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Grief and Reading
Above: My view of the bedroom as I sit in bed and look towards the closet. Page spread from my 7.5 inch square Nideggen journal, cropped on the right for privacy. Faber-Castell Pitt Calligraphy Pen. (I started with a Staedtler Pigment Liner but it was drying out and no fun, so I grabbed the other […]
Overcoming Resistance in Your Creative Life
Above: Selfie made looking in the bathroom mirror, sketching with a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen, on Nideggen (in a handmade journal that's about 7 1/2 inches square). (Text obscured for privacy.) Vertigo or not, I'm going to sketch every day. It keeps me tuned up for those days when I can really pull out all […]
Proportions and Features: Eyeballing vs. Systems
Left: Selfie made while looking in the bathroom mirror. A 7 x 7 inch, approx. journal (turned on its side so I could have a vertical) I made with Niddegen. I used a fiber-tipped brush pen containing Platinum Carbon Black ink cartridges. I'm wearing my favorite T-shirt—a 25 year old Lake Street Shirt design, given […]
Book Review: Art Before Breakfast
Above: A spread from one of Danny Gregory's visual journals—this one contained grey paper. It's included here as an example of the quirky and delightful sketches you'll see in his new book "Art Before Breakfast." In the post below you'll find a link to a trailer announcing the book. It gives you a flip through […]
Marc Taro Holmes’ “The Urban Sketcher—Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location”
It's lunch time and but instead of taking my break I'm writing to you about this new book by Marc Taro Holmes—The Urban Sketcher:Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location. (He recommends buying the book from Amazon for the best price, in his blog post about the book publication.You can see the book cover in […]
Relish: Lucy Knisley’s Visual Memoir Tells the Story of Her Life through Food
In December 2009 I found a graphic travel memoir by Lucy Knisley, "French Milk." I loved it as you can see if you read that post. Using a brush pen to sketch the moments of her trip to France with her mother, Knisley created a visually engaging and emotionally interesting mother-daughter memoir. I still recommend […]
“Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolor” by Mary Whyte
Left: Cover of Mary Whyte's "Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolor." Image ©Mary Whyte. I think I must have first seen some of Mary Whyte's lovely watercolor portraits in magazines. I don't know how I missed seeing that she'd published "Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolor" in 2011. But a couple years ago I did […]
“The Drawing Club”—Not Just Another Book On Drawing
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The Ghost Army—Sketching in Extreme Situations
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Elder Care: The Hardest Job I Have Ever Had—And a Book Recommendation
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