For the next week or so, I’ll be sharing the story of the making of six recent paintings that will be appearing in the upcoming October issu...

Short answer: To support my blogging habit. Long answer (adapted from the introduction): Because it needed to be written. The book explo...

A fun challenge for creature designers is to create a whole new being that is halfway between a human and something else. Mythology is full ...

If you would like to watch five artists on a high wire act, come to New York City a week from tomorrow. At the Society of Illustrators, fiv...

I read somewhere that Beethoven worked on his fifth and sixth symphonies side by side, switching back and forth between dark drama and pasto...

My next job was to die a thousand deaths. I had to act out the parts of all the sailors in various conditions of leaping, swimming, nursi...

This is the second part of the story of the making of the Cumberland painting. With all this background information, I began visualizing t...

For the next few days, I’ll be giving you a detailed, blow-by-blow tour of the making of a complex Civil War painting called the “Sinking of...

In 1992, when I was in the middle of a booksigning in LA, a guy said came up to me and said, “Hey, if you’re not doing anything tonight, do ...