Rhonda Libbey is a talented friend of mine—she’s pulled my carcass out of more than one scrape by helping me paint illustrations. Please swing by her blog to see her lovely character sketches for the Doctor Ferretstein Project.
I was sure sorry to read about this—it looks like Frank Frazetta’s kid tried to burgle the gallery.
Here are the last of the work-in-progress shots from a painting featured in What do I paint first? and What do I paint second?
Illustrator Kelly Light writes a thoughtful essay about encouraging kids to read. And how do you do that, without making it seem like an obligation? She has a daughter, so her recommended reading is girl-oriented. I should get myself together and compile a list of the boy-oriented books that shaped my childhood. I’m lucky—I come […]
I just received a book in the mail—a copy of The Year Without a Santa Claus by Phyllis McGinley, with illustrations by Kurt Werth. The J.B. Lippincott Company published this title in 1956. This was the poem that inspired the animated TV special from the 1970s. But what to my wondering eyes should appear—is Santa […]
Here are sketches for a strange little project I did for Silver Editions, a textbook publisher.
Update: Welcome, Bittersweet Harvest readers! Now that it’s December, I’m wistfully recalling the first hot weekend of last Spring, the one I used as an excuse to paint outdoors. I created some surface decoration on this wooden bookcase, to be auctioned off at a charity event for Beginning With Books. I chose for my theme: […]
C.S. Lewis, the Narnia author and theologian, put forth the argument that logically, Christ must have been divine. If He weren’t divine, then He was either lying or insane. Those are our only choices. If you don’t believe in Christ’s divinity, do you believe one of the other options is true? Lewis called this the […]
My friend Vince Dorse, the über-talented artist who colorized Two Bad Pilgrims, spills the secrets of his technique here. Here’s hoping you enjoy a blessed Thanksgiving with family and friends.
