president/slave owner/lumberjack, I heard something soft land on the ground ahead. Then, through the...
Bell weather
I just returned from a stay at Richard Bell's little house in Yorkshire. Despite the lousy weather, we drew and painted every day, touring York and the surrounding little villages, wandering in the countryside, then coming home for great...
No Miles!
One final thing, just because it seems like fun: Robot Johnny and Keri have both listed the first 15 songs randomly generated by their MP3 players (hoping it won't be too embarrassing) so I am following suit:...
Old York
I shall be visiting my pal, Richard Bell, in Yorkshire for a few days. Back at you on Tuesday or so. (This lovely watercolor is from Richard's site; do drop by and see how a real pro does it)....
Homeless Journal continued
The Homeless Journal I started last month has been expanded to include other people and their stories. Check it out on The Morning News, my favorite online magazine...
616
On June 16, 1986, I walked through this door and met the loveliest girl in the world. On June 16, 1991, I walked through it again and married her. Thank you, PL, for putting up with me ever since....
Jerusalem Journal VI
This is the last installment of my Jerusalem Journal; I was there for a week and the discussions that have gone on here online have extended that experience for another week. However, having gone to the trouble of keeping the...
Jerusalem Journal V
The colors, the light, the vegetation, and the temperature remind me a lot of our visit to Florence. All the buildings in Jerusalem must be built from local stone, so the landscape is fairly uninterruptedly sandy; occasionally there are...
Jerusalem Journal - Sidebar discussion
From: Diane To: Danny Hi Danny I know you don't want inflamed responses to your harsh take on Israel, but I just can't help myself. Your dismissive comments cut me to the heart. If someone you admired said they thought...
Jello Mold
We are precisely two months away from the big New York Journaler's picnic. Plenty of time to get out your favorite macaroni salad recipes and start ironing those gingham table cloths. My associates and I shall be rallying on...
Jerusalem Journal IV
Israeli supermarkets have certainly changed over the past decade when they were poorly lit and stocked; the merchandise seemed a bit suspect, underfresh or overfrozen; and generally third world. Now the selection is almost as vast as my local...
Jerusalem Journal III
The Damascus Gate: I made my way out of the tourist section and into the Palestinian part: fruit and veg stands with old women selling piles of grape leaves, brown baby chicks, radishes; butcher shops with tales full of...
Most likely to be unlikely
Somewhat embarrassingly, my former high school has conferred up on me the dubious distinction of being the alumnus of the month. If you always wanted to know more about my French teacher's escape from the Nazis, my Engels study...
Jerusalem Journal II
The Old City is fairly sparsely populated by tourists, but the shop keepers still caw and claw at every passerby. They flog t-shirts that say obscene things in Hebrew, hookahs, synthetic Oriental rugs and 3-D postcards of Jesus on...
Jerusalem Journal I
I have just returned from a few days in Jerusalem and over the next week I shall doll up and dole out the journal I kept there. As my writing can be a little tough to read, I have transcribed...
So What Do You Do, Danny Gregory?
A new interview with me just went up on the mediabistro.com site, conducted by Chris Gage....
Chinatown and beyond
My last post prompted a few questions and thoughts: The Chinatown drawing is 9x11" drawn with .25 Rapidoliner and then colored with Grumbacher watercolors and waterbrushes. I drew just what was there and fortunately, the buses, sat around...
Mini-break
Thanks to every one who asked after me recently; I am pretty busy with some important projects these days so I shall be reducing the pace of fresh updates to the blog. I shall send out an announcement when...
Just shoot me
For many reasons, I am a big advocate of drawing in one's journal. It is a meditative practice. It helps one to deepen one's appreciation and count one's blessings. It is a good impetus to draw often. It looks...
Homeless Journal #1
Curtis has been living on the street for over a year. He tells me he can do any sort of work if he's just given instructions and left to do the job. He doesn't like it when people hover...
Doings
I have been off on various adventure-like things over the past week. I spent two days with my friend, Julie Dermansky. She lives on a former farm on fifty acres in Upstate New York. The barn is now a...
