Update
I have not been posting. But I have been drawing. I began a new larger (8.5" x 11.5") book and committed to only drawing in black and white. Because of the size of the book, I keep it at...
A Personal Journey from 6H to 6B
It may seem hard to believe, upon looking at my current bloated form, but there was a time, years ago, when I went to the gym and lifted weights every day. Seven days a week for over a year,...
School for Evil - exploratory
Toward the end of Fall semester of my sophomore year, I found a small reading room deep within the bowels of my college library. It was called "The Somebody or Other Memorial Hunting and Fishing Library" and was almost...
Brush Twice a Day
Maybe I'm my own worst enemy. Or maybe I just love being a novice. Or maybe I'm bored too easily. But if I gaze back on the course of my passage across the infinite drawing landscape, I look like...
Rama's Portrait Party
Rama Hughes is a fantastic illustrator who has started an interesting new project: The Portrait Party. As he puts it: "In order to play, you and a fellow artist must pair up and draw portraits of one another. you...
LA Watercolor: a demo
Click To Play A demonstration of how I do a pen, ink, and watercolor painting of an LA landscape. Includes time lapse and extensive commentary. It is long, a little large, and may take a minute or two to...
Portrait 694 demonstrated
I made a little film of how I drew and painted this portrait. I hope it's helpful. Click To Play Click To Play...
Fade to grey
One of the major issues with the books I like to make is that publishers hate to pay for 4-color printing. It creates a lot more complexity in the production process and drives up the cost of making the...
Street Folks
People walking down the street are one of the more challenging subjects for me draw. They are always changing shape and size or just disappearing before I can study them long enough to get down on paper. As I'd...
Portrait #603
Kitchen Window
In the morning, as I eat my breakfast and listen to the news, I like to draw the view out the window. I can see the Park and the Judson church and the layers of buildings stretched out to...
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Class with a capital "K"
Yesterday, Jack and I overcame our usual aversion to art classes and joined Patti on 6th Street and Avenue B at a comic drawing class. The teachers were graduates of a comic drawing college in NJ, though one of...
Joe and Tim
A short music video featuring our wiener dog, Joe, and our new wiener dog and Joe's half-brother, Tim. Click on "more" below to watch it....
Trial balloon
A failed but informative experiment in art.
Every Hair Matters: a graphic novella
Recent Adventures and a New Venture
I have had several interesting drawing experiences over the past month and neglected to share them here. The first was soon after I had arrived in Los Angeles and attended a sketchcrawl arranged by the SoCal Drawing Room, a...
A Dawg's Tale
Jack's newest experiments in stop-motion animation.
The world redrawn
Bush draws at summitHouse leaders go on Sketchcrawl through underprivileged D.C. neighborhoods.Donald Trump uncaps his gold fountain pen and draws wetland area where he had proposed new development.
Painting in need of a pedicure
In a tribute to Bob Ross and William Alexander, I shot and narrated a little time-lapsed film of me drawing the view from my balcony. The ultimate drawing isn't very good � I found it quite hard to get...
My perspective on perspective
School's back on and NYU students wander through my neighborhood, clutching new books and pencils. Quite often, I see some of them set up in the park, preparing to draw Washington Square arch. It's a beautiful landmark, and I've...
On Cross Hatching
As you spend more and more time drawing, there usually comes a point when contour drawing isn't enough. You can set down lines that perfectly describe the shapes in front of you but you become interested in giving your...
45 in 45 by 45
Jack and I did a fun exercise this morning. We drew 45 minute-long drawings in 45 minutes, pounding through reams of recycled paper....
Death Row II
The Morning News is carrying another installment from my Death Row Journals with some lovely watercolors and heart-warming stories. Dig in....
Death Row Diaries
My favorite online magazine, the Morning News, ran some of my Death Row drawings today. They're as grim as watercolors get. Check it....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Midpoints
Here is a fun and challenging creative exercise sent to me by Lori in San Francisco: Above are several pairs of objects. The trick is to determine what the midpoint is, whether physically, ideologically, conceptually, or ridiculously,...
Fine! Drummers are cool.
I see my attempts to dissuade Jack from his focus by pretending drummers are uncool has met with a fair amount of objection from readers. My point was twofold: a) that dads and other authority figures will do many things...
Marching to the beat of your own drummer
Jack's been fairly adamant about it since last summer. He wants to learn the drums. I suggested the harmonica, the ukulele, the Jew's harp, but he won't yield. I point out that we have an apartment and neighbors, that...
Bookbinding 101
I have bound many of my journals myself. I learned how at a fantastic place called The Center for Book Arts, here in Manhattan. It was a lifelong dream come true, learning to make my own hard cover books. I...
The Unwanted
This is a big journal drawing, chronicling a recent wander through other people's trash piles. Click on the pic above to see it big....
Helluva town
A few years ago, we decided to take a vacation in New York. Yes, we live in New York but we've never been tourists here. So we went to the Whitney biennial and the Cooper Hewitt triennial, the Museum of...
Drawing - Jackass style
WARNING: the following drawing exercise may lead to death and dismemberment. I first tried this with d.price as we were driving due east from the Rockies across Kansas. The land was so flat we could see all 360 degrees of...
Sic transit
Or I have known them all already, known them all:— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons…" - T.S Eliot This is a drawing of time elapsing. I took an apple...
DeStuffing my life
Maybe it's all this Christmas loot but Patti and I both had an urge to purge our home of some of the things that clutter it. I decided to pick on a little curio cabinet in our kitchen and...
A record of my exploration into all aspects of drawing, illustrated journaling, creativity, and the inspiring aspects of art. By the author of "Everyday Matters," "The Creative License", and "An Illustrated Life" and other books.