What am I doing today you ask? Well, I’m watching my NY Giants lose to the Philadelphia Eagles and scanning some old family negatives. But now I’m taking a break from scanning to write a little bit about… scanning. I’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’m used to getting things done. By “Things” I mean creative stuff. This blog, my art, and anything else that I feel moved to make. One of the reason for that is health. I’m a healthy person and I don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve got $250 worth of art supplies sitting in my basket at the Dick Blick website. I want to buy all that stuff but I haven’t pulled the trigger just yet. That’s because $250 is a lot of money to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I continue my quest to make my own illustrated version to “The Great Gatsby” I come to a point where I’ve made a couple of dozen finished illustrations so what I should do next isn’t and easy question to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been in a bit of an art malaise lately. It’s January 8th as I write this and I think it’s something that hits me every January. With the beginning of a new year I take a look at what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s January the first of 2023 as I write this. December was here and is now gone but as I look back on the month I notice that I bought a lot of odds and ends in terms of art[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I watched the movie “Clerks III” last night. The original “Clerks” came out back in 1994 when I was 27 years old. I didn’t see it in the theaters but watched in on video with some friends when it was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was back in the winter of 2019-2020 that I started looking to buy a new compact super zoom camera. I had been commuting into NYC a couple of days a week and when I did that I liked to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of my favorite pieces of drawing equipment is the Haff Hatching Machine. I’ve mentioned it before but since no one I know but me has ever used one I’ll describe it. It’s a straight edge (like a ruler) that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes I have to stop and take stock of what art I’ve made over the last year or so. I’m generally pretty good at getting things done but part of the process is examining what I’ve done. If art is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…