Category: Ideas
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House Work
The ideas don’t always come fluidly. Interesting things can often happen, but usually in the context of smaller works that have the feel of sketches or studies. You just keep plugging away until, in retrospect, an interesting image occurs. My personal life has included the sale of my childhood home. 60+ years of memories, gone…
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Black is the Color
In the 80s, I did drawings with colored pencil on black paper. It creates a dream like ambience, and I even depicted a few real dreams, along with some amateur semiotics. I actually was awarded an Individual Artists Fellowship by the Colorado Council on Arts and Humanities in drawing. I left the medium behind when…
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Pop Go the Besties
It’s been a year. Filled with event, not all of them positive. We forge on, after a crazy summer of family matters, and my usual art show scramble. Not to mention the Red States’ massive brain fart in November. I survived the summer family drama, and then got through the art show rush, then I…
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Summer Muse
MoPrint took a bit out of me, blog wise. Its frantic pace stretched into April and I also took May off, mostly. By June, I was back into a regular studio routine, but never picked up the thread here. My latest studio icon is boxes. I sometimes like to take a simple image and explore…
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State of the Art
MoPrint Grows a Medium MoPrint 2024 is finally done now, and there’s a sense of relief for me. It’s hard work, and there are a lot of details and dates to keep track of. Sometimes, I get so busy and tired, I don’t get to see everything I’d like to. This year I did pretty…
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A Studio Bestiary
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Matters of Style: Small ‘p’ Pop
I don’t often write about art books, which often for me, take the form of technical research, and is thus not as much of an ‘escape’ from the day-to-day grind of what is, after all, a business. The ways in which technique translates to expression are naturally of a major concern, make no mistake, but…
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Fast NonFiction
It’s in the nature of comics to feel like light reading. I’m not sure that’s true- I have a Yoshiharu Tsuge book of seminal manga stories that is still waiting for me to settle into a slower routine after MoPrint, as I just don’t feel I can give it the focus it needs. Manga is…
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End Game
What is the end game in the studio? Sometimes a deadline will bring focus, leading to a well resolved work, sometimes it inhibits experimentation, bringing repetitive ideas. I guess both- experimentation and production, are important. At this time, I’m trying to produce new work for the upcoming MoPrint ’22, which will bring show opportunities, if…
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Reading Edge: The World is Round
It goes without saying that reading is a good escape. The process itself, of converting symbolic words into imaginary visual images, is absorbing and a form of fantasy. Fantasy is probably necessary to a creative human life, but now, with creative and social freedoms under severe repression from a political order that seeks to colonize…
