مارس 2020

Just before the stay-at-home order, I looked for a secluded spot to paint alongside the railroad tracks on the Empire Corridor, or what used...

We often hear voices from glowing screens saying that we're 'trapped at home' during this period of coronavirus lockdown. Joseph...

The cliff dwellings in Dinotopia's Great Canyon would be a good place to spend time cut off from the world.  Few people and few saurians...

William Ewart Gladstone's portrait was painted, sculpted, and photographed many times, given that he was one of the most influential fig...

A reminder from the 1918 pandemic, when telephones were the ultimate social medium (in fact they still are). Thanks, Roberto Q. and Brian S.

I try out a new format for sharing lettering and drawing that I call a "Chalk Talk." I'm drawing on glass with chalk markers, ...

Here’s where you want to be safely ensconsed during the pandemic. There's plenty of food, board games, puppets, and musical instruments....

Albert Uderzo , who co-created and drew the "Asterix" comic from 1959-2009, has died at age 92.

Today, some of us begin a new week of coronavirus confinement. Workers face the prospect of doing labor in their domestic settings (if they ...

Sending out a healing image to you all.  This one is from Dinotopia: The World Beneath. 

Those of you who do art for a living have many different kinds of jobs, such as art teachers, animators, game designers, gallery painters, i...

Writer and farmer Wendell Berry (born 1934) has advocated finding inspiration close to home. "What we need is here," he said. &quo...

The 1930s was a time of economic depression, but it was also the decade when cartoon animation went through its greatest period of creative ...

Are you looking for a project to do during home confinement? How about building a sketch easel? I have an inexpensive and  easy to follow tu...

A blog reader asked: "Do you carry any greens with you and if so, what’s a decent green for landscape? I’ve been trying out sap green a...

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, oil sketch showing the top of one palm tree, with a glorious crown of palm fronds, beside a pair...

Here's a quick portrait sketch of my son Dan. He lives in Dublin, Ireland now, doing app development for a software company, but luckily...

Gouache Preliminary Sketches: Fast, Fun, and Low-Risk Painting Techniques Comment on the video:  Painting an Aspen Forest in Colorado Welthe...

View this post on Instagram The set-up. Link in bio to sketch easel tutorial. #sketcheasel #pleinair #pleinairpainting #urbansketching #ti...

People had some good questions about my recent YouTube video  Sketching an Old Firehouse (Big Revisions to the Painting Halfway Through) sof...

When you paint with gouache, you can work out the details as you go and even make big revisions late in the process. When you cover over pre...

Virus willing, I'll be enthusiastically taking part in Lightbox Expo, a first rate gathering of illustrators, concept artists, and other...

Cantastoria is an Italian word for a form of storytelling that uses pictures accompanied by song. A story singer from Wikipedia "Pictu...

Giuseppe Marastoni, (1834-1895) Venice-born Giuseppe Marastoni painted the Piazza San Marco. He trained as an engraver, mainly produced port...

Olina Chang asks: "I have a question [about the painting below]. When presenting these curvy overlapping shapes, [did you paint] "...

Sculpture of Columbus by Mary Lawrence Sculptor Lorado Taft needed assistants to help him carry out the decorations for the Horticulture bui...

My next article in  International Artist Magazine  (Issue 132 April/May 2020) is about the pencil, the the universal tool for any artist or ...

Conservator Alan Donnithorne of the  Royal Collection Trust  demonstrates the materials and methods used by Leonardo da Vinci for his silver...

John Singer Sargent, Pavement of St. Mark's , 1898 In late-nineteenth-century Venice, worshippers and tourists had to share St. Mark'...