Facing facts
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. William Blake - Auguries of Innocence I have been reading...
How to Yahoo
Having a hard time logging into the Yahoo Group for the first time? Here's a step by step guide. 1.Here's the main page for the group. 2. In the upper left hand corner, you'll see the place to sign up...
Why?
Danny, The moment you get up to get your sketchbook to draw, why do you do it? What makes you want to make a sketch your sketchbook? Do you do it for you or does knowing other people will...
Stuff I Like of Late
I've collected yearbooks from flea markets for ages: they give me an opportunity to draw lots of faces framed in similar ways so I can focus on their differences. John Marz had really outdone me by drawings every single...
Watercolor Journaling DVD
Christina Lopp and Gay Kraeger offer fantastic classes in how to start keeping an illustrated journaling and now they've captured this experience on a terrific new DVD, Illustrated Watercolor Journaling . It's full of great ideas and inspiration for...
A new leaf
My mum has just put out a new 2008 calendar and notecards in her line of Leafages-- beautiful art made with leaves and calligraphy. Before the holidays arrive, I urge you to visit her site for over 50 designs...
Ex Libris Video
Click To Play This is a little video with vague reviews of some new books I've gotten and quite liked. If you'd like to get copies of any of the books I mention in this video and rebutt my...
Sushi platter
SOLD OUT!! Richard Bell is now offering his latest books in a special collection. They are among my favorite possessions and I heartily recommend them as examples of the journaling art at its peak. Check 'em out here...
I'm a Creative Mom
Well, I try to be (it's just that damned missing chromosome that's holding me badk). And to inspire me, I listen to the fantabulous Creative Mom Podcast. It's what I tried and failed to do with my own defunct...
Searle buildings
I built a little gallery after scanning some pages from "Paris Sketchbook" (text by Kaye Webb) and "Paris, Paris" (text by Irwin Shaw), the two books that contain the best building drawings Ronald Searle has done. These books also...
Je l'aime bien
Carol Gillot's Paris breakfasts blog featuring watercolors of same. You might like her main site too....
Creative Mom
Have you checked out the Creative Mom Podcast? I'm digging it....
Year in Japan winners!
Kate Williamson came to our home today to draw the winners of the Year in Japan raffle in person. We were delighted to chat with her about her trip, her work and her life. We had some tea and...
Radio Nobbs
Michael Nobbs has been busy. I had no sooner finished enjoying the fresh issue of his wee magazine, The Beany, when he announced the first episode of his podcast. Michael is a gentle soul, who draw lovely cups of...
Marcel van Eeden
The Morning News has an interesting exhibit on show of some great pencil drawings. Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden was born in 1965 in The Hague. His magnum opus is to make a drawing a day based on any...
Newly discovered drawings sites
Spend some time with these inspiring sites. But not too much. Save time for drawing. A great animated tour of a ball point sketchbook collaboration:DQ3. Fascinating flight of imagination: Drawings of skeletons of cartoon characters Fantastic illustrations that combine...
Enrique Flores
Crazy good traveling illustrated journalisto. If you haven't yet, check out his work here....
Kiran Ahluwalia
If you'd like to give your iPod a jog, try listening to a radically different type of music. I am really enjoying a new CD by a former bond trader from Toronto of South Asian extraction....
Between the covers
A tour of my brand new book and some early reviews. If you like this site, journaling, drawing, art, etc, you will like this book. If you want to jumps start your creativity, please read on.
Sketchcrawl - the movie
Check out this little Air France film of a couple of folks sketching around Paris. Thanks, Laurent....
Mug me
The MorningNews.Org is selling t-shirts and mugs with my art work. It's a nice way to support the site that supports lots of great writers and artists....
You've got mail!
Send me an illustrated letter and win a prize!
A cool Sketchcrawl souvenir
Check out this lovely monoprint of our 'Crawl by Belinda Del Pesco. It includes a demo of how she made it....
A Dawg's Tale
Jack's newest experiments in stop-motion animation.
Attention D.Price fans
As you may know, Dan Price, author of Moonlight Chronicles, has a wonderful new book out called “Radical Simplicity: Creating an Authentic Life”.... Secondly, if you are interested in supporting Dan, please share your opinion on the Amazon page for his book Some abusive 'critic' has written a horrible, completely baseless review which has drastically lowered the book's rating.
