Regular servings of inspiration for visual artists from the bestselling author of Dinotopia, Color & Light, and Imaginative Realism.
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Obstacles to Making Art (and How to Overcome them)
What are the main psychological obstacles to being productive and happy as an artist? And how can we get around them?
(Below, Norman Rockwell, Artist Facing Blank Canvas, 1938.
Obstacles and Remedies
1. Imposter syndrome
You’...
Tools and Techniques of Show Card Writing
Show-card writing, which I introduced a couple days ago, was done mainly with the pen and brush.
A lot of specialists liked the versatility of dip pens. In fact, the Speedball line of pens was invented for show card work, and the company h...
Show Card Writing
If you were to walk into any store, pharmacy, or theater lobby 100 years ago, you would be see handmade advertising signs everywhere.
Menhennit Course in Show Card Writing, 1927
These were called “show cards” and they were big business f...
My Dad Did Rocket Science
I was researching what my parents were doing in the 1960s, and I ran across a scientific paper with my dad’s name on it.
The paper was hard to find (PDF below), but it’s unclassified. It’s called “A Seismograph for Lunar Experiments,” pub...
I Paint an American Flag
I’m not so much thinking of the flag as a symbol, but more as just a collection of shapes: thirteen stripes alternating red and white, the whole thing suspended by the upper left-hand corner with folds radiating from the top corner.
I love...
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Author and illustrator of Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time and the art instruction books Color and Light and Imaginative Realism.
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