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Cindy
Cindy Woods has long been one of my favorite sketchbook artists. I love the quality of her line, the clarity of her observation. And she is a strong exemplar of the fact that no matter what one’s situation, drawing makes it better. She recorded her life at the Virginia Home, a nursing home for Disabled [...]
An Illustrated Life Podcast 013: Christine Castro Hughes
My editor tell me that in a week or two, I will be getting the first advanced copy of my new book, An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers. As you can imagine, I’m thrilled. I’m also excited to be starting up my podcast of interviews with the [...]
An Illustrated Life Podcast 012: Melanie Ford Wilson
Melanie is a wonderful illustrator and designer based in Ontario, Canada. I first encountered her work through her blog and was enchanted by the sweetness of her perspective and by the lively way she writes. We had a length chat about all sorts of things but I was particularly intrigued by our conversation about the [...]
An Illustrated Life Podcast 011: Seamus Heffernan
Seamus Heffernan is the youngest person in my new book but his work is mature and inspiring. He hand makes his own journals and paints and draws in them with enormous style and beauty. Seamus grew up in New England and now lives in Portland, Oregon. He recently graduated with a BFA in painting from [...]
An Illustrated Life Podcast 009 & 010: Roz Stendahl
May 10, 2008 Many readers are probably familiar with Roz Stendahl and the incredibly useful advice she dispenses as a member of the EDM group. You may also remember that she gave me a special correspondence class in watercoloring a few years back that transformed my journal pages. On this special double episode of the [...]
An Illustrated Life Podcast 008: Paul Soupiset
On this week’s episode, I talk to designer and San Antonio native Paul Soupiset. I first came across Paul’s work last year when he posted his Lentenblog. I loved his watercolors and the interesting way he was approaching his faith through art. When Paul visited New York, I invited him to visit us at home. [...]
An Illustrated Life Podcast 007: Mark S Fisher
A sketchbook is a place of contemplation. For some people, like me, that contemplation is of the exterior world, and focus exclusively on drawing the things that are in front of me. But for others, contemplation is internal. They draw the pictures that appear in their minds and allow their imaginations to embellish. On this [...]
An Illustrated Life Podcast 006: Rama Hughes
This week’s podcast is an interview with LA illustrator and teacher Rama Hughes. Rama’s work is clear and confident and his ability to capture likeness is unnerving. A long time sketchbooks keeper, he has a lot of interesting things to say about incorporating art into your every day life — he and his wife Christine [...]
An Illustrated Life Podcast 005: Kurt D. Hollomon (Part II)
This week’s podcast is a continuation of my conversation with Kurt Hollomon. See the notes for last week’s episode for more details. Please stay tuned and consider subscribing via RSS or iTunes* to this weekly feature until the book comes out this Fall. See all previous episodes on my podcast home page. Having a problem [...]
An Illustrated Life Podcast 004: Kurt D. Hollomon (Part I)
Time for another in my series of podcast interviews with cool sketchbook keepers. Are you enjoying them? I first encountered Kurt Hollomon‘s work when Dan Price sent me an outdoor gear catalog from Royal Robbins which Kurt had illustrated. It was the first time I had seen a commercial project that combined the sort of [...]
An Illustrated Life podcast 003: Hal Mayforth
On this week’s podcast, I interview illustrator Hal Mayforth about crow quills, snowboarding and the Blues. Hal and his work are smart and funny. I am particularly inspired by the travel journals he keeps, documenting the hijinks of his family on vacation. I am delighted to have Hal’s work in my upcoming book, An Illustrated [...]
An Illustrated Life podcast 002: Cathy Johnson
Cathy (Kate) Johnson has been an inspiration to me for years with her extraordinary nature journals, her beautiful watercolors and her generous willingness to teach many of us in the EDM community via her informative posts and her many books and articles. I am honored to have Kate’s work in my upcoming book, An Illustrated [...]
An Illustrated Life: the Podcast
One of the most exciting aspects of working on my upcoming book, “An Illustrated Life: drawing inspiration form the private sketchbooks of artists, illustrators and designers” has been the chance to get in touch with the many artists whose work I have admired and learned from since I began to draw. Each of the fifty [...]
2006 in retrospect
The palest ink is better than the best memory” – Chinese proverb One of the many pleasures and benefits of journaling is the ability to get a clearer picture of one’s own changes over time. I just sat down and flipped through the last year of drawings I’ve done and it’s quite amazing how much [...]
Slo-Mo
I think, therefore I am. And yet to truly be, I have to control, even stifle that part of me that thinks and thinks and thinks. It’s important, particularly when life gets overwhelming, to take time to just be in the moment. I’ve never been able to shut down through a program of meditation; the [...]
Too hot not to cool down
Like every twenty-first century critter, I am surrounded by exciting possibilities that latch onto the throat of my life and suck out my plasma. Every second is so jam-crammed with diversions: 500 channels, ten billion websites, a zillion blogs and podcasts and videocasts and magazines and art supply stores and people to chat with and [...]
Recent Adventures and a New Venture
I have had several interesting drawing experiences over the past month and neglected to share them here. The first was soon after I had arrived in Los Angeles and attended a sketchcrawl arranged by the SoCal Drawing Room, a group that was initiated by Karen Winters and grew out of the Everyday Matters Yahoo! Group [...]