What is real and what is not, sometimes it’s hard to tell. In our fast-speed digital world, one of the objectives is to make illusions seem real. The more real the impression, the more money it may generate. This we can see in our movies and our games that we purchase. Billions of dollars are [...]
We recognize most people by their faces, yet, faces can tell us so much more than just who a person is. Faces often can tell a story about what is going on inside of a person. The eyes have often been called the windows to the soul. Not so much by what is seen from [...]
Do you want to know how a person really feels about themselves at any particular moment? Just look at the way they sit. It can tell you a lot about that person’s feelings and attitudes. Often I will do gesture drawings. So what is a gesture drawing? Simply, it is capturing the person through doing [...]
Many don’t look to winter as a very structured time but it can be a time of inspiration, discovery and preparation. Everything outside is stripped down to its bare essence. The biggest and most dominate example is our trees and bushes. We see them as structures, their core against the sky. During winter, you can [...]
Sometimes I write in circles, well, that’s not exactly true. Most of the time, I write in circles. I am not a professional writer which is quite evident to those who follow my seven years of weekly rambling. I don’t write for me. I write for the reader so that we can have common ground [...]
With great talent comes the responsibility for using that talent. Some people have a great talent for making money and they have a responsibility not only to use that talent but also in how that money is to be used. If they do not choose wisely, the talent for making money will be forfeited to [...]
I am still learning about myself. I knew that I was and am a highly subjective person. For those who do not know whether they have worked with a subjective or an objective person, let me try to explain a little bit about both. When you ask a subjective person to describe a basement with [...]
A few years back, before I retired, I looked at my many airbrushes I had accumulated as an illustrator and then looked over at my computer with its digital tablet and stylus. I figured my airbrushing on illustrations was over. With Photoshop and Painter programs, the illustration board, gouache paint (a special type of watercolor) [...]
