Rainstorm Mushrooms
Climate and other outdoor factors converge and create a landscape where mushrooms rarely thrive. When they do, I’m always fascinated by the fungal structures that peek from the suburban landscape before shriveling up and disappearing again. dormant sporeslurking hidingbidinghidden in cool crevicesdesiccateddown among nooks of decayundaunted by days of darkaridchillbut…
Pancakes & Pi
Five years ago today I embarked on a multi-year web comic journey. I have May fifth marked in my calendar as a recurring event to remind me that on that day (THIS day) in 2017 I uploaded the first of about 200 comic strips that I wrote and drew. Almost…
Saturday Sketchy: Vacation Artist
The weeks before Christmas were a flurry of packages arriving on our doorstep. Avoiding crowds and malls we’d done much of our shopping online, tho less shopping than usual overall. Not all those packages were gifts, however. I’d snuck an order of some sketch supplies into my incoming parcels, including…
Words on Sketching
Learning by doing. It can work, but at some point a guy needs to look to some other sources for guidance and advice. Like, say… a book (or ten.) What was the best anything that you read in 2021? As much as I’ve taken to the internets this past year…