Summer Idleness

Oh, goodness me. Summer is nearly over. School has started, and I am not quite ready for that puttery, creative, idle and not idle, Perfect Saturday, liberty hall time to end. But fall brings its own energy, and I love … Continue reading

Giant tie-dyed parachute for Cincinnati Ballet

A wonderful puzzle: a giant nylon parachute makes an undulating lake from which three witchy ladies rise up. Its not magical unless it looks like Sandra Woodall’s wonderful sketch for the Ladies of the Lake for The Cincinnati Ballet’s Camelot. … Continue reading

Happy New Year and the 2014 Artist’s and Graphic Designer’s Market

                  The Successful Artist’s Career Guide: Finding Your Way in the Business of Art is excerpted in the 2014 edition of The Artist’s and Graphic Designer’s Market! Along with a lot of … Continue reading

Mixed Media Techniques for Art Journaling

                                    New from North Light Books: I just got my two copies of Mixed Media Techniques for Art Journaling in the mail from … Continue reading

Lost Coast Post review and giveaway

                                                                (Appaloosa Rocks, from Alternative Art Journals: the bottom … Continue reading

Getting Comfortable with Roughs

Sometimes when we are drawing, we can get obsessed with the perfection of the thing we are doing, forgetting about the purpose of it. These tumbling rough drawings by Masters, made as preparatory sketches, or as studies, are often the … Continue reading

Right Brain Rockstar: Follow Your Inner Compass and Make a Living Doing What You Love

              An interview and review of The Successful Artist’s Career Guide on the wonderful site, Right Brain Rockstar! If you live in the US, UK or Canada, Dan Johnson of Right Brain Rockstar is … Continue reading