My favorite photos are portraits and my favorite portraits are now on hipstamatic. <sigh> Shall I show more? I’m on the verge of getting the new iPhone 4S. Has anyone else acquired it yet?

A great day to take a nap.  

Recently  a friend of mine turned me on to an article in the NYTimes about cool, new (well, new to me) iPhone photo apps. One of the apps which I immediately downloaded is called Percolator which you see demonstrated here. You can vary the size of the “beans” and the “grind” to get a finer [...]

The first week of school is in the bag and I’m a wreck! However, I’m feeling good about my new students and the new school year. So play the blues, clown. It’s all god. BTW: Great article on iPhone photo apps in the nytimes. Check it out. This stuff is bottomless. Thanks JW for the [...]

A new model – new to me anyway – and some new media, gave my drawing a much needed boost last Friday and I was quite pleased with the results. The portrait above was done with graphite – a nice thick, soft stick of graphite. Ears, for your your information, are very difficult to draw [...]

One of the drawing assignments I gave my class this summer was texture. I borrowed the texture hand worksheet from my colleague at PVHS who also gave me the idea for the texture animal combining at least three different animals. Quite by accident I happened to spy the texture animal below while riding my bike [...]

The high school students in my summer school art class have been on a strict regimen of drawing for the past week and I’m very impressed with the results. I’m using this class as a laboratory to try out my drawing curriculum so I can have it nailed for the Fall. Some hits, some misses. [...]