The Robins were out in full flurry this past weekend, devouring the berries from our holly tree and making it known throughout the neighborhood that they are in fact active this winter. Questions of migration and who should be here this time of year and who should not were the topic of a few debates, […]
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Found this in one of my sketch books from the fall. Thought it serendipitous that I was following deer tracks in the snow outside earlier today, looking for signs of what they were after. The ground hasn’t been covered for long but the next two months always draw out the neighbors looking for any vegetation […]
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I watched as the trucks arrived and the crew set up for the day. Having no idea how long it takes to dismantle and drop a 70 foot tall maple tree, I set up surveillance to track the progress. Spys were keeping me informed and the sounds of “The Chipper” alerted me to the momentum of […]
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Sitting on a table, adjacent to my drawing board, is a small tome of little consequence to the outside world. Thus far only a few copies exist. As I have written and posted about on One Drawing a Day over the past few years I have been documenting the daily grind of a flexographic pressman in the state […]
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For the past decade or so I have been working a collection of drawings that have developed into their own project. Slowly, each drawing piles up and gives shape to the next. In the course of that time one small set of those drawings emerged as a smaller, and very personal, side project. Once that side project started to […]
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I “missed” the dropping of the ball in January. Well, I didn’t miss it exactly, I just didn’t get done all that I had intended by that moment in time. Common amongst illustrators is the theme that the work is done when the deadline is up. Obviously we work with experience within a certain timeframe […]
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When I got back on the DC Metro Friday afternoon I had already decided I would not post anything on Instagram. A single image and a few hashtags doesn’t quite do the subject justice. By the time I was eating lunch a few hours later (first time at Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, MD—thank you—perfect post-Trump atmosphere) I made […]
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I walked on the train on Thursday, weary and undecided as to whether I would draw my captive audience. With my place by the door, I scanned around as we pulled into the next stop and people shuffled on. For a semi-crowded train the atmosphere was oddly calm. It was Thursday after all, just […]
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I took a class titled Connections during my last semester in high school. The elective was led by two of my favorite teachers. One taught Art and the other English, both focusing on “liberal” studies where the two subjects crossed pathes. Needless to say the […]
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions, or so the phrase goes. As I found a moment to freshen up the blog (the thing I promised myself I would stay on top of the last time I posted) I realized that the saying was hitting home on many levels. For one, I got […]
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