It's been a busy week, but I managed to fill a few pages with more car drawings for iStock. I'll get these finished up and uploaded later this week.
Doodles on FIRE
This is by no means a comprehensive product/app review, but i just got a Kindle Fire and quickly loaded it with Autodesk's SketchBook Mobile. Above is one of the first drawings that I did on the device in a style I use for my iStock illustrations. I wanted to see how it stacks up to ...
Thinking Green
I have a folder at work of great starts to projects that never really take off. This is one of them. I'm always trying to infuse more design into the literature that we put out. A lot of the work of a labor union is very fast paced and the lit we produce is full ...
Traffic Jam
I've been wanting to get back to drawing and illustration again lately. My son created a great opportunity for me to do so last weekend. He was playing with his cars on the sunny front porch and asked me to join him. We spent a nice afternoon, collecting, arranging and sketching cars. I compiled the ...
Spring Break
I spent a few days off with the family in Westport, WA enjoying the beach and not thinking about much of anything. This week is another pic dump. There were some gorgeous sunsets and cute kids and terrific picture taking opportunities. I tried different settings on the Hipstamatic this time just to see how they ...
Commute
Just a quickie today. This is a photo series taken during my hour long commute from a meeting I had in Seattle yesterday. No crashes this time, but a couple of close calls. I decided not to edit at this point - curious what I could capture with out actually looking through the lens.
The Garden Project II
I spent another great day with my art students getting our class project ready for the auction. I had a blast as usual. We started by building a quick landscape out of construction paper. Next was another session of flower drawing. I took it all home and began cutting out the flowers and making an ...
The garden project
The next project I am working on with my art class is an item for the annual auction. This year is a garden theme. I thought it would be fun to build a large image with the class using their drawings. My plan is to have them create a background landscape with torn paper and ...
Self-Portrait
I've been thinking a lot about drawing lately. About how I do it now when I can in my sketchbook while the kids play or the wife is watching her shows. Over time it's become less frequent, more removed from real life and cleaner. It's a stark contrast from how I used to do it. ...
Franz Marc Art Lesson
I had a great time teaching art this week at son's first grade class. The lesson was based on Franz Marc's The Lamb. We had a great discussion before getting started trying to figure out what the painting was about. I love leading art criticism in class and am always amazed by the insight that ...