Carmel Event March 15

Join me in Carmel, CA on Saturday, March 15 from 12:00-2:00 for a presentation and book signing.

I'll be talking about my friendship with Tom Kinkade and how it led to the book "The Artist's Guide to Sketching."

This will be the only public event in the Bay Area for this book (the other events are at art schools and animation studios), and the first time I've done an event at a Thomas Kinkade gallery, which should be an interesting experience for all of us.

Meanwhile in the Shipping Department

The new edition of The Artist's Guide to Sketching releases today, and I want to thank everyone for your enthusiasm and kind words.

We offered copies for sale in our little web store (sorry, USA only) and so many of you wanted signed copies that we had to enlist the help of the whole family to help us pack and ship.

We have already sent out over 800 copies, and many of you have received them, or you will soon.

If you ordered a copy and haven't gotten it yet, here's the update—we're almost caught up and hope to have every order that we receive by today in the mail by the end of this weekend. 

So please hang in there; it will be worth the wait.

WAMC Radio Interview

Northeast Public Radio's Joe Donahue wanted to know this about sketching:

"Do you do it to relax?"
"What do you see that catches your eye?"
"When does a sketch become a painting?"
"How long can you focus on a subject?"
"What do you consider your main work these days?

This is why authors love to be interviewed by Joe Donahue.
He asks questions you can’t prepare for, which makes you think about your topic in a new way.
Link to Interview

Hopping Freight Trains

 New post about riding the rails.

Sargent Wanted his Models to Talk to Him

John S. Sargent, like most portrait artists of his time, insisted that models moved and spoke while they posed, unlike the contemporary practice of having subjects hold dead still. More here.