If you missed the UCLA-Stanford game Saturday you missed another incredible white-knuckler.
Note to Bruins: yes, we like drama, but waiting until last 9 minutes of the fourth quarter to score 21 points and tie it up at 24-24 is just a little too much excitement for the likes of me. (The score was Stanford […]

Once again it’s time for El Dia de Los Muertos, as it’s known in Los Angeles and other cities with a heavy Latin American influence. We also call it Halloween, but I think the ‘muertos’ theme is much more interesting, as are the traditions that accompany it.
Every year I create an artistamp to swap with […]

This is a composite of two things I’ve drawn before … a background from a card used in a Halloween exchange last fall, and a drawing done earlier this year of Minnie, my friend’s papillon, used in the Illustration Friday “Dare” challenge.
I had been thinking of posting something wolfish for a Halloween motif - after […]

Look, it’s a magic trick. I have cleverly tried pasting in some texture to the antique chair to create the illusion of actual drawn lines where there are none so you won’t think the drawing stinks as much as it really does! But then, in a moment of guilt-ridden angst I am compelled the […]

Busy, busy days. We’re working on a new video project involving an organization that’s helping the survivors of Katrina in Los Angeles and in the process we’re meeting some very resilient people and hearing incredible stories of suffering and survival. There wasn’t a lot of extra time for recreational drawing today, so I briefly […]

Rosa Parks
Feb 4, 1913 - October 25, 2005

How I spent my Saturday. I was presented with several alternatives:
a) scrub brush
b) toilet brush
c) sink brush
d) brush attachment on the vacuum cleaner
e) push brush for back porch
f) brush pen
Guess which one I picked?
Life is short. I can chase dust motes when my eyes are too weak to see and my hand too shaky to […]

I need more RAM
Not the computer kind. Not Random Access memory.
That kind of RAM I’ve got plenty of.
I need this kind. The kind with hooves and horns. The kind you catch a glimpse of on a mountainside.
I need more days outside before the chill of winter comes.
More trips to the zoo, more walks in the […]

Well, here we go again - it’s another dumb looking offering to the Blind Contour Cult, artfully organized and agitated by Niff and Sutter at Inkfinger (see link in column at right.) Bonus points if you can even tell what these things are. They looked so silly I couldn’t resist giving them some eyes […]

A watercolor nature sketch that fits the “Cold” theme, I think.
Oh, and this is what cold looks like on Mars …

(painted in Corel Painter)