In April I made a cake topper for my brother-in-law’s birthday party while my wife made the cake. Here is the step by step on how I did it: It starts with making a wire armature; I made this one out of a clothes hanger. Luckily this is all the armature that the worm required; […]
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“