For the past 4 months, I have been meeting weekly with four of my friends and my wife to develop a screenplay. That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, but it has been a really great process. Three members of our group have screenwriting experience, so the rest of us are playing catch-up. It has ...
I worked a bit on refining the Richard Neutra and Julius Shulman graphics for my California Modern series, but I've been crazy busy at work (more on that later). Last time I shared this project I got some really great feedback. I tried to make changes accordingly, but there's still a gap in knowing what ...
I couldn't think of anything to draw tonight, and I found myself rummaging through an old portfolio from when I was a kid. In a previous post, I mentioned that my grandma gave me a set of chalk pastels for my 8th birthday. Along with the pastels, she gave me a beginner's guide to using ...
This week we made our annual pilgrimage to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. The cool spring climate here in the northwest is perfect for tulip farmers, so the valley is covered with acres of tulips. It really makes up for all the gray that we see in the winter here. I took a bunch of photos and ...
I used to draw in a tiny little sketch book, then I started using quarter sheets of Arches, then half sheets, then full sheets, then poster sized drawing pads. Now it's just getting out of hand. Every night this week after the kids go to bed, I pull out a 4'x4' piece of particle board ...
This winter has been really long in Seattle. Last week we started to thaw out, and I got really excited to spend more time at Lake Washington. We live a few blocks from the lake and my sailboard is ready to go if we get a sunny day with a breeze. I was looking for some ...
I just bought the new Paper app, and it has been really fun to mess around with. I wanted to do a series of graphics on how to sharpen a pencil with a knife, but I started getting frustrated with the tool. I'm torn because I love the simplicity of the UI, but I still ...
I had a crazy week, so I'm a few days late with my post. Yesterday we had a "No-Rules" Pinewood Derby at our church. In past years people have tried compressed air, CO2, rubberbands, and other high tech ways to propel their cars. Instead of getting wrapped up in an arms race, I decided to ...
I decided to try the old art school exercise of drawing eggs in a white bowl with a single light source. Apparently if you can master drawing an egg, you can draw human skin like a pro. I also learned recently that the way I hold a pencil is all wrong. Maybe I'll do a ...
Yesterday was Pi Day, so I celebrated by baking the traditional round dessert with a similar name. This month's design challenge was to make something bicycle-related, so I decided to kill two birds with one stone. Here is my Blueberry Piecycle. I have celiac disease, so this is a gluten-free pie crust. Rice flour is really crumbly, ...