Category: Drawing

  • Report on a New Drawing Style The artist’s recent work demonstrates a shift toward a simplified, graphic approach that emphasizes clarity and symbolic weight. The essence of this style is distillation: forms are reduced to their most essential outlines, resulting in a visual language that balances legibility with expressive potential. This development was partly prompted…

  • After two years of running my Wonder Wednesday Workshop, I’ve presented on over a hundred artists. These informal artist gatherings have been very informative to my practice as an artist and an art instructor. 1. Fine Art Masters 2. Surrealism and Fantasy 3. Modernism and Abstraction 4. Illustration and Narrative Art 5. Humor, Satire, and…

  • The idea of posting a single piece of art almost seems redundant given I have an Instagram account. However, this piece was asking me to give it a special story. In March of last year I started working at a non-profit organization created to provide enriching art experiences for adults with developmental disabilities. As an…

  • Blogging my artworks have changed since I started using instagram. Back in the day, each of these would have gotten their own post. Now, it would be pretty exhausting to do that. In this post, I’ve screenshotted the instagram posts and collaged them into a single jpeg (for better or worse). So that’s a thing…

  • Below I’ve got some thumbnails (no larger images) of the dot work that I’ve been up to. I made a calendar as well. It’s been fun seeing what I like to do and trying out new pens and papers. I’ve been getting some good feedback about these. It’s nice when people like what you do.

  • I went to my favorite art lounge where to my surprise, they had shrinky dink material and a dedicated oven! More to come. It’s fun seeing the details get smaller and the color become a bit more vibrant.

  • SKAST (some kind of art show thing) 2 I recently was part of a pop-up where I sold some stickers. I had some zines and a few paintings on display as well. I enjoyed meeting the fellow artists in the show and seeing their work. The opening reception had music and hot dogs. The show…

  • Black paper and correction pen (Presto! Jumbo Correction Pen Fine Point Metal Tip) I like the process of this exploration. The dots seem to shimmer. Fun working on different experiments– density, color, radiality, background.