Awhile back, I talked about how I recorded two songs with David Lichtenstein. It's funny. I've always thought it must be tough being the child of someone famous. You're always living in their shadows. People will often compare you to them. For instance, I'd hate to be Walter Payton's or…
When painting pinups, the magic happens in the initial sketch. Once you get good at sketching, everything else just falls in place. In the old days, artists took anatomy classes and dissected bodies. I won't go that far. However, I strongly recommend that you know bodies very well. I'm a…
Distractions. Nowadays, it seems like we have more than we’ve ever had before. Before, we had the telephone and the television. And that was it. If nobody called and nothing was on TV, you got shit done. So much easier to have a creative mindset back then. Note that I…
I personally prefer hot press watercolor paper. Why? Because the bread and butter of my art are not the colors. It's the drawing under the colors. Hot press watercolor paper is the most smooth, and the easiest to draw on. If you're wondering the difference between the two papers, cold…
Francisco Goya isn't my favorite artist of all-time. I'm writing about him first in my Artists I like series because he's the very first non-American artist I studied in real life. My wife and I have a hard rule. Every year, we have to leave the country to a country…
