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When looking through my drawings of the past several years, I see that I’m coming up short somehow. The drawings are pretty good and I like them, but there is something missing. There’s a vitality that just doesn’t seem to be there. The prints I have been working on, I…
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We all have tools that we like to use. There are some things that we see as essential to our art-making process and that we just have to have with us at all times. Here are mine. For now. First off, I carry all this stuff in a pencil case.…
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See the entirety of this drawing book! Thrill to artistic feats heretofore unknown to man-kind! Recoil in horror at the sight of unearthly creatures! Swoon at the beauty of insects! It’s all here in one five and a half minute video! PS: Be warned of the tuberculosis-like coughs that happen…
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I’ve nearly finished my current drawing book, A Sufficiency of Leisure. I started it back in February of 2015 and have been plugging away steadily since then. These books take me a long time. Pretty much all of the drawings and collages in them are “finished” pieces – or at…
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Now, let me say that my wife is an incredible woman. Nimble of mind, stout of heart, magnanimous of spirit, lovely of countenance… She has big thoughts about my artwork. I do not agree with all of them, but there you have it. Marriages are like that. Recently, I began…
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This is a new site and a new reason to write! I have been very, very busy since you last heard from me. I have been in the deep end of something like a linocut renaissance. You see, I very much disliked making linocuts way back when I was learning…
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WHY ST. LUKE'S ATTIC?
St. Luke’s Attic is named after, of course, Saint Luke. There are a couple of reasons that he is the patron saint of artists. The first is that his gospel goes a long way in painting a picture of Jesus and the people who surround him. The other is that he actually painted pictures of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. That sounds ...
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