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30 December 2015
28 December 2015
27 December 2015
The Sherlock Holmes Project
Summary: The beginning of a series of posts about my Sherlock Holmes thesis project showing preliminary sketches.
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A Maudlin Sketch
I did this sketch in my sketchbook. I guess I was feeling a little maudlin… Then I found this quote, which made me feel a little better. “Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful — be concerned with doing good […]
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18 December 2015
16 December 2015
14 December 2015
The Forever Flowers
Chris Dunn
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Chris Dunn is an English illustrator and gallery artist whose most recent project is a series of watercolor paintings inspired by the classic children’s story The Wind in the Willows. Dunn has a wonderfully finessed style, combining a visceral, tactile realism with a delightful portrayal of his anthropomorphic animal protagonists. There is a warmth and […]
Chris Dunn is an English illustrator and gallery artist whose most recent project is a series of watercolor paintings inspired by the classic children’s story The Wind in the Willows. Dunn has a wonderfully finessed style, combining a visceral, tactile realism with a delightful portrayal of his anthropomorphic animal protagonists. There is a warmth and […]
12 December 2015
03 December 2015
30 November 2015
25 November 2015
Gabba Gabba Hey!
Summary: I share some of my process creating a faux Rolling Stone magazine cover of the Ramones. Giclee prints of the image are also made available! One of the assignments for my MFA program is that we are asked to create an illustration by look back into illustration history and finding an artist whom we admire, then we […]
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11 November 2015
A Revolution of the Palette at Norton Simon
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Though it had been slowing expanding over the centuries, the range of paint colors available to artists increased most dramatically in the 19th century, when a number of new synthetic pigments began to come into production, partly as a result of the industrial revolution. Prior to that, new color discoveries were few and scattered, and […]
Though it had been slowing expanding over the centuries, the range of paint colors available to artists increased most dramatically in the 19th century, when a number of new synthetic pigments began to come into production, partly as a result of the industrial revolution. Prior to that, new color discoveries were few and scattered, and […]
04 November 2015
Michael Robear
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The watercolors of northeastern Maryland artist Michael Robear would be striking enough in any context — crisply rendered in muted palettes, with intriguing narrative elements bordering on magic realism — but they are particularly arresting in their individualized sculptural frames. In addition to being a painter, Robear is a sculptural metalworker and also works with […]
The watercolors of northeastern Maryland artist Michael Robear would be striking enough in any context — crisply rendered in muted palettes, with intriguing narrative elements bordering on magic realism — but they are particularly arresting in their individualized sculptural frames. In addition to being a painter, Robear is a sculptural metalworker and also works with […]
28 October 2015
Drawings and Prints from the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibitions subtitled “Selections from the Permanent Collection” never sound dramatic, but shows of master drawings from collections like those of the Met (or the Morgan Library or the National Gallery) are actually rare treasures. Drawings and prints are considered delicate, subject to light […]
Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibitions subtitled “Selections from the Permanent Collection” never sound dramatic, but shows of master drawings from collections like those of the Met (or the Morgan Library or the National Gallery) are actually rare treasures. Drawings and prints are considered delicate, subject to light […]
SCBWI Fall Bulletin: Writing in the margins about working for free
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Hello my friends – I am always pleased to get the latest copy of the SCBWI Bulletin in the mail. Even just opening the envelope to see and be delighted by the cover art is a treat. It never fails to disappoint. But this time around it was especially sweet to flip ahead and see […]
Hello my friends – I am always pleased to get the latest copy of the SCBWI Bulletin in the mail. Even just opening the envelope to see and be delighted by the cover art is a treat. It never fails to disappoint. But this time around it was especially sweet to flip ahead and see […]
26 October 2015
25 October 2015
8 (Other) Occasions To Send Postcards That Promote Your Art
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Today we take time out to honor the humble, under-utilized, centuries-old, low-tech postcard.
Why spend virtual ink on such an old-fashioned method of communication? Because postcards can do what email cannot do.
Postcards can’t be targeted as spam by an aggressive filter.
Postcards can’t be accidentally (or purposefully) deleted by recipients.
Postcards are likely to be tacked to a refrigerator or kept as a memento.
Postcards are tactile. We can hold them in our hands and ponder them. They have the potential to delight, which is something we rarely say about email these days.
You, like the private clients I advise, would benefit from sending three or four postcards a year.
Postcards are most often used to invite people to an upcoming exhibition or open studio.
Some artists design a single postcard with a schedule of all upcoming shows they’re participating in.
But if you don’t have an upcoming exhibition, you might wonder what you’d say on a postcard or why you’d send one in the first place.
Here are 8 other occasions for using postcards to promote your art and build relationships with your list.
