So here is a new thing I’ve been drawing lately. If you accept last November as lately because that’s when I started doing them. Sketch covers. Sketch covers are comic books printed with a cover that is blank except for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A couple of years ago I wrote about getting into using magic markers as a medium after not having used them since my college days. As I have now settled into a marker technique that I’ve been using for a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got it in my head this week to write about pencils. Not just any pencils but he pencils I use and how I use them. Pencils are such a simple tool but there are a lot of different kinds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once again I’ve been digging through some old paintings to try and find some dates. These are my eight inch by ten inch acrylic paintings on canvas. I started making these ones because I wanted to make more paintings. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a pretty good season of winter bike riding. There wasn’t a lot of snow this year so I got to stay on my good weather route for most of the season. After a snow storm I usually stay[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Drifting and Dreaming” is the comic strip that I run every Sunday on this site. It’s not your everyday comic. None of my comics are particularly traditional but “Drifting and Dreaming” is the one of the three I run here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I picked this next gouache painting to write about because it is an example of the second way that I use gouache plus it’s one of my oldest gouache paintings. One of the first examples from when I was learning[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second media that I learned to paint in, after oils, was gouache. Gouache is a watercolor paint that has white added to it so, instead of being transparent like regular watercolor, gouache is opaque. It can also be watered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week color makes an appearance. Way back in the olden days of the late 1980s and the early 1990s I, and many others, used to make color sketches with watercolors or markers. Markers could be easier but they also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It looks like this week’s post is going to be a “How-To” post. Or maybe I should call it a “How-I-Did-It” post because that’s a more apt description. After all I don’t expect anybody to be following my steps. but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…