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...
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
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...
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...
More time-lapse drawing
I didn't make this. He did. Jack and I did, however, try to make something like it (drawing on white board and filming it in stop motion) and can report that it is an awful lot harder than it looks....
"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...
Groceries
Harry Kalmer of Johannesburg invited me (and lots of talented artists including EDMers Michael Nobbs, Nancy Ghandi, and Trevor Romain) to contribute illustrations for his new book, Groceries: 56 Stories Oor Huishopudelike Produkte. (If that title seems a little...
Portrait #606
Portrait #604
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...
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...
Me and Sony
I just got a teeny new Sony camera and am making little films and little pictures. I have renewed my interest in flickr, thanks to the fantastic pictures that my buddy D.Price has been sending from his round the...
Joe and Tim
A short music video featuring our wiener dog, Joe, and our new wiener dog and Joe's half-brother, Tim. Click on "more" below to watch it....
HOW on newstands
I am very excited by the new issue of How magazine. The cover I designed looks great in print (and actually features my name - a first) and I am pleased with the 8 page article I wrote and...
Sunday Road Rage
Check out the new film that Jack and I made. It's teeny here but click the link to see it bigger. Get this video and more at MySpace.com...
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...
New Podcast: Tiki Taka and Jahina
We're cranking them out, folks. A new podcast episode, EDM005, this one featuring my favorite artist, Jack Tea Gregory. It's recorded with my spanking new mic, and features an incredible story of death and wisdom. Oh and a hockey-playing...
Illustrated Letters 2
A few more lovely illustrated letters straggled in after the last exhibition. I have created a new gallery here. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. Thanks again to every one who has written me; it...
Dadhood
A group of us men discussed the ups and downs, ins and outs of being a father. The results were published this morning on The Morning News. Check it out and then be glad you have your own dad....
The 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....
Sketchcrawls - how to
Mary Ann asked me about the ingredients of a sketchcrawl so she could put one together in Boise, ID. My response: Sketch Crawls are based on the model of the pub crawl. Go to a place -- draw (or drink)...
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...
Mother Nature didn't get the e-mail
When I walked Joe at 8:30, all indicators pointed to 'go' so I threw on a couple of layers, picked up my folding stool and drawing bag and at 9 I was standing under the Washington Square Arch. By this point, not a single cloud was left and the sky was completely, achingly blue. I sat in the park and did a bad drawing, hoping against hope that some one might not have read my cancellation memo and would show up but, no, I was alone.
Wisdom and strife 'nut
The new installment of my ongoing pre-parental saga, Peanut, contains much good advice from my mother and grandfather as well as a description of the first time I betrayed my loyal and swollen spouse....
Mon nouveau livre
Last Thanksgiving, Patti and I took a lovely trip to Paris and I made about sixty illustrations for Eric Maisel's book, A Writers Paris: A Guided Journey For The Creative Soul . The book is on store shelves now...
Blanking
I totally forgot to mention that there was a new installment of Peanut last week. Or was it the week before. I'm losing it. Anyway, check it out. Maybe let me know if I'm wasting my time with the...
Proof
I just spent a lovely couple of hours on 67th Street going over the first round pf proofs of my new book with Anna, my wonderful Hyperion production person. There are hundreds and hundreds of drawings and watercolors and...
Releaf
On Sunday, I took the first drawing class I've had since I was eleven. It was at the Open Center, a sort of granola-y place in Soho which offers many new Age classes on creativity, meditation, and other sorts...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
Pony girls
A few months ago, I went to Berlin and my illustrated journal from that trip is in the July/August issue of Print magazine. It was about Venus, the European sex trade show. Now calm down, folks, I did say...
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...
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....
New gig
My favorite online magazine has invited me to join their staff. Cool....
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....
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...
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....
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...
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....
For PL, PJ, JT, CT, RB, DP & You
A martini memory
This is a photocopy of a watercolor I just made for our friend, Cynthia. It commemorates the night I introduced her to Patti, four years ago. We went to the Pierre, had too many martinis and, upon leaving, Patti...
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...
Making book
A few people have asked me what sort of books I make my journals in, so here's the short answer: I bound all the books in this group. It's not as hard as I first thought and let me choose...
For the detail oriented
For those who'd like to see details of my 000 drawings, here are blown up images: Detail 1 Detail 2 Detail 3 Detail 4 Detail 5 I hope that's helpful....
Making Stuff
Today we were all very busy. I managed to finish my project for Artiology, "a Celebration of the wonder that is the human body," a theme which frankly left me dry. I don't really celebrate the body, nor do...
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.