Chip Off the Old Blog
My boy, Jack Tea, launched Life in LaGuardia, his own vblog recently. If you;d like afull report on Halloweena nd whey he doesn;ts mil in pictures, cjheck it out.
Turning over a New Leaf
One of my favorite artists (who just happens to be my mum) has just brought out two new calendars for 2006. They are both full of 12 months of leafages � her unique medium of pressed leaves, calligraphy and...
Motion Paintings
I was turned on to the work of the Barnstormers, David Ellis' Brooklyn art collaborative that makes beautiful moving drawings in chalk and sand and paint and who knows what, giant living drawings that have to be seen to...
Rough Patch
I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing; and I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they might learn to draw."...
Vote for Trevor!
Our terrifically talented pal Trevor Romain's work has been nominated for a �Kids First� best of the year video award and we have a chance to help him to the podium. His competition has gathered everyone they know to...
Mon nouveau livre
Last Thanksgiving, Patti and I took a lovely trip to Paris and I made about sixty illustrations for Eric Maisel's book, A Writers Paris: A Guided Journey For The Creative Soul . The book is on store shelves now...
Whoa.
Nice....
Julie on Julie
My friend Julie Dermansky, a wonderful and powerful artist, is profiled in an article by my friend Julie Salamon. It appears in today's NY Times. For those who don't have access to the paper or membership to its site, I...
Illustration Friday
For those looking for suggestions of things to draw, I urge you to join the Illustration Friday maillist. Each weekend, you'll be sent a topic to inspire you. If you post your work, you can share it with other...
The drawing club
The Drawing Club is a lovely organization begun by our pal, Michael Nobbs, and folks like Karen Winters, Loretta Benedetto Marvel and others from the Everyday Matters Yahoo! Group. For a miniscule fee, you can take drawing courses and...
Geekery of the day
When I was eight, I opened my own public library. I tagged the spine of every book on my shelves with handmade Dewey stickers. Each flyleaf got a book plate: "Ex Libris Danny Gregory". Then I opened the door...
Trevor's visit
Trevor Romain came to town last week and wrote a nice bit about Patti on his blog today. Thanks, Trev....
Trevor forever
Lately I have been spending time with one of the loveliest, most humane blogs around. Trevor Romain just began his journal with the new year but it is already a rich repository of drawings and stories. Trevor is an...
Lunch Hour Comix
Robert Ullman, a Virginia illustrator, set himself a worthwhile challenge: to regularly draw a comic diary page entirely during his lunch hour. The results are varied — I like his drawing style and many of his observations are small...
Rwandan Easter
As I mentioned last year, my friend Julie Dermansky celebrates Easter each year with a drawing marathon. This year she is far away, having abandoned her tornado-struck farm and headed to Africa. She sends us pictures along the way...
Go hang yourself
A prankster artist has been hanging his own work in many of New York's museums. Now he's famous. Maybe it's something we should all try. For more details on how and why, check out wooster collective....
Chillin' with Dylan
Last week, I was hit by a sniffling cold midday. I spent the last few hours of the workday back at home, in bed with tea and Bob Dylan's new memoir. By the next morning, I'd bounced back and...
'zine machine
Serious congrats to my buddy, d.price. For the second year in a row, his fantastic mag, Moonlight Chronicles, was among the nominees by Utne Reader for best 'zine in the General Excellence category. Only this year, he won!! It's...
Books I can remember reading this year
Drawing Inspiration Back To The Slaughterhouse - Ronald Searle Carnet De Voyage - Craig Thompson. David Gentleman’s Britain David Gentleman’s Coastline David Gentleman’s India...
Me bad
Check this out and, if you're a Yank, think about whether to submit to it. At first, I really liked it but now I'm not so sure....
sketchcrawl.com
Enrico, the sketch crawl guy, is starting a global movement. On November 21st, he invites us all to go out and do a day long drawing odyssey. I think I shall. He has started a cool website to promote...
Draw together
I just came across this little site from GE, of all people. The idea is to encourage people to draw collaboratively via the Web. I started a drawing and invited some pals to join me. I'll report on what if...
