May 14, Erin’s Something
These drawings by Erin are another submission that I got through a friend and so I can’t claim to know Erin herself. However, I was informed that the drawings “were …
Idea No. 134: The Pink Elephants
the idea: create a pink elephant as an example for the puppet project You may or may not remember, but a few ideas back I had another puppet named Feathers. Today …
Idea No. 132: A Collaborative Flower
the idea: make a drawing with a student Last week I was teaching a class where we were using oil pastels and as the children began to draw I started to …
Idea No. 128: IDEA not saga
the idea: re-draw the word “idea” in the header so that it doesn’t look like “saga” I have spent a fair amount of time recently redesigning my website so that …
Idea No. 105: Draw the Jungle
the idea: draw the background for a poster promoting my mother’s student’s version of the Jungle Book This is the type of thing that happens when you come from a creative …
Idea No. 96: Shoot for the Trees
the idea: create an scene out of pen sketching I continued my favorite form of procrastination today: working on another part of the project. This worked really well in college, …
Idea No. 93: Draw Something
the idea: draw something Snow has struck Boston yet again, leaving me housebound for the day. For the most part, this was lovely. I read the entirety of the War of …
Idea No. 92: Trial and Sketch
the idea: sketch to find an illustration style for my book I’ve been writing a lot recently, or at least trying to. I’ve set my deadline as March 21st for a …
Idea No. 72: The Pencil Problem
the idea: write about the problem of the pencil This is one of the sections in my master’s thesis, Don’t Make Art, Just Make Something, at a very early draft. …
Idea No. 22: Figure Drawing a Painter
Although drawing and I have a rocky relationship, I have always loved figure drawing. Particularly gestural figure drawing done with charcoal (what a surprise, I know). When I first moved …