My outdoor sketching setup
Since I’ve been sketching in the museum, I’ve been thinking of an easy way to carry all my different pens with my sketchbook. After a trip to the fabric store, I bought some elastic tape to create a bandolier. The bandolier you see above is my first attempt at sewing elastic tape; turns out you ...
Recession Art Grand Opening
I have a couple of my books for sale at RAC which will have its grand opening Saturday January 21. There is a grand opening reception from 6p.m to midnight at 9 Clinton St. I’ll be there as I’m curious how the space looks like, I don’t know whether I’m in the “gallery section” or ...
How to do a 3-d /stereoscopic image
Last week I bought a very cool 3-d silkscreened book from Dernier Cri. It’s possibly the first time I’ve seen stereoscopic images that “work”. By the way, by stereoscopic I’m referring to images that need to be seen with red/blue lens glasses. So I bought the book to figure out how it was made. Below, ...
Boy and bear new illustration
I finished a new illustration of a boy wrestling/ hugging a bear. I originally wanted the picture to be unambiguous and show the boy and bear play fighting. But then some people to whom I showed preliminary sketches thought it was a dangerous situation for the boy, so i toned it down and it seems ...
Sketching on location
It was last year, on my trip to Egypt, that I started sketching on location. Part of the reason was that I broke my camera on my second day in Egypt and so had no choice but to draw draw draw. Although it frustrated me that my drawing weren’t like the “real” thing, I realized ...
Silkscreen Process
Because many people don’t know what silkscreen printing is, I’ll do a brief primer on it. I took some photos at the School of Visual Arts printshop to help illustrate some confusing passages. Silkscreen Printing is printing an image through the use of a silk mesh stretched over a frame(called silkscreen). Unlike most printing methods ...
Gannets – Carousel book 
The Cambrian 
Gumbo Limbo 
Alien Encounters: Tree of Life 
The Ordovician and the Silurian