Treasure trove
Jane Humphrey just told me about this site. Dr. Andrew Saul is posting images from his dad's illustrated journals created from WWII up till his death. Warren E. Saul (1921-1996) was a patent illustrator for Kodak and had range...
Sketch Crawl
Thanks to Ted Mills for pointing this out to me....
Heavens!
Give your eyeballs a treat and remember we are all connected....
Artist's Sketchbook
This magazine always has a few good tips and ideas for illustrated journal keepers. The new issue features a decent piece on my pal, d.price. It also contains the announcement that they will now be publishing six times a...
A brush with war
In April, 2003, New York Artist Steve Mumford travelled on his own to Iraq and began recording his experiences an impressions in words and in watercolor and ink wash drawings. He had returned several times since, riding on patrol...
Bells and whistles
Richard Bell has finally put together a mailing list for people who'd like to be updated on his wonderful Nature Diary. As I've raved often before, he draws so well, his observations are so keen and his sensibility so...
Holy Roller Novocaine
Most mornings, after breakfast but before we head out for the day, Jack and I flip on our amps, grab our axes and fire it up. One of us plays rhythm, a standard 12-bar blues (E,A,B7) and the other...
Fahrenheit 9/11
It's overstated. It's flawed. It's suspect at times. It's angry and maybe mean spirited. It's hilarious. It's courageous. It's very important. It's essentially, horrifyingly true. See it. Then make others see it....
Hellhounds on My Trail
"Context is everything that isn't physically contained in the grooves of the record. It includes your knowledge that everyone else says he's great: that must modify the way you hear him. That he was a handsome and imposing man,...
Zine scene
I think the core motivator for my journaling is a love of making books. At six, I made one about a knight and his pet dachshund that I still remember quite clearly. And I got my first computer in 1982...
The Way
Julia Cameron's classic, "The Artist's Way" , why I think you must read it and why I sometimes take issue with it.
Every bike matters
Taliah Lempert only paints bikes. Her site is bulging with wonderful portraits of steel, chrome and rubber. I love her style, her simplicity, her craft and consistency. She also documents many of the paintings as she does them with...
Happy 151st birthday!
My main man. Self taught. Art mad. Color mad. Love mad. Saw more clearly, more electrifyingly than anyone before or since but a canvas a day couldn't keep the demons away. The original amateur. Reviled, rejected, immortal. What can...
Pendemonium
An inventory of my current stable of pens. They are all waterproof and under $10. Each drawing was done with the corresponding pen. Dip pen: I love to write with this pen. It’s a little scratchy and there’s something very...
Pigging-out on pigment
One key thing I’ve learned over the past couple of months is that, when it comes to paint, a rose madder isn’t a rose madder isn’t a rose madder. Paints are very variable and there’s a lot of science...
d.price in the news
Check out my buddy's interview and gallery at: the Morning News today...
Tublegs
Tublegs is a small art zine that devotes a lot of space to odd crafts techniques and is a great source of inspiration. Between its covers I discovered nail polish photography, the aesthetics of cheap digicams, and new sources...
The Big Draw
I'm not big on writing about things that are already on the Internet but I think this one is quite interesting and one may not normally stumble across it:"Drawing Power has a simple but ambitious aim - to get...
Free Moonlight
d.price, the hobo publisher, author, illustrator, grave digger, and visionary behind Moonlight Chronicles, has long been my friend and teacher. He recently sent me a complete set of the Chronicles which, with his permission, I'd like to hand out...
Mother Nature
Flowers, leaves, and ferns can be beautiful reminders on your journal page. I'm not too fussy about how I preserve and mount them — I press them between my journal pages, folded in a paper towel if they're very...
Pen pals
I am really lucky to have a friend who has taught me an awful lot about journaling. D.Price is the author of a wonderful zine called Moonlight Chronicles (subscribe and you will be very happy) and he and I...
Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Fabrication
Don't get me wrong — I’m not a huge motorcycle enthusiast. The Hells’ Angels HQ is several blocks due east of us and I usually cross to other side if I have to walk by. Dentists and attorneys in...
A record of my exploration into all aspects of drawing, illustrated journaling, creativity, and the inspiring aspects of art. By the author of "Everyday Matters," "The Creative License", and "An Illustrated Life" and other books.