I just finished this painting recently. It’s acrylic and a little watercolor on paper mounted to a wooden panel. It features a green creature jumping in alarm at the COVID-19
I was trying to figure out what the opposite color of brown was a week ago, and I found this website with a great color tool. I have strong instincts
I wrote in a previous post that Jean-Michel Basquiat didn’t seem to have any fear in his art making process. Maybe in part because he was constantly making things. I
This fox arrived the other day and reminded me of how much I like foxes. They must be my favorite animal (after tigers). I have never met a fox, so
I figured out this very cool thing over the summer. It’s obvious perhaps, but it had never occurred to me before. On our vacation to Acadia National Park, we stayed
What I really need to learn how to do is to shade my illustrations in a convincing way. That’s a large part of why I wanted to learn how to
I went to the RISD Grad Show this weekend. It’s one of the highlights of my year. Here are some of my favorite things (from among the ones that could
I’ve been stalled a bit with my drawing exercises for Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I’m supposed to be drawing the portrait of a real model, and
Dear Readers, What better day than this rainy Monday to begin learning French? While, as you well know, I’m not a fan of the French, I do like their language, and I
Hello dear readers! It is I, your good friend Harriet the rabbit, speaking from beyond the grave. You knew it would happen, didn’t you? I know Mickey knew I wouldn’t
I am also trying to learn how to draw in a realistic way. I have so many line drawings that I’d love to flesh out. To add dimension, shading and
I am trying to learn to paint. One of my favorite artists, Yoshitomo Nara, makes these delicious backgrounds that have so many colors in them, but it’s very subtle. I have
Annie is reading, very slowly, Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 by Marcel Proust.
She is also reading Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein
Mickey is reading The Elevator by Yael Frankel.