Dozens of elfin men with braided beards and top knots (each uniquely coiffed) scurrying through a dense mushroom forest laden heavily in places with dangerous brier, each carrying a scroll and quill pen, mumbling, “How and Why? How and Why?” Most of the little men blunder,...
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“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will...
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So much has been written about art and aesthetics over the years by poets, scholars and artists, that there is probably little, if anything original, left to be said. The only perspective remaining is that of the contemporary artist speaking in his or her own time based on...
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For many years I had a quote hanging in my studio by Golden Age artist/illustrator, N.C. Wyeth: “Let the motive for action be in the action itself and not in the results.” I wanted my students to get it. I wanted to get it. Don’t...
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Nothing was working. I’d done several drawings with absolutely no life in them and finally walked out on the deck in my bathrobe to sketch one of my wife’s beautiful roses. ...
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Some mornings l wake up with the urge to draw something- anything– and I’m not satisfied until I’ve done just that. The subject matter doesn’t seem to be important, though it does help if it piques my interest in one way or another. I try...
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