After posting my contour drawing of Perseus a few days ago, an art buddy wrote me a very nice note and suggested that maybe sometime in the future I could draw something a little less scary, like Aphrodite, for example. So here it is, based on the statue of Venus de Milo. Again, this was […]

We’ll go back to drawings tomorrow. In the meantime, I am reveling in the blooming of the first of my chrysanthemums. I took these pictures yesterday after a a bit of light rain. Today, unfortunately, we had a cloudburst and most of the blooms are looking rather bedraggled. I think I have about 30 different […]

I’ve been doing a lot of blind contour drawings, prompted mainly by the wonderful group activity instigated by Niff and Sutter over at Inkfinger … and that led naturally to doing some contour drawings with eyes wide open - looking at both the picture and the paper. This one was done in 2-3 minutes in […]

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What? You think this is a blind contour drawing? No … this is exactly the way my vaccum looks with the cord so tangled that it is impossible to use. You should see my house. No, really, you shouldn’t. Next week: blind contour dust bunnies. (I included the black and white […]

The contrabassoon player. I really liked your Hawaiian shirt. I’m not sure that it had palm fronds and hibiscus but I think most of them do, so I hope you won’t mind that I took liberties with your attire.

A trumpet player, sitting fairly far from me. I’m sorry it doesn’t look like you. About all […]

I get a lot of email on this blog. But I just got one of the strangest ever.
I drew this teak stool in the bathroom of the hotel where we stayed in San Francisco earlier this year. Someone just sent me an email that said, simply, “I would like to purchase the teak […]

I had been thinking about the quake in Pakistan and made an attempt to suggest the size and scale of the recovery process with this experimental imaginary sketch painted in Photoshop. So I just finished posting it here and turned my thoughts to Illustration Friday. I was wondering what to do on the theme […]

Yesterday we had the opportunity to be guests at the orchestral scoring session for the annual Simpsons’ “Treehouse of Horror” Halloween show with composer Alf Clausen, orchestrator Dell Hake and a roomful of tremendously gifted performers. We stayed for the entire morning session and loved every eerie, spine-tingling, rip-roaring moment. We were in the booth […]

We’re still moving things around. So here’s a page from the sketchbook from a week or so ago.
Uh, those are supposed to be some pieces of sushi, not awnings on a bed of white gravel.