The Art of War
Where's Johnny Got his Gun? Where's All Quiet on the Western Front? Where's Catch 22? A Farewell to Arms and For whom the Bell Tolls? From Here to Eternity? The Naked and the Dead? Where's Guernica? Where's Alice's Restaurant? Where's...
A new old friend
Sunday afternoon, I was walking through Astor Place when I saw a man in a familiar position, hunched over a big old moleskine, a pen twitching between his fingers. I knew, from across the road, that he was drawing...
Miles ahead
I've been reading about jazz recently, specifically about Miles and his seminal album, Kind of Blue. Miles was intensely committed to what he did, brave in a way I wonder if I can ever be. He seemed to live...
John Hancock
When you're designing a book that will be entirely handwritten, you have two choices. You can be as patient as Frederick Franck and get a bunch of pens and set to work, writer's cramp be damned. If you are...
Idol worship
She's so good she drives me crazy....
This will go on your permanent record
I just returned from a few days in South Florida as the guest of the Miami Ad School. I'd been invited to teach students about illustrated journaling and was frankly a little ambivalent. It seemed a bit weird to...
Ten thousand things to draw
Content of kitchen cabinet, fridge, bedside table, medicine cabinet All my shoes, clothes Covers of ten favorite CDs, books Every significant front door of every place I've lived or worked Everything I eat today Contents of my bag, of...
See you in the Funny Papers
Kelly Kilmer wrote to me to let me know that Everyday Matters has been selected by Comic Journal as one of the notable comic books of the year! She tells me that as a result, her husband insists on...
Serendipidity do dah
When folks undergo what, for lack of a less gooey term, I'll call a creative reawakening, they often experience a surge of synchronicity. Opportunities bounce into their laps. Like minded people just show up. Connections are made, sparks fly,...
MemoryLane.com
This morning someone interviewed me and asked me how long I've been on the Internet. I wasn't sure. My first online experience was in 1983 or so with a thing called The Source, a sort of online community not...
Living well through bad drawings
When some people see an illustrated journal, they say, "Wow, that's great. I could never do that." With some coaxing, they may be persuaded nonetheless to give it a try. Others say, "Wow, I'm going to do that." And...
Sky Mall pop quiz
I have a new piece in my favorite online magazine that you might find amusing. I first thought of it on the way home from vacation when I pulled the bizarreness that is the Sky Mall catalog from the...
The Art of the Cinema
In the movies, artists are generally bastards, nuts or addicts. Here are some of my favorites. Biopics The Agony & the Ecstacy: Irving Stone boils down the Sistine Chapel with a liberal amount of artistic license. Good painting scenes....
Todd's bestiary
My friend Todd is one of those intensely creative people who can make anything out of anything. He makes perfect model ships from bits and piece and his obsession with the Poseidon Adventure drove him to build a scale...
Grid
The members of Everyday Matters, the Yahoo!group, have been working on an interesting project. Take a page, divide it into thirty squares (pipaudstudio created a Word template you can download here), then do a drawing each day in one of...
Inspiration Journal: Tony Forster
This guy is scarily good. Tony Forster's watercolors depict his treks around the world, to the rain forests of Costa Rica, the volcanic island of Montserrat, Bolivia's mile-high lakes, the slopes of the Sierra Nevada and the scorching desert...
Inspirational Journal: GI Sketchbook
For anyone who has ever felt that they had no time to draw, were too stressed out to draw, had nothing interesting to draw, I offer a few pages from G.I. Sketch Book, published by Penguin Books on July...
Inspirational Journal: Muriel Foster
This is one of my prized possessions. In fact, I prize it so much I repeatedly give it away and then go hunt for a new copy. Muriel Foster(1884-1963) started keeping this diary in 1913 whenever she went fishing...
25 Books of the Year
Some people have asked me what happened to my (Flash) feature 25 Books of the Year. Well, it's here....
Story of the day
Making time for music....
