If you are illustrating a graphic story, you don’t want your characters just standing around stiff…you want to depict them in as much action as the situation requires. This is visual story telling. Illustrating a graphic story requires an artist … Continue reading
Who and What Inspired Wassily Kandinsky? Wassily Kandinsky was a brilliant, well educated student of life. In 1896, at the age of 30, he was pursuing a promising career as a law and economics instructor. Fortunately for the world of … Continue reading
Sometimes an artist decides to step out of their comfort zone to a much more uncomfortable zone. In my case, from fine art drawing and painting to illustration work. I am in the process of doing graphite drawing works for … Continue reading
Artist do what an artist has to do to reach their goal as an accepted composition. For example, in my composition of “Trail of Tears/Agonizing Spirit,” I drew several depictions of Indians from top of head to bottom of feet. … Continue reading
Having been raised in New Mexico, Southwest Art, Indians, cowboys, ranches, cattle and etc., are common themes when it pertains to art. As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I recently awakened (precisely at 3:00 a.m.) one morning with … Continue reading
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do~Vincent van Gogh As with all his art, Vincent van Gogh brought to his drawings a … Continue reading
I recently posted a blog discussing the different steps I use to finish a painting. By using the steps, it often ends by producing more than one complete work of art for sale. This is the importance of making practice … Continue reading
My latest inspiration is still a work in progress, however the painting is not only not forgotten, it’s beginning to take on a life of it’s own. It’s moving, it’s grooving, and it’s coming alive! Don’t get me wrong, it’s … Continue reading
This genius has a new art project in mind. I left Europe and moved to Miami, Florida in 1992. I was still working in the real world, but I knew when I retired that I wanted to pursue a career … Continue reading
The word drawing seems to be one that many artists and art students use freely, but which no two ever seem to use in quite the same way; and although there are many valuable books, video, art classes and other … Continue reading
