The Fringe Benefits of Failure
I’ve had a bit of an off day, to be honest. I stayed up late last night talking about art and teaching and life and telling embarrassing personal stories to people who probably weren’t interested in hearing them, the poor things. I ended the evening by breaking into my iced-stuck car several times through the […]
Flocking to the Pump: One Day These Little Drawings Will Grow Up Into Prints
These photographs aren’t great, and they aren’t edited very well (sorry.) But I think these 2 drawings are done. I’ll get up to school sometime soon and photograph these and my other recent pieces more professionally. In the meantime, I plan to start a few more drawings incorporating the crocheted forms and flocks of birds […]
A Dispatch from the Field: Settling in Bowling Green
It’s been about two weeks since I made the move up to Bowling Green from Murray. The time has been largely uneventful, both the students and the university have been quite nice so far, but still somewhat traumatic. Not since my last year of grad. school have Hannah and I spent so much time apart. […]
Oliver Jeffers, Story-teller
I love this whole video. And I really love the little peeks into his sketchbooks. And his compulsion to both tell and illustrate stories simultaneously. There’s something of a Wes Anderson aesthetic to all of this, but more free-seeming. I love the listing and the crossing-off-of-listing and the drawers and the labeling. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/57472271 w=400&h=300] […]
We All Have 10,000 Bad Drawings in Us
You’re probably tired of seeing these already, but I think they’re complete now. I’ve started on a third one, but it is going slowly. Whether these are successes or not, I don’t know. Probably not, but as Walt Stanchfield wrote, “We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the […]
2,000 Words on Why You Shouldn’t Go to Grad School for Art
Okay, so the title of my post is a bit misleading. I’m not necessarily going to advise you, prospective graduate students in art, NOT to go to graduate school. Nor do I necessarily mean to impress upon any other post-grads (“post-ops” seems almost appropriate) a feeling of remorse for having dedicated so much time and […]
Memory Ever Misremembered: More Drawing
I’ve gotten a bit more done on those drawings I posted about last time, and I’ve started a new one. Things are slowing down now as I get involved in other projects, but I hope to get a bit more work in on them this evening. I plan to leave the top drawing in graphite […]
Parasite of the Ripening Fruit: New Drawings in Progress
I’m working on a few drawings in the evenings to get that 2013 into my portfolio! Neither of these is done yet. I’ve just been drawing in graphite and laying in some watercolor washes. I plan on going in with some ink and more graphite. I have another drawing planned out in my mind to […]
Closet Discoveries: Orange and Sapphire
Packing up my clothes closet today. In addition to sorting, folding, and making a big pile for Goodwill, I’m enjoying putting together some new outfit ideas. This is a dress and shrug my grandmother made for my mother out of sapphire blue velveteen when she was a little girl. I paired it with the belt […]
Packing up Again: A New Neighborhood of Blanket Forts
Blake just left for Ohio for the month; his classes start tomorrow. I’m on a mission to turn this apartment back into a shell for some other wanders to inhabit while Blake holds down the fort at our new shell in Bowling Green. By the way, if any of y’all are interested in a place […]