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When an artist goes to hell he is assigned to a certain circle. Specifically, it’s the fourth circle just off from the misers and spendthrifts. He’s given a small room in a small tangential circle off to the side. Upon entering his new home, he’s given a crappy spiral bound…
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It’s been a couple of months since I’ve had a linocut to work on. Part of that is due to the fact that The Home Economy really took it out of me and part of it is my Dad. As I mentioned in my previous post, the drawings dealing with…
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This has been a very rough couple of months. We have had a new baby (number 7, a girl!), a couple of health scares for my wife related to the pregnancy and increased work responsibilities. And also my Dad died. My Dad’s death has been the worst and strangest thing…
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The other day I was texting back and forth with a couple of guys I work with. It was a group text and I didn’t even mind. In fact, a lot of the texts were funny. So you heard it here first, Local Man Enjoys Being in on Group Text.…
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My friend, Joe, came up to me a few weeks back and asked if I could give him something to work on. Not just anything, of course, a linocut something. You see Joe has been coming to me for several months to learn how to make prints. He is doing an excellent…
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Imagine with me for a moment that you have been working on a set of two prints for the last 8 months. Imagine that you finished the first of these back in early April – almost 6 months ago. Imagine that this piece was the most complex relief print you had…
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The book in question, filled with wit, insight, wisdom, practical advice, and also the stuff I wrote! My friend, Ned Bustard has a new book out entitled Teaching Beauty and your working boy has a chapter in it. My part of it is pretty much the last chapter, but still… I…
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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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If you poke around here for a while you will see some chickens. A lot of chickens. In fact, you may see more chickens than are strickly rational. That’s as it should be. I’ve been working on a series of chicken “portraits” and I have a few under my belt…
