Art
It’s 9:18 p.m. as I write this, and there’s a two-year-old sitting in the middle of the living room watching Dora on the iPad. The switch to standard time on Sunday should’ve crushed her little toddler internal clock, which should’ve had her fast asleep something like two hours ago. Yeah, that didn’t work. Four posts [...]
What I’m Pre-Ordering Amazon has pre-orders listed for two more hardcover reprints of Andrew Loomis’ art instruction books that were originally published in the 1940s – Creative Illustration coming next week, and Fun with a Pencil coming in April of 2013. I’ve picked up the first three Loomis reprints so far – Figure Drawing for All It’s [...]
What I’m Buying This morning, a friend in Minneapolis helped me complete one of the great Internet bargains of all time, in my estimation. I was able to score an enormous lot of 250 double-ended Prismacolor art markers for only $100 from a seller on CraigsList. The lot included Prismacolor’s biggest set of 156 markers [...]
I seem to be falling into a once-a-week pattern with ab.com at this point; honestly, I’m not sure I’ve got more than a post a week in me at this point. What I’m Studying I’m a couple of weeks into grad school for the fall; I think it’s going OK so far. Not great, but [...]
Helen’s Big Adventure Helen had quite the afternoon adventure. Here’s the background. Melissa lined up our go-to babysitter to keep an eye on Millie this afternoon so she could go to school and do some prep work for fall startup. Helen was at Mel’s parents’ house making cookies that she wants to have for a [...]
Not really. Saturday has been for partying, really. They’re all gone now, but we’ve had people over basically all day. Both of them brought their daughters who are about Helen’s age, so the girls partied in the back yard most of the day, and right now Helen is still in the basement winding down and [...]
What I’m Buying I took the girls to the Sanford Center’s indoor garage sale today; it was pretty fun, and all three of us came away with some loots. I found 11 of what I now know is a 12-volume book set called “Drawings of the Masters” by Bartlett Hayes; two of the books I [...]
Last night I put the finishing touches on my drawing, “Jade 2.0,” which is a redo of a piece I did in college about a bajillion years ago. I have wanted to redo this for a long time, and needing to find a submission for this year’s faculty and staff art show was a pretty [...]
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