21 October 2015
20 October 2015
19 October 2015
ILLUSTRATORS' PARTNERSHIP ORPHAN WORKS BLOG: Google Prevails in Copyright Lawsuit
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16 October 2015
Arthur Melville
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Though he was also accomplished in oil, 19th century Scottish painter Arthur Melville is know in particular for his unique and influential style of watercolor painting. Melville’s approach was radical and very different from the mainstream of British watercolorists at the time. Though he worked in transparent watercolor, Melville painted on specially prepared paper which […]
Though he was also accomplished in oil, 19th century Scottish painter Arthur Melville is know in particular for his unique and influential style of watercolor painting. Melville’s approach was radical and very different from the mainstream of British watercolorists at the time. Though he worked in transparent watercolor, Melville painted on specially prepared paper which […]
Eye Candy for Today: Ingres graphite portrait of Mme. Lethière
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Madame Alexandre Lethière and Her Daughter Letizia, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Graphite on paper, roughly 11×9 in (30×22 cm); in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the image. Another of Ingres’ marvelous pencil portraits in which the delicately attentive portrait is set off by his seemingly casual sketch of […]
Madame Alexandre Lethière and Her Daughter Letizia, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Graphite on paper, roughly 11×9 in (30×22 cm); in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the image. Another of Ingres’ marvelous pencil portraits in which the delicately attentive portrait is set off by his seemingly casual sketch of […]
14 October 2015
#clouds #studio #nature (at 17th Avenue Studios)
#clouds #studio #nature (at 17th Avenue Studios)
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12 October 2015
10 October 2015
07 October 2015
Eye Candy for Today: Botticelli idealized portrait
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Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph), Sandro Botticelli Tempera on wood panel, 32×21 in (82×54 cm) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt. There is also an article devoted to the painting on Wikipedia. This exquisite […]
Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph), Sandro Botticelli Tempera on wood panel, 32×21 in (82×54 cm) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt. There is also an article devoted to the painting on Wikipedia. This exquisite […]
Gwelf Travel Update - The Teasel Leaf Tavern
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06 October 2015
30 September 2015
29 September 2015
Illustrating “The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True”
Summary: This blog post covers a book project that I worked on from the end of 2014 to the beginning of 2105. I was hired to create a cover illustration and a number of black and white interior illustrations for the book The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True.
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27 September 2015
Roy G. Krenkel’s illustrations for Tales of Three Planets, at The Golden Age
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You can see a series of thumbnails for the cover, the final drawing and cover layout for the book, and the interior illustrations.
You can see a series of thumbnails for the cover, the final drawing and cover layout for the book, and the interior illustrations.
07 September 2015
01 September 2015
Weekly Wabi-Sabi Sketches for the Month of August
A collection of my weekly sketches for the month of August.
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31 August 2015
29 August 2015
24 August 2015
17 August 2015
16 August 2015
12 August 2015
CF Payne's and Gary Kelley's Class
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So last week I took a class from CF Payne and Gary Kelley, and it was so much fun! We learned how to make monotypes and how to create some cool textures using Payne's watercolor/oil/acrylic/pencil technique. This was my shot at using his process to make a pic.
Milind Mulick
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Milind Mmulick is a painter based in Pune, India, who paints in watercolor, primarily transparent, but also works with opaque watercolor (gouache). He often takes a nicely textural approach when portraying cityscapes and landscapes, conveying the gritty feeling of paving stones and weathered walls with passages of dry brush and spatter. He uses both muted […]
Milind Mmulick is a painter based in Pune, India, who paints in watercolor, primarily transparent, but also works with opaque watercolor (gouache). He often takes a nicely textural approach when portraying cityscapes and landscapes, conveying the gritty feeling of paving stones and weathered walls with passages of dry brush and spatter. He uses both muted […]
11 August 2015
Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt townscape drawing
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Stadspoort, Rembrandt Harmenz van Rijn In the collection of the Rijksmuseum; pen and brown ink, with wash; roughly 5 x 7 inches (138×196 mm). You will sometimes hear those writing about art, myself included, use the phrase economy of notation. If you were to look up that phrase in my personal dictionary, the definition would […]
Stadspoort, Rembrandt Harmenz van Rijn In the collection of the Rijksmuseum; pen and brown ink, with wash; roughly 5 x 7 inches (138×196 mm). You will sometimes hear those writing about art, myself included, use the phrase economy of notation. If you were to look up that phrase in my personal dictionary, the definition would […]
infra:REAL – The Art of Imaginative Realism
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“infra:REAL – The Art of Imaginative Realism” is a group exhibition of what is often referred to as “fantastic art”, a field that borders on fantasy and science fiction illustration on one side, and the gallery art traditions of Surrealism, Magic Realism and “Fairie Art” on the other. In most cases there is a strong […]
“infra:REAL – The Art of Imaginative Realism” is a group exhibition of what is often referred to as “fantastic art”, a field that borders on fantasy and science fiction illustration on one side, and the gallery art traditions of Surrealism, Magic Realism and “Fairie Art” on the other. In most cases there is a strong […]
The World’s Languages, Visualized
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The South China Morning Post recently published an infographic that colorfully illustrates the distribution of the world’s most commonly spoken languages. With data taken from Ethnologue and UNESCO, among other sources, the graphic offers a variety of ways to understand global language patterns – from visualizing which languages have the largest number of native speakers, [...]
