I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions. As a matter of fact I’ve never made one. I can make resolutions at any time during the year and act on them so I’ve never had the need to do them at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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This past weekend I dove into designing the book for my illustrated version of “The Great Gatsby” once again. After letting it sit around, for somewhere around half a year, because I hated the book design I made for it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m generally an organized person plus I like to put things in order. A place for everything and everything in its place. At least at the beginning. I’m not an overly neat person so entropy works its chops on me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was tempted to name this piece “Strange Things That I Buy” but they’re really not strange. They’re just odds and ends. Often they’re impulse buys that are just a few bucks and for some reason I think, in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Asterios Polyp” by David Mazzucchelli came out back in 2009 and I wrote a little review of it (The First) . Then I reread it in 2020 and wrote another piece on it (The Second). Here we are near the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got the Royal Talens Pantone markers that I wrote about buying on eBay last week. This week I can tell you all about using them. They’re water based pigment markers as opposed to the alcohol dye based markers that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m a big fan of magic markers. I used them back in my college days in the 1980s and then I picked them up again around the year 2010 to try and find a finished style that I could make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One thing I haven’t written about in a while is the illustrated version of “The Great Gatsby” that I’ve been working on. I think I’m on year four of working on it but I really haven’t done much with it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Friday October 3, 2025 I was at the civic center in Poughkeepsie NY. What was I doing there? I was part of the Hudson Valley Region Portfolio Day 2025. It was put on by a group called The Art[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week I wrote about my favorite drawing pencils the Pentel P207 .7mm mechanical pencil. I guess that got me all excited about pencils and that one specifically so I started looking at them on the internet. Just to see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…