Posted in Personal work, Technique on Aug 26th, 2013
I made this drawing of Macklemore last night after watching a little bit of the MTV VMAs with my daughter. In Photoshop, I used the Threshold command to force all of the pixels to either black or white. I then added a medium gray background tone. Hiding the other layers and temporarily flattening the image, I [...]
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Posted in Personal work on Mar 15th, 2013
This is an ink drawing for my Mail Me Art 3 submission, due in the mail tomorrow. It began as a portrait of Bob Cooper but ended up looking more like Keith Olbermann. I used Dr. Martin’s Black Star Matte India Ink with a Nikko G-pen nib.
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Posted in Personal work on May 14th, 2012
Posted in Personal work on Jan 2nd, 2012
Posted in Personal work, Sketches on Jun 9th, 2011
Posted in Personal work, Sketches on Jan 27th, 2011
Abbey Lincoln passed away last April; here’s her NYTimes obit and a clip of her on The Steve Allen Show. This is another play with gouache and ink, with some Mr. Ted drops.
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