For a very long time, making art for me consisted of drawing something I was looking at just to see how well I could represent it. The first institutional training I got from an educator was Mr. Hiebert, my sixth grade art teacher. He had a system. For years he cut photos from magazines and...
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Monthly Archives: October 2013
The guy persisted, even though I assured him again and again that I wasn’t qualified. In the end, I relented because of his persistance and the assurance that I didn’t need to be an expert to teach a community recreation class. The subject was “Cartooning” and I was no cartoonist. I came up with a...
Yesterday was a good day. I mean, a really good day. This, coming from a man who knows the meaning of the term. Immersed in my work, I was intoxicated. Mind you, I don’t drink or medicate (except for Damitol, which I sometimes take to counter other people’s abuse of Imbecillan). Art creation involves it’s...
Photo sessions are always a treat for me as an artist because they lead to paintings. If they don’t support a concept that I’m already working on, they give me ideas for new ones. The best shoots are the ones where I’ve prepared a choreography in advance. That’s the word I use to describe the...
I used to worry that it had all been said, seen, heard, and done already. Compared to the course of so many billions human lives, anything I might contribute would be nothing. After the thought, I would go eat or have a great conversation with my close friend and not see the irony. Then I...
