The web is a beautiful thing. Bits and pieces of one’s creative past, for good or for ill, can resurface out of the ether and provide amusement and a sense of perspective.
As it turns out, over 80 years worth of student newspapers from Davidson College, my alma matter, have been saved in [...]
Recently my friend and colleague Chuck Lampe was cleaning a family antique mirror and discovered a sizable piece of history within the backing — several pages of the March 25, 1963 edition of the Peoria (Illinois) Journal Star. In addition to being a great “slice of life” document (from a day when nothing [...]
Nothing like a clean studio to freshen the perspective. Also on the personal agenda: cleaning the palette, refreshing the paints.
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Surprises were many during last week’s trip to the coast of New Jersey. The central theme of this expedition, as it turns out, was “reality vs. expectation”; I went to New Jersey anticipating the clichés, (dirty cities, dirty oceans, decay, rude people) and found almost the reverse to be true. Asbury Park [...]
The-best-thing-Ted-Turner-ever-did-and-maybe-the-best-thing-on-cable-network,a.k.a Turner Classic Movies, will be showcasing a new documentary about the late, great Chuck Jones this week. To the uninitiated, Jones is the genuius creator/director behind Bugs Bunny, Pepe Le Pew, and almost all of the Warner Bros. cartoons world.
Imagine a world without “What’s Opera, Doc?”. Personally, I don’t wanna. [...]
Update in the Drawings section– some recent charcoal and conte works, on toned paper. Any and all are available for purchase… just ask!
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We’ve got a new look, and new images of my paintings to boot… visit the paintings section for a look at work spanning the latter half of ‘08 and into last week.
New drawings will follow soon. Remember to contact me if you have any commercial interests, aka, you wanna buy somephin’. [...]
As you may be able to tell, it’s been a painfully long time since my last post– over a year!
Let me make a solemn vow, here and now– a somewhat more clued-in version of my artsy blog has arrived (cue crowd cheers and jeers). In a stroke of gadget-fixation, quite out of character [...]
This past couple of weeks have been full of activity (work, painting, work, painting,) but at least a few days were spent leisure-like in Charleston, S.C. The delights there are many, in particular for the arts minded; the act of strolling, in itself, is a kind of cultural escape, given Charleston’s mise-en-scene. I [...]
