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 done for her friends, she doesn’t have a website and send candy wrapped in lottos and bacon to her dear friend Pati.” (If you couldn’t …
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 I taught the same activity and instead of ending up with a blue bird that went through a quest to find a bowler hat, I …
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 doodle absentmindedly on the brown paper. At first it was just to show them how well oil pastels blend together, but as they started to …
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 the Idea Blog is at the center of it. This makes sense, I’ve been told, since the blog is what I update most constantly while …
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 family. My mother is a technical theater director at a K-12 school and as such does a bunch of shows every year. This year she …
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, procrastinate from English homework by doing history homework and on and on, but it also works surprisingly well on other projects. For example, my book. …
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 Art by Steven Pressfield, an interesting book, and managed to also work on my own book. But towards te end of the day I needed …
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 complete rough draft of my book so I have a lot to get done between now and then. Tonight, however, was not a night for …
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. Originally it was the opening of the book but now, in an attempt to reach more people, it’s just the opening of a section. …
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 to Boston I spent some time looking for figure drawing classes that I could take part in. I went to a could drop-in pay $10 …