During my classes online, I’m asked by students over and over again, ‘show me how I can improve my paintings.’ Besides needing to get better at drawing, paint mixing and application, composition, and value control-- handling light is the most overlooked aspect of...
As folks that have met me in person (or seen my meat suit on instagram) know, I have a big upper-arm tattoo of an art nouveau piece. (Shoutout to Iris Compiet, I think this was from an Spectrum or IlluXcon convention before the pandemic) Many people comment on this...
This past month I have been posting on social media a collection of paintings, my Earth and Sea series. These works originally had been created for various projects from commercial book covers to gallery exhibitions to personal works which did not have initially any...
Wow, the first cover design is amazing, it’s so beautiful and original… Chris Sickels did a fantastic job.
And the fact that someone named Tchaikovsky wrote a book with puppet characters makes this cover even better!
Chris Sickels has been one of my favourite artists since I first came upon his puppets like 10 years ago… Usually my taste changes from year to year, but Chris and a few other artists have held the title for so so long now. Still don’t understand how there isn’t a stop motion movie with his beautiful style.