there is no answer

I finally broke down and got a cellphone, holding out for so long for the reason that I LIKE being unavailable to the world.

Having myself to myself without distractions is generally when my mind drifts into a calm and creative place.

I'm my most productive when I have nothing I'm supposed to be doing and no one can interrupt my nothing and ask me to do something for them.

So no, I'm not giving out my cell number. I've got it on a slip of paper in a box hidden somewhere. Ha!

chocolate covered paradox

Shortly after Halloween some years ago my daughter asked the question: "Why do they call it 'Fun Size' if it is smaller and you don't get as much?"

happy halloween

Sometime during the early 60's I saved the day. My brother however liked to stir things up.

wonderful

You must buy this book. Hilarious.

have you seen the little piggies?

"This little pig loved a gnome", from 'The Wonder Book' by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, drawings by myself.

Available in March!

r-e-s-p-e-c-t

Some folks are still surprised that an illustrator can offer up something worthwhile. It seems silly to me that the subject continues to be debated.

Gibson was treated like a rock star during his lifetime, yet more than one critic has flung the word ‘illustrator’ at Andy Wyeth as an insult.

Perhaps after all these years, it is the art critics who remain the clueless ones. But they do have a lot of cerebral baggage they have to peer through in order to see things, so we should cut them some slack.

I had a chance to voice my own take on the subject when asked to write a review for The Seattle Times of an Al Hirschfeld exhibit at the Frye Museum.

words fail me

I haven't really had anything to say lately. It happens every time I get really into drawing. Words and pictures seem to use opposite sides of my brain that can not be used at the same time. (But I can rub my belly and pat my head simultaneously.)

In fact, the creative slice of the old bean resents distractions and interruptions with a fervor.

As a result, I'm an inconsistent blogger.

So it goes.