يونيو 2021

Things don’t go as planned as I paint a cake display at the diner. First the primer (acrylic latex house paint) makes the gouache bead up. ...

The appearance of a watercolor pigment as it comes out of the tube may be rather different from the way it looks when it is thinned with wat...

Here's a house in Philmont, New York, with an arbitrary color shift from cool to warm gouache. View this post on Instagram ...

Joaquin Sorolla, Cafe in Paris, 1885 Outdoor dining has always been a favorite subject for plein-air painters, and I'd like to suggest i...

Arthur, Oriana, and Bix climb into a strutter left over from Dinotopia's ancient times and figure out how to get it going. From Dinotopi...

BDSuits asks: "Why is it called Hookers Green? I don't see the connection."   The Dutch Codlin by William Hooker Answer: It...

Pollarding is the practice of cutting back the smaller branches of a tree to a certain point each time and allowing them to regrow for futur...

Here's an experiment with unusually broad handling—big, chunky strokes in oil made with large brushes and lots of paint. I also pushed t...

Bernard Garbutt (1900-1975) was an animator and teacher at Disney during the studio's golden age. He taught animal drawing during the pr...

The Artist's Magazine asked about my favorite artist when it comes to draftsmanship, and you know who I had to spotlight! More in my bo...

For this informal sketch of a gravel road crossing a stone bridge I use transparent watercolor because of the sparkling qualities it offers....

If you ordered a signed bookplate from my online store, chances are it's one of these. ( Link to webstore )

International fans have said they wish they could get something hand signed, so I came up with these hand-printed and signed bookplates whi...

As far back as Leonardo da Vinci, artists have propelled our understanding of anatomy.  One artist named Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934)...

  Melanie and Kalyptra, a Dryosaurus, take Arthur Denison on a tour of the plant world, from Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time. This looks l...

  Lutheran church, Ancram, NY, pencil and gray wash, 9 x 12 in. The gray wash is diluted ink that I carried around in a plastic jar. It work...

Erik Theodor Werenskiold (1855 – 1938) was a Norwegian illustrator and painter.  He traveled to France, where he studied with Léon Bonnat ....

This wild-born male chimpanzee named H.N. noticed that I was drawing his portrait. I was careful not to stare at him, just glance respectful...

After a year's delay, the exhibition " Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration " opens this weekend at the Norman Rockwel...