
Office Hours is where I, Chris Thornock, spill the good stuff from years of teaching, drawing, and figuring it out as I go. It’s part advice column, part studio confessional—for anyone trying to make creative work that matters.
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One of the paintings I completed from that workshop back in 2013. Oil on panel.
Back in 2013, a seriously talented and famous figurative painter was leaving New York and conducting a week-long oil painting workshop in my area. I’d discover...
Have you been to the Cloisters? That medieval-style building in New York that houses the Met’s collection of medieval art — tapestries, stained glass, paintings, and other European artifacts. Have you wandered its gardens and walked its sto...
Triumph Over Mastery II, Mark Tansey, 1987
I have written about this idea before but it bears repeating. Maybe, hopefully, I will finally practice what I am trying to preach. Sorry if you have heard it all before.
There are two things I t...
Photo by Wilhelm Gunkel on Unsplash
Have you ever sat down to start a project but found that instead of being paralyzed by an absence of ideas you have instead an avalanche of them?
The entire universe is a possibility. What will you pai...
The semester ended some weeks ago and summer break has officially begun — which sounds like freedom until you look at my actual life.
I’m on deadline for two picture books with dream clients. I don’t say that as a flex. I say it because my...
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I’m Chris and I am an illustrator, artist, and educator living in the Mountain West of the USA. When I'm not walking the dog my nose is in my sketchbook.
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