Shut Up and Draw

If I have a motto it’s this: Shut Up and Draw. We allow so much interference in our creative process. Certain artists have techniques of cutting through all that and get their arm moving. Once that happens, magic can take place. Here are two cases in point. One, John Hendrix, who recently had his Star … Read more

Illustration Next @ SVA Tuesday

Tuesday Nov. 5, 7PM, at the SVA amphitheater, open to the public. An update of a lecture I gave in 2010 discussing the work that artists are doing outside the traditional editorial framework. This is in acknowledgement of the changing world we all live in. I didn’t feel I was doing a complete enough job … Read more

My Favorite Things

For those of you on the Swing Shift tonight. Click on this beauty and sail through the night. John Coltrane and Jones, Dolphy, Tyner, Peterson, etc, etc. Thanks to Julio Pimintel (subscribe to him on Youtube!) LIVE IN GERMANY 1960 Personnel John Coltrane (Tenor & Soprano Sax) Wynton Kelly (Piano) Paul Chambers (Bass) Jimmy Cobb … Read more