Friday, April 20, 2012

UPCOMING EVENT




















My friend, Regina Sadowski, has composed a score to accompany my picture book "Roger, the Jolly Pirate". We will be performing it on May 6th in Manhattan at the Bloomingdale School of Music in Manhattan. After the music, I'll be doing some drawing with the kids, or anyone else. I hope that you can make it. Here's a link for the details. bsmny.org

Friday, April 13, 2012

The STORM MAKERS


















Thank you for all the nice comments on "the Storm Makers". Several of you noticed the lettering on the cover. I thought you might like to see a piece of the process that I go through to work out the lettering on a cover. Every image starts with a very quick rough sketch, just to get an idea down. In the sketches above you can see the initial idea for this cover, and a hint of the idea I had for the title.


















This is my first attempt at refining the lettering. I later decided a more calligraphic approach would be more interesting. Below is an early sketch of the final idea























The creative process is very important. For every painting you see there are many, many drawings that lead up to the final image. If you are interested in making pictures, learn this process. Start with a rough idea the redraw and refine until you have an image that you are happy with.