Seeing the Site
I was riding my bike down the West Side yesterday afternoon and passed Ground Zero. It's a big construction site these days and, like a typical New Yorker, I just breezed past. For some reason, this time I noticed...
Sign me up, buttercup
There are about a half a dozen people who have signed up for updates from this blog but whose email addresses bounce back to me. If you would like to receive such an update but haven't been, let me know...
Re-learning to draw
My boy, Jack, 9, has always loved to draw. He draws in the symbolic away kids do, inventing characters in his mind, drawings scenes and battles and maps and worlds. Recently though we have been talking about drawing realistically...
New gig
My favorite online magazine has invited me to join their staff. Cool....
Credit where due
To all those who came a knockin' to no avail over the past day or so, my host, AnywhereHost.com, has been switching servers and skipped a beat. Now all seems kosher once more. I was originally hosted by AlphaOne.com but,...
Hellhounds on My Trail
"Context is everything that isn't physically contained in the grooves of the record. It includes your knowledge that everyone else says he's great: that must modify the way you hear him. That he was a handsome and imposing man,...
Zine scene
I think the core motivator for my journaling is a love of making books. At six, I made one about a knight and his pet dachshund that I still remember quite clearly. And I got my first computer in 1982...
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...
Red, yellow and two blues
I'm still amazed at what emerges from my palette as I do my color theory homework. Greens, sure. Purples, of course. But greys and tans and pinks, all from my four original primary colors? (The hyacinth come from my...
The Color of Water
My favorite online magazine is running the journal pages from our vacation last week. If you don't already, check out the Morning News daily for news, stories and razor sharp wit....
The fundamental question
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo P. Here's a very basic and important issue I'd love you to think about. Why do you do it? Why do...
Booking a vacation
I dream very intensely on the first few days of a vacation, as my brain reorganizes its hard drive. Weird hallucinogenic dreams feather into each other, dredging up dramas, ancient and new. Old bosses, old addresses, old mistakes, reappear in...
Tanned, semi-rested and ready
We just came back from a pleasantish week in the Dominican Republic. Every so often, I would stagger out of my deck chair and draw some of the scenery. In lieu of sending you a postcard, I have put together...
Electron Fast II
I am going to be off the Web for a week or so. See you sometime after the 11th....
Happy little trees
There is something mesmerizing and horrifying about watching the art porn of Bob Ross and his mentor, William Alexander (master of "magic white") as they did wet-on-wet paintings of landscapes while standing in a blank TV studio. I guess...
Duh.
I totally forgot to mention that, on Monday, I had a new piece on The Morning News.org. I collaborated with Editor Rosecrans Baldwin who wrote descriptions of people in his neighborhood, sent them to me, and I drew what...
Vive la resistance!
I wrote to Chartpak, the US importer of Rotring, to ask them whether Rotring had stopped manufacturing Rapidoliners. Nancy Kopak replied: Not at this time, but we have been hearing the same rumors. If anything does happen, we plan...
Every bike matters
Taliah Lempert only paints bikes. Her site is bulging with wonderful portraits of steel, chrome and rubber. I love her style, her simplicity, her craft and consistency. She also documents many of the paintings as she does them with...
Rotring stampede
LilaO just wrote to me with the news that Rapidoliners were just discontinued last week by Rotring so I bolted out to stock up. Thanks to the brilliant new Froogle, I found the best prices are at Jerry's Artarama...
Childrens' books
This morning, Jack's class had a publishing party. Every couple of months, we are invited to his classroom (Patti can't go as the 4th graders are on the 4th floor and the school has no elevators) to share pieces...
Huh.
Readers of the Gothamist apparently think I should be writing a children's book....
Happy 151st birthday!
My main man. Self taught. Art mad. Color mad. Love mad. Saw more clearly, more electrifyingly than anyone before or since but a canvas a day couldn't keep the demons away. The original amateur. Reviled, rejected, immortal. What can...
Pendemonium
An inventory of my current stable of pens. They are all waterproof and under $10. Each drawing was done with the corresponding pen. Dip pen: I love to write with this pen. It’s a little scratchy and there’s something very...
