I was making some drawings this week and I made some with my Three Marker technique (Art Writing Three Marker Technique Blog) for the first time in a little while. It’s actually not as accurate a name for the technique[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Recently I’ve been thinking about what artistic things I want to get done this summer. I’m not big on list making but occasionally I do make them. So these are the things I’ve been writing down in my notebook that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday I made 42 new ink textures. I made them in a sketchbook that has 42 pages (I filled the front of all the pages). A 5.5 by 8 inch Strathmore Visual Journal sketchbook that had good thick 100 pound[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided that I wanted to turn as much of my art into prints as possible. It’s going to take months and months to do but I want some ready to go in case I need them. Some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In my younger days I often read the phrase, “He was a good artist but not good at business.” That made me think that I should make sure I was “Good at business.” It sounded like a good thing to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m finally over a cold that was with me for about two weeks. From around the 20th of March to about the first of April I got no art made in those two weeks. I didn’t have the energy. Now[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back in the 1990s, when I was a younger man, I had a couple of coats that I wore that I had made paintings on. A long duster and a short denim jacket. Then time went by, the coats wore[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A month ago I wrote about painting Funko Pops. I had painted the first one back then and had no idea what I was doing. Since then I have painted three more and now have much more of an idea[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was on a roll yesterday (Saturday March second) like I haven’t been on in a while. Last week I wrote about printing out proofs for my “The Great Gatsby” illustrated book and this week I finished up four illustrations[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After about two years and two months (it’s February 25, 2024 as I write this) I finally have a printed proof of the illustrated version to “The Great Gatsby” that I’ve been working on. I had to print it out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…