Easel Action: Acrylic Painting of Three Masked Figures
The evolution on the easel continues, and it’s clear that my regular drawing helps when I go to pick up the brush.
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Sketchbook: Experimenting with Washes in My Drawings
I’ve been colouring in my drawings with Sharpies lately. This worked in my sketchbooks, but when I tried to Sharpie in my drawings on some bookkeeping paper, I didn’t quite like the look. So, I decided to try using a wash to add colour… Not that I necessarily know what I’m doing.
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Thinking About My Influences, with Modigliani in the Mix
Last night, I pulled one of my books about Modigliani off my shelf to read before bed. My collection of art books is small (but hearty), yet somehow I managed to end up with two Modigliani books. Anyway, when I sat down to do my daily draw this morning, it was natural that I’d add this to the mix.
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Smear Job: A Very Simple Trick for Preventing Your Ink from Smudging
Smudged ink is the bane of every illustrator’s existence! Every artist knows this. But other than waiting for the your ink to TOTALLY dry before you start adding colour, what can you do? YouTuber and illustrator Draw Ninja KC, though, came up with a hot idea.
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Easel Action: Acrylic Painting of a Masked Figure, with Skateboard
In past posts, I wrote about how my influences are coming out in my sketchbooks. I’ve been working on turning some of those drawings into paintings. Painting doesn’t come naturally to me. It’s one off those areas of my art practice where taking a real art class might come in handy, but I honestly prefer to learn as I go. So, what am I learning?
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Sketchbook: Playing with Narrative and Collapsed Time
In a previous post, I mentioned how I was drawing inspiration from medieval European religious art. Some tropes, like robes and golden halos are easy spot. But, I am also exploring the way in which medieval art collapses narrative space and time into a single image. It’s honestly, one of my favourite parts of era’s art.
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Pause Music EP – Synthy Nostalgia Videogame Tunes
I have a musical project brewing called Oh!Noverdrive!. It started out as a sort of mental escape while I was recovering from some workplace burnout. But like all things I start, it grew and spread in interesting directions.
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Digital Sketchbook: Me vs. Calder vs. O’Keefe in Procreate
I splurged on some new Procreate brushes after Christmas. Among the sets I picked up, were some inspired by Alexander Calder and Georgia O’Keeffe.
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Enter OH!NOverdrive!: Art Making, Play, and Recovery
I’ve been working on a new electronic music and multimedia project: OH!NOverdrive! I think you’ll enjoy it when it’s ready. In the meantime, it has me thinking of how I started creating it and how it gave me time to think (or not think) when I clearly needed to.
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