Take the F train
I have a piece in the New York Times today, in a special section on the 100th anniversary of the subway. If you live in the City, check it out. If you don't, check it out....
Pigging-out on pigment
One key thing Ive learned over the past couple of months is that, when it comes to paint, a rose madder isnt a rose madder isnt a rose madder. Paints are very variable and theres a lot of science...
Jammin' good with Weird and Gilly
So I've mentioned here before that Jack, my boy, 9, good, handsome, smart, got into his skull that he just had to become a rock 'n' roll drummer and, despite my attempts to dissuade him, has been taking lessons...
Thinking on paper
My mum taught me to appreciate paper early. To riffle through blank journals and pinch the sheets between my finger pads. To consider pulp and fiber. To notice how a pen flows smoothly here while it bucks and protests...
Cataloging Colors
What does it take to name a color? Manufacturers do it every day for their own convenience. It helps them keep track of what they're making and how it's selling and distinguishes one season from another. Apparently, it also makes...
My Class II
I mentioned a while ago that I am teaching a class at Artiology in Atlantic City this May. It will be a one-day event, focussed on drawing and journaling. If anyone has any experience with Artiology or would like to...
Just add water
I'm no Archimedes, but Ive had a disproportionate number of good ideas in the five minutes or so of my day I spend in the shower. Ive explored a number of possible explanations. My shower pressure is fairly powerful for...
d.price in the news
Check out my buddy's interview and gallery at: the Morning News today...
The rhythm is gonna get you
Ive always enjoyed drawing series of things. Its so interesting to see variations on a theme, to explore connections between things, and to expand specifics into generalities and vice versa. I learn a lot by doing drawings of similar things,...
Tublegs
Tublegs is a small art zine that devotes a lot of space to odd crafts techniques and is a great source of inspiration. Between its covers I discovered nail polish photography, the aesthetics of cheap digicams, and new sources...
Oh, Milwaukee!
A nice review in today's Journal Sentinel...
Oh, Canada 2
The article on Everyday Matters appeared in the National Post today. It's quite good and huge. If you'd like to see a scan of it, courtesy of Antony Hare,click here. If you want to just read the text (no drawings),...
The Old Bamboo
My passion for my Rotring rapidoliner deepens. Unlike any other technical pen I've used, it is always on the ready, never clogs or sticks or leaks and I've never even had to shake it one time to force ink...
Oh, Canada!
If you happen to be a reader of the National Post, in the next few days you might run across a full page article on Everyday Matters. If you do, and want to clip it for me, that would be...
Twin Peaks
In 1925, Clifford Reed Daily tubercular, hunchbacked, a nut who fancied himself an architect met Otto Kahn millionaire banker and patron of the arts and intrigued him with a plan to inspire artists and spark a...
Electron Fast
I have not posted or visited this site for a week. I have been on an "electron fast", forsaking all activity on the computer and television (except for those things absolutely essential to my business). The rest has been liberating....
Counting Blessings
I hope this is legible. If you can't read it, just click on the picture and a larger version of it will open up....
Leave some of the details up to God
It is nice to curb my yen to draw every bit of minutiae. This morning I am letting my mind fill in some of the hyacinths to give my pen a rest. More neurons, less ink....
Early inspiration
I woke up at 5:15 this morning for no good reason and yet felt quite rested. Poking around for something quiet to start my day off on the right footing, I sat down with the last few postings on Wild...
I'm teaching a class
I have been invited to teach a class at Artiology, an arts retreat weekend, in Atlantic City on May 22. It will be one day, 7 hour workshop called the Art of the Illustrated Journal. I don’t know an awful...
Deaths in the Family
When I picked my Mum up from her trip to Africa three weeks ago, Fred was shockingly thin. Last weekend, he was much more subdued than normal and grew irritated and snapped at our hands when we petted him...
