This silk painting, “Garden of Eden” was one I did for the United Nations World Food Summit. It represents first fruits, abundance, growth and peace – perfect sentiments to greet the new year with. Here’s to a new year – 2012 – full of new projects, new drawings, and new life. Happy 2012!
View post →Happy holidays, everyone. And best wishes for 2012!
View post →I will be interviewed live today, Wednesday November 23, on the program, “Creative Mojo with Mark Lipinski.” We’ll be talking about creativity in general, and our Studio 1482 book in particular: One Drawing A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration and Mixed Media. Looking forward to the interview, hope you’ll tune in! It […]
View post →Review for One Drawing A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration and Mixed Media: “Beginning and experienced artists alike will find that this highly accessible book can boost motivation, strengthen discipline, or even jump-start creativity during a block.‗ Library Journal, Oct. 2011  The Studio 1482 One Drawing A Day book is out, and […]
View post →Yesterday afternoon was clear and cool and the perfect day to go downtown and make some drawings of the march to support the Wall Street occupiers. The marchers met in front of the courthouse and walked down to City Hall to show their support for the activists who are occupying Wall Street, representing the 99% […]
View post →I have such a back log of drawing and writing to post on this blog I don’t know where to start! So rather than go back to last summer’s trip to Spain, I’ll start with my most recent adventure and work my way back. With a few current posts along the way. Just last month, […]
View post →Only ten years ago – a lifetime, really – two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City and  changed the lives of everyone who lived there. The events of September 11, 2001 have had a profound effect upon the United States and by extension, world events. But I will always remember […]
View post →I’ve just received my advance copy of One Drawing A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity With Illustration and Mixed Media and I’m very excited about it! The book features my work and the work of the other seven illustrators of Studio 1482. It also reprints the text from their original posts and adds exercises […]
View post →At the end of June, Jon Gerberg, a reporter I met while drawing the Egyptian Solidarity rally (see post HERE) came with two colleagues and interviewed me for the Brooklyn Independent Television program, “Caught in the Act.” The show profiles artists who live or work in Brooklyn. It was great fun to have them all in […]
View post →I’m back from the wonderful city of Paris, and I had such an amazing time as the nominee for Canson North America to their annual Prix Canson. The Prix Canson aims to discover and support the work of artists through their Fund for Art and Paper. While I didn’t win the prix – that honor […]
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