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Brush Forensics
A few years ago I was asked to create an illustrated love letter for a show of such letters at a local gallery. At the time I wasn’t traveling much. For me a really good love letter requires time and distance to ferment. I chose instead to write a love note to Dick about the […]
Thinking about White Hair on Toned Paper
There’s nothing finished in this study of a man with white hair and a beard. It’s me noodling around experimenting with how to get the values of white hair on toned paper. I’m working in a handbound journal made with Zerkall Nideggen (it has a lovely fiber fleck of texture throughout). I guess paper nostalgia […]
The Case for Not Finishing a Sketch
I’m the first person to encourage people to finish what they start. In fact I encourage people to push past the point where they think they have finished, because until you “break” a few sketches you don’t really know where that point of finish resides. But I also wanted to put a word in today […]
Learning to See Freckles Again
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Working Quickly with the Brush Pen
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Do You Stop Or Keep Pushing?
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Drawing Beard Stubble
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Eyebrow Update: Another Gouache Painting in the Nostalgie Sketchbook
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Changing Your Point of View
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Another Test in the Seawhite Sketchbook—and Eyebrow Update
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