Month: April 2009

Many people travel to Paris to visit the Louvre, Rome for the Vatican, New York Museum of Modern Art and the Met, and hundreds of other highly popularized centers of culture and enlightenment.  It is considered a badge of honor for an artist just to be able to say they have visited one of these…

Today is Good Friday.  No work and no school for us today.  We have been wrestling all morning, tickling Girl2.  Much laughter happens thusly.  Even the big dog got involved sticking his cold nose onto exposed skin when he could.  Days like this are rare and to be cherished.  Especially after hearing the news about…

What to do with my figure drawing posts…? Over the past few months this web site has slowly changed from a discussion of what it was like growing up in a small town and being set loose on the world, to mostly a blog about my art stuff.  My inner-artist is fully aware that nudity…

Late nights and early mornings are kind of like whiskey and beer.  When you are a young college student, you can knock back a boiler maker with the best of ’em.  At some point, however, you realize that being sick is not part of the fun and you begin to back off of ’em. Last…

Last night’s EDM was to draw a traffic sign.  I have one of these in my front yard.  So, at 10pm I traipsed out of the house to draw a school zone sign.  Of course it was cold.  I really need to start looking at these challenges in advance. I love spring time in Oklahoma. …