More on London Creativity Retreat

Just back from a week in beautiful Bar Harbor, Maine where we spent our days getting lost in the woods and our evenings sitting with a glass of wine and staring up at the stars. Feeling so much more relaxed and very happy to be back in the studio!
When we were away three more people [...]

How To Start A Drawing Club Part Two

In Part One we looked at how to get a drawing club up and running— finding a space, setting a time, inviting a few folks over, committing to weekly meetings and getting the necessary supplies.
Next, we need to consider what we’ll do each week. First, if you’re leading the group you need to decide. If [...]

Good Focus

Hi! This has been a hugely busy time for me so very sorry for being an erratic correspondent. I like being busy and I’m so grateful to have the deep sense of purpose I now have. I was just speaking to Dear A about that tonight. We always eat dinner together and talk, often [...]

Pirate Radio Rocks and We Can Too!

Well, it’s only taken a year for us to get around to seeing this and, hey, it was more than worth the wait! In our favor, there was a long queue on Netflix—we did order it ages ago. Not in our favor—think of all those months in which we didn’t have this lusciousness coursing through [...]

Listen Up!

Hey, there! Yes, I’ve been away—off in England to see a friend and make arrangements for the creativity retreat I’m doing in Covent Garden in London on the weekend of September 25th and 26th.  I spent a great afternoon in Covent Garden with Sue Blake, pr person extraordinaire, who is helping me organize the event. [...]

A Book, An Artist, A Trench

This book, Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) arrived this week. It’s the catalogue for Maira Kalman’s traveling exhibition now at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania and coming next spring to New York.  I love her work—the acute observation, the sublime affect, the notice that the world is full of [...]

Sometimes Life Is Just a Diary

Sometimes I’m just running around, trying to catch up. I feel that way today. No one will shoot me if I don’t get things done but the next step is dependent on the last. I’m having a lot of interesting experiences at the moment. We all are but sometimes I don’t notice when I am [...]

Kids Again!

I gave a talk about my book, The Confident Creative, and led a drawing class yesterday at an adult education center. I was told beforehand that most of the folks who come to these morning talks are elderly but I was still a little surprised when the first man to arrive seemed to be at [...]

A Book of Ages

Okay! I now get to plug this fantastic book by fellow artist/illustrator/writer, Eric Hanson. And I’m really happy to do so because the book is fun! And we need more lightness and fun in this life, don’t you think? Anyway, through the magic of Facebook or some such thing, I met Eric and [...]

London Diary 4: Arshile Gorky and Agnes Magruder (aka Agnes Gorky Fielding)

This is the last of the London diary. I was there for a week to promote my book but now I’m back home in Boston and life here is taking over.  First,a couple of torrential rains left the basement flooded! Dear A took care of most of that but I did have to keep my [...]