While going through more boxes in storage, I found this Louie & Bruce comic strip among my papers from teaching cartooning to kids years ago … I think it was 1988. I know … I thought I had finished writing about my old strip, but chance and fate had other plans. With Christmas five daysContinue reading A Louie and Bruce Christmas Surprise [comic strip]
Teaching Art Is FUN
Not long after I stopped drawing my Louie and Bruce comic strip, I began teaching art courses to adults and children. One of the youth courses was Drawing Cartoons, so I used my strips as teaching aids during the 6-class course. About halfway through the course, we discussed anthropomorphism—giving human characteristics to animals or inanimateContinue reading Teaching Art Is FUN
Back To the Drawing Board [drawing]
If I were able to go back in time and relive my childhood while keeping the knowledge I have now, I would choose again to be an artist first and a writer second. I was an early and avid reader when I was a child. But I was also and moreover an art lover. Art,Continue reading Back To the Drawing Board [drawing]
New Book Cover for Hellhounds Novel
I took a break from writing today to redo the cover of my Night of the Hellhounds fantasy novel, which features Vree Erickson, my youngest protagonist who has preoccupied my writing time off and on since 2012. I felt especially artistic when I awoke this morning, and having the day to spend as I please,Continue reading New Book Cover for Hellhounds Novel
New Heroine Sketch [character development]
Yesterday I wrote about creating characters, putting them on the story stage, and watching them act. In that post, I included a sketch of my current main character, Vree Erickson. I draw with all sorts of pencils, including charcoal and chalk pencils. I like using watercolor paper to draw on because it allows me toContinue reading New Heroine Sketch [character development]
Sketching Critters
I enjoy watching small animals skittering and dashing about with their daily activities. I have my favorites, like chipmunks and squirrels, that I try to capture with pencil and paper. But lately I have been studying birds more than usual. Although I’m not a bird painter, per se, I have done a few paintings withContinue reading Sketching Critters
Buck: A Pastel Drawing
Still going through old art files and finding old drawings that seem to have been done by another person. I mean, I know I did the artwork and can remember (vaguely at times) doing it, but it seems like I did it in another lifetime. And, I suppose, I did. I am no longer theContinue reading Buck: A Pastel Drawing
Sad Panther Drawing
While going through some old art files, I came across this pen and ink drawing of a black panther drawn February 14, 1982. I was learning the craft of illustration, clearly seen in the clumsiness you see in my execution. Still, it is a nice drawing, which is why I kept it. Also because itContinue reading Sad Panther Drawing
Drawings
I like to draw. Figure drawing, cartooning, doodling … you name it. Graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, various kinds of erasers, markers, styluses. Line drawing, shading, hatching, cross-hatching, broken hatching, stippling, entopic graphomania (you make a dot at the location of each imperfection in the drawingContinue reading Drawings
#tbt 1983 [drawing]
Here is a go at this week’s Throwback Thursday at my Facebook page. The 3 drawings below are some of the best of my art from 1983. Enjoy this peek into my past. Graphite on paper. The cat’s name was Mittens and the Spaniel’s name was Rags. I was studying fur when I drew this.Continue reading #tbt 1983 [drawing]
Throwback Thursday at Facebook [art]
While I have been busy working on my latest book project, I come up for air every few days to post here and at Facebook. Today I posted two events from my past. The first is from 1974; the second is from 1984. It is fun, interesting, and painful to look at works from theContinue reading Throwback Thursday at Facebook [art]
Always Busy Writing and Painting
Anyone following my blog would assume that I’m rarely busy writing or making art, simply because of the lengthy gaps between my posts. But that’s far from the truth. I’m busy every day working on my stories and art, from creating new chapters and editing old material, to sketching in my sketchbooks or actually composingContinue reading Always Busy Writing and Painting
