“Tracy” Sunday I spent most of my time drawing, erasing, redrawing, rubbing, redrawing with charcoal. With about fifteen minutes left with the model I decided to try out a new fude-nibbed ink pen. On smooth marker paper, without really having any experience with the pen or understanding of how to use it, I found I…

I currently use Noodler’s inks and affordable Lamy Safari and Pilot Metropolitan fountain pens. I like the portability and consistency of flow that comes with such pens, versus the traditional dip pen that may provide slightly more expression due to greater nib flexibility but introduce all kinds of tedious annoyances that I don’t have much…

“Raquel”

Much like the Griswolds in National Lampoon’s Family Vacation, my family climbed into a station wagon and headed out for summer adventure. Our target destination was a double wide trailer in the Mojave, but we took our time getting there, sleeping in a tent at KOAs and stopping at the usual tourist destinations—the Grand Canyon,…

I used to enjoy watching Charlie Rose interviews—artists, musicians, authors, poets—where else in mainstream media could one find such intimate, conversational interviews? Although I never fully agreed with one friend’s assessment of the program as “elitist,” eventually I grew tired of the fawning over Hillary Clinton and Jeff Bezos. However I did continue to tune…

Coffee shops and restaurants are usually good stalking grounds for artists looking for people sitting relatively still for a while. Of course