posted: October 10, 2011

posted: May 23, 2011

Color theory is a bore. I tried to learn it, but the rules get convoluted so quickly just steps beyond mixing compliments,--and the results are forever unpredictable.  My intuitive sense goes toward grey, warm and cool, and it fails or succeeds without regard to amount of effort applied or degree of desperation. Step outside the safety of local color, and all bets are off. One thing I've learned: put a little red in it, and it might look like you planned it (or at least keep it from cadaver dead).
Some "color theory" exercises; portraits of musicians.

posted: April 29, 2011

As every freelancer knows, a steady gig is a good gig. When a steady gig develops a rhythm where the work almost creates itself, it's something special.
Having concluded a years-long run of monthly work for the USC Trojan Family Alumni Magazine illustrating columns and campus news pieces, I'd like to thank art director Rick Simner and editor Allison Engel for creating and sustaining that kind of rapport. You'll be missed.

posted: April 19, 2011