Coles Phillips was a Golden Age illustrator who created illusory shapes as a compositional device, making our brains see what isn’t there. H...

Here are my events for Lightbox Expo in Pasadena a week from now. The rest of the time I'll be wandering around. I look forward to meet...

  We'll be sketching Colossal Characters two weeks from today in Pasadena. Bring a sketchbook and join us, and let’s dream with our eyes...

Welcome Visitors and New Subscribers.  Link to YouTube short video . This Lincoln Town Car looks mysterious to me, like it’s waiting to pick...

Endre Penovác (Serbia, b. 1956) paints cats using a unique wet-into-wet technique.   He uses a wet-in-wet technique, which involves applying...

We're thinking of making stickers to go with the February 25th, 2025 release of  The Artist’s Guide to Sketching . Here are five ideas. ...

Some concepts are so fundamental & deeply ingrained in Western culture that it's hard to see them—including Cartesian dualism, free ...

Life Lessons from Dinosaurs is now available , and Artist's Guide to Sketching can be preordered here.  

Here's part of an advertisement from the Famous Artist School for their correspondence course. The lobster shack with its seagulls, pili...

   New YouTube video about painting calm water from a chaotic roadside.