Tag: brush pen

  • Bold lines

    Bold lines

    Continuing the practice of figure drawing, focusing on faces and hands. I’ve been doing quick brush pen work from images on my iPad or on Zoom calls as one way to practice. I like these brush pens for line drawing and using a few lines to capture a shape. Proportion is less important, and some…

  • On earth and in the stars

    On earth and in the stars

    Sharing a couple of recent pieces done in between work and play, night and day.

  • Big rocks first

    Big rocks first

    Priorize your big rocks first. A simple and powerful concept that makes total sense. But why is it so hard to do, let alone do consistently?

  • This week’s little fires

    This week’s little fires

    This week’s little fires (aka art projects)

  • The side of the mountain

    The side of the mountain

    It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.

  • Signs of life

    Signs of life

    Something inspired by the great short story “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang, from his most recent collection of short stories: Exhalation. Also, this is my first time using a Pigma Brush pen I picked up in Amsterdam. Every parrot has a unique call that it uses to identify itself; biologists refer to this as…