Entries by johnmanders

Books make great gifts!

The Really Awful Musicians is included in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette holiday gift guide!  h/t: Karen If you’re a Pittsburgher out shopping Saturday, please swing by Barnes & Noble Cranberry 11:00 – noon where I’ll be reading, painting and signing. Saturday evening I’ll sign copies of The Really Awful Musicians at Saint Paul’s Synod Hall in […]

Getting ready for Hanging Day

We’ve got big street-level display windows in the Graffiti Gallery, and I’ll be filling them with some bigger-than-life-sized figures from The Really Awful Musicians.  Rachel the Intern has been busy painting them on largish chunks of fome-core board. Don’t forget—The Really Awful Musicians exhibit opens this Saturday, December 3rd.  There’s be a kids’ reception from […]

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Color for the characters

The Really Awful Musicians has a cast of characters who appear throughout the story.  It’s important for me to decide on the colors for their costumes before I start painting the final illustrations.  This color sketch is a reference tool that makes it easy to keep the color consistent.