Summary: Nameless Toads Playing Cards, Clandestine Notes, and Surprises! And so it was, that on a bright afternoon friend and fellow Foolscap Press owner Larry VanVelzer stopped by the studio to ask me to create a watercolor as a surprise birthday present for his wife and partner Peggy Gotthold. Without hesitation we set about crafting our… Continue Reading
Summary: A Quixotic Journey from Doré to Don Quixote leading to an illustration of Baron Von Münchhausen It was a dark and stormy night. Well, it was dark at least, and I was doing some late night internet ramblings into The Public Domain Review website which a friend had turned me on to. The website is really fun… Continue Reading
Summary: A brief discussion of diabolical draftsmanship and details discovered during the creation of this devilish illustration. Ok, truth time. I listen to the Grateful Dead… a lot. I know a lot of you might be stunned, but I feel like I just need to come clean on this one. Anyway… this project starts with the Grateful Dead song, “Friend… Continue Reading
Summary: I Share a character study and a video of my watercolor painting. Happy New Year! A few of you may have seen via my Instagram or Twitter feed that I was developing a character study for my Sherlock Holmes character. For those who were paying particular attention, you would have noticed that I did it twice! The… Continue Reading
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!… Continue Reading
Summary: Character sketches for a short story that I’m writing and illustrating based on my experiences at Pratt University. While I was in NYC this past November with my Hartford MFA comrades, we got a unique tour of Pratt University. Betsy and Ted Lewin walked us around the campus and showed us the sights. One… Continue Reading
Even in the midst of wrapping up some client work, I am finding some time to continue to develop a story for my MFA thesis. This particular story actually has its roots in a project that I was developing back into thousand and 12! It’s amazing to me to think about the arc of the… Continue Reading
Working in the studio today, devising some new techniques to add to my watercolors to give them more life… I think I’m onto something here!… Continue Reading
Summary: This post is on the theme of color, and explores ideas about developing your own color story. I’ve put together a simple (and free) recipe to cook up your own home brewed color scripts.… Continue Reading
Summary: This post is about some experimentations that can be used to gain a better understanding of color as a narrative tool and on creating a more harmonious color pallet.… Continue Reading
