TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Advice for Grads (and Anyone Else Who Needs It)
It's graduation season! Over the last few weeks, I visited Ringling College of Art in Sarasota and SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) in person to do portfolio reviews and talk about book publishing and the state of the industry. I judged the Senior Illustration Show at SVA (School of Visual Arts). I've also done remote reviews for a handful of other schools, including Syracuse University. Here's some of the top pieces of advice…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Painting Oz
May 15, 2024 - When I was a young boy, my family would gather around the black and white TV set to watch, every spring, the re-airing of the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz. Each year it was a special event both as a really fun movie and as a happy family moment in time. During commercial breaks my parents would talk about which scenes had been changed or cut and how they’d remembered it differently. I remember listening to my parents’ reactions as I sat riveted to the screen. Their discussions during the commercial breaks kept the reality of making a film about fantasylands important to the process. I was learning, even then, of what it takes to realize a vision, to build a dream. This affected how and why I paint. I paid attention to subtle…
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