The South China Morning Post recently published an infographic that colorfully illustrates the distribution of the world’s most commonly spoken languages. With data taken from Ethnologue and UNESCO, among other sources, the graphic offers a variety of ways to understand global language patterns – from visualizing which languages have the largest number of native speakers, [...]
09 August 2015
04 August 2015
The Boyler Kat; Process Pics
The Boyler Kat a illustrated response to my MFA related New York City visit last November. These are some some pictures from the creative process.
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28 July 2015
26 July 2015
25 July 2015
Eye Candy for Today; Harry Fenn ink drawing
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Present Aspect of Gaines’s Mill, Looking East; Harry Fenn Link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Clear observation and crisp, textural rendering give Fenn’s drawing of a brick-walled mill and nearby wooden houses a tactile sense of presence and […]
Present Aspect of Gaines’s Mill, Looking East; Harry Fenn Link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Clear observation and crisp, textural rendering give Fenn’s drawing of a brick-walled mill and nearby wooden houses a tactile sense of presence and […]
23 July 2015
21 July 2015
20 July 2015
19 July 2015
Sleepy San Francisco Squirrel
Greetings, I want to share a recent illustration that completed for my MFA program. The program has us traveling around the country for different contact periods twice a year, spring and fall. We always return to home base which is the Hartford Univeristy in Connecticut in the summer time. Last fall we traveled to New York […]
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29 June 2015
Illustrations and Comic art : Giraffe and Elephant
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New Watercolour - Sprite in the Open
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Reduce the Boring Factor: Add Variety to Your Marketing Message
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No more repetitive emails, please.
Your art exhibition, class, workshop, or event has so many facets that there is no reason to send the same emails and social media posts for your promotions. They get a little stale after awhile.
Years ago, Marcia Yudkin wrote a guest post for me on this topic. It was an article she originally wrote for her readers that got me interested.
I still think about that article and keep that list as a reference. It’s time to revisit its premise for you, my artist readers.
Here are plenty of ways to promote your exhibition, event, or teaching.
Many of these suggestions lend themselves to emails. Others could easily be used on social media. Use your noggin to decide.
Exhibition or Event Enticements
Rotate images of your art with short 2- or 3-sentence stories for each.
Do this for two reasons: 1) people are more likely to get excited about a show when they know what they’ll see and
29 May 2015
More inky beginnings! #studio #bookart #Sketch #drawing #ink...
More inky beginnings! #studio #bookart #Sketch #drawing #ink #illustration #poetry #bordercollie #dog (at 17th Avenue Studios)
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24 May 2015
How an #ink #drawing starts. #Sketch #studio #bookart (at 17th...
How an #ink #drawing starts. #Sketch #studio #bookart (at 17th Avenue Studios)
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22 May 2015
Progress Report On My Mosaic For The Bascilica in Knock, County Mayo
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15 May 2015
Eye Candy for Today: Eakins’ Concert Singer
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The Concert Singer, Thomas Eakins Link is to zoomable version on Google art Project; downloadble file in Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There is an article on the painting on Wikipedia. This striking portrait by Thomas Eakins is here in Philadelphia, where I’ve had the pleasure of studying it many […]
The Concert Singer, Thomas Eakins Link is to zoomable version on Google art Project; downloadble file in Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There is an article on the painting on Wikipedia. This striking portrait by Thomas Eakins is here in Philadelphia, where I’ve had the pleasure of studying it many […]
10 May 2015
08 May 2015
8 of the Biggest Mistakes Artists Make in their Art Careers
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You might be making mistakes in your art business that are holding you back from big growth.
Mistakes aren’t bad, and I don’t want you to feel like you have to be perfect in everything you do because seeking perfection is a sure way to be paralyzed by fear. We have to make mistakes in order to learn and to grow.
Mistakes are only detrimental if you keep repeating them without learning and correcting your ways.
Are you making any of these mistakes?
1. Not knowing where you want to go with your career.I’m not talking about the need to have a specific plan, but I’ve noticed how few artists, especially when they’re just starting out, don’t “get” that running a business is serious stuff. You’re no longer making art for pure pleasure.
Everything changes when you start asking for money in return for your talents. For some artists, it changes for the better and you’re fired up to get your art out there. Other artists can’t stomach the pressure and lose all interest in making art. They can’t seem to get into the studio.
07 May 2015
Figure Drawing Using The Buddy System
A friend and I use the buddy system to get ourselves out to a local life drawing session, and I show my sketches. It’s great to get out to a life drawing session. It is a bit like going to the gym in that I find it helps to keep my hands and eyes in shape. Just […]
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05 May 2015
04 May 2015
Mr. Badger makes a visit to the MacDougall’s in Mythwood
Recently I decided to follow Mr. Badger along as he paid a visit to a friend in Mythwood.
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