Working on a flat table when drawing or painting is evil on your neck and back. Having a drafting table that tilts is much better ergonomically and it also allows for a better perspective of your work.
I use a beautiful rubber wood drafting table and prefer it being set at max tilt. The problems I have with it is that I have to keep my tools on an adjacent desk or shelf. That's not efficient. I also have nowhere to set an iPad that it doesn't slide down the table top.
Read MoreI called him Dad. Other people who knew him called him Colonel - the rank he earned during a very long career in the Army including several tours of Vietnam, Grenada and other deployments.
He was in great physical heath and extremely active for a man in his late 70’s. He had even climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro about 10 years ago. Needless to say It was a shock to us when I got the call that he was involved in a freak accident at the gym. He passed away a few days later in April of 2019, just shy of his 78th birthday.
Read MoreOne of the most painful experiences is losing a dog. A companion and best friend. Brie passed away last weekend and friends of her family commissioned a small watercolor of her sleeping.
Read MoreI needed a place to hang studies for projects I'm working on, sketches, or a place to hang paintings to dry. I didn't want to put up something huge and hideous on the freshly painted walls and certainly didn't want to put too many nails in the drywall. Taping them up never turns out good.
I reached out to a carpenter friend and he dropped off some scraps of pine and cedar planks that had a nice rough surface like barn wood.
Read MoreI typically don't get involved in monthly challenges but Inktober sounded like a good idea. I sketch almost daily anyway and so I silently took it on head first. Inspiration might have come from some amazing ballpoint pen work from the likes of Guno Park and Nicolas Sanchez and I just didn't know how to handle a ballpoint pen in that manner. I started the month trying to figure out what I was going to draw but wildlife ended up being the theme. I'm comfortable in that subject matter. What follows is what I learned from a month's worth of ink drawings.
Read MoreI’m continuing to have a lot of fun with Inktober and will be doing a post later this week on what I have learned through the challenge.
Read MoreThis post was pulled from web archives from a site that I pulled down years ago but it still relevant today.
Friday, June 11th 2010, I made a public announcement on Twitter
and Facebook about some news that has dramatically changed my life for the better and a lot of friends immediately asked me for more context. I started to write this narrative in great detail and then decided to just keep it a little more simple. Sorry if it’s still too long of a read!
If memory serves me well, around age eight or nine I was told by my parents that I had been adopted at birth. My childhood was good. I cannot complain in that department but there has always been something missing. I think there’s a blood bond that needs to be reconnected. As far back as I can remember, I wondered about my birth mother. Things like, where I got my artistic abilities and more importantly, did she think about me. Was she that nice woman running the register in the checkout line?
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