Je l'aime bien
Carol Gillot's Paris breakfasts blog featuring watercolors of same. You might like her main site too....
Bell-isima
I urge you to look at the wonderful new journal pages Richard Bell has been putting out over the past month. He has redesigned the way he does his pages, adding calligraphy and a more organic design and it...
Serendipity
It's weird how this issue of HOW magazine has brought so many threads together. There's great article about how to develop your career as an illustrator by one of my original muses, Keri Smith. I love her books, and her...
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...
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...
Watch Picasso draw!
Read the rest of this entry to see a wonderful video of the master....
Radio Nobbs
Michael Nobbs has been busy. I had no sooner finished enjoying the fresh issue of his wee magazine, The Beany, when he announced the first episode of his podcast. Michael is a gentle soul, who draw lovely cups of...
Nice
Check out Joyce Cole's work on Moleskinerie.com...
Kane Online
My good pal and drawing buddy, Tom Kane, has finally put his drawings on line and started a blog. His work is fantastically good and inspiring and his blog is a treat. Check it out here and welcome him to...
Marcel van Eeden
The Morning News has an interesting exhibit on show of some great pencil drawings. Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden was born in 1965 in The Hague. His magnum opus is to make a drawing a day based on any...
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...
$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...
Prash update
Prashant Miranda has been sending me more pages from the journal he is keeping during his trip back home to Benares, India and I have created a gallery of these pages: Prash Update Gallery. I love Prash's style, his...
Newly discovered drawings sites
Spend some time with these inspiring sites. But not too much. Save time for drawing. A great animated tour of a ball point sketchbook collaboration:DQ3. Fascinating flight of imagination: Drawings of skeletons of cartoon characters Fantastic illustrations that combine...
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...
Laura and Linda and You
"I plan to rent an apartment in Paris for the month of October, just to draw..." I am delighted to see Laura F. has an ambitious set of New Year art resolutions on her blog. What are yours? I like...
From my father
My stepmother just sent me recent work from my dad in Leicestershire. It seems he has moved beyond self-portraits....
Prash mail
My pal, Prashant Miranda, just sent me some of his journal pages. His work is lovely and I have included several of his drawings in my new book. He writes: Here are my initial pages of my travels, from...
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.
Rough Patch
I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing; and I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they might learn to draw."...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pen pals
I am really lucky to have a friend who has taught me an awful lot about journaling. D.Price is the author of a wonderful zine called Moonlight Chronicles (subscribe and you will be very happy) and he and I...
Guest Blogger: Jack Tea Gregory
I’ve been drawing for years, since I was 2 years old, but (unlike my dad) I’ve never, ever. . . . . . ever been good at drawing real live things . For example; we have a rooster made out...
Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Fabrication
Don't get me wrong — I’m not a huge motorcycle enthusiast. The Hells’ Angels HQ is several blocks due east of us and I usually cross to other side if I have to walk by. Dentists and attorneys in...
From Abby & James
My good friend, Richard, was kind enough to share a wonderful letter he got from his nephew, James, and his partner, Abby, who recently got a copy of Everyday Matters. They have given us all permission to read it....
Happy Birthday, T!
If you're American, you probably don't know much about Tintin, the first and finest graphic novels. We own and have reread them all. So many of the scenarios seem written for today — pesky Middle Easterners, loony dictators, terrorists,...
Guest journal - Chris Ware
I have been re-studying one of my favorite objects of 2003, Chris Ware’s The Acme Novelty Date Book. Ware publishes a magazine called the Acme Novelty Library which has been primarily devoted to a long and spectacularly drawn story...
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.