"But I don't have time to draw"
Draw lunch as you eat it : 1 drawing Draw the news as you watch it: 4 drawings Skip 1 sitcom: 3 drawings Skip 1 basketball game: 11 drawings Overtime: 2 drawings...
The neighbors have called the police!
I didn't get a chance to check on the new Yahoo! group until just now ( Patti and I went to the movies; saw "Osama" and " The Butterfly Effect" we gave them both a 7) and when I...
Party invitation
Let's talk to each other! One of the wonderful thing about having an online journal has been the dialogue I've had with people posting comments. But I would prefer it if the series of dialogues turned into a gigantic cocktail...
The Open Book
I am a member of a wonderful community called "Artist Journals 2" which is currently conducting a discussion on whether or not one should share the contents of one's illustrated journals with others. I had to chime in: I'm a...
The Big Draw
I'm not big on writing about things that are already on the Internet but I think this one is quite interesting and one may not normally stumble across it:"Drawing Power has a simple but ambitious aim - to get...
Imaginary friends
Class 5H
Dear Class 5H, Hazelwood Junior School, London, UK: I am so very happy to hear that you enjoyed my book, Everyday Matters, and that you are now keeping journals of your own. I was blown away to see how...
Happy Valentine's Day, PL
Feast your eyes on the most beautiful girl in the world. I hope your day is as full of love as all of mine are....
How are you?
Today my hypochondria is in remission but I never know quite when it will flair up. I was a little light headed yesterday and assumed I had internal bleeding, a cerebral aneurism, a tumor. Today, I feel fine but I've...
My foray into fashion
I have designed a t-shirt and mug for Bookslut, the venerable publishing site. If you're interested in getting one (it features books enjoying positions from the Kama Sutra),place your order and lend 'em your support....
Toppling giants
As I had hoped, my entry "Unplugged" has sparked a brisk debate on the aesthetics of digital drawing. Having taken on computers and drums, I shall next turn my attention to, in turn, pastel drawings, cilantro, and the films of...
Unplugged
I got my first mouse in 1983. It was attached to an Apple IIC, the grooviest PC to come along, a 9" monitor, a carrying handle, white like the current Apple design standard. There was a program called Macpaint...
My Name is Mud
Alfred Hitchcock meticulously planned out every shot in his films long before he set foot on the set. Then he waddled on with precise storyboards, his angles, lenses, lighting directions all completely worked out. Most artists arent so controlled....
Interview
If you aren't sick of me yet, read this interview in The Gothamist....
The final Chronicles
This evening we shipped out the last of the extra Moonlight Chronicles. They went to Judith M., Donna B., Soren MT., Gerri C., Wileen H. (envelope surgery, tssk, tssk), Samantha H., Judy H., Stephanie T. and Shana I. I...
Midpoints: my response
People turned in some great solutions ("Stupid nuns!") to this exercise. I guess my own answers were more literal and concrete somehow I felt like they had to be things one could hold in one's hand and draw....
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
Two years ago, the manuscript of what was to be "Everyday Matters" was lying in a drawer. At the time, it was pretty much like the book that's in stores today but it was called simply "A New York Diary"....
Chronicle shipment II
Patti & Jack packing up Moonlight Chronicles for: Sharon H., Serena BC, Stacey B., Donna B., Jacqui S., Heather E., Alan. M., Deborah C., Jacqueline P., Kathleen A., Amy LM., Wendy C., Rita C. Valerie T., Kathy T., and Erin...
Sick as a dog.
Patti and I have both contracted the stomach flu that attacked Jack earlier in the week. I shall be working in the bathroom today....
Moonlight Mail
Here's Jack sorting the first wave of Moonlight Chronicles packages heading out to: Laurie M., Katrien VDS, Dinah C, Tracy P., Emily L., Jan B., and Cynthia N. We hope you like 'em!...
If you're so great, why aren't you rich?
(Drawings done while watching a little over an hour of network TV)These are dark times for the nexus of art and commerce. Every industry that tries to make a buck from others creativity is moribund or in flames. The music...
Midpoints
Here is a fun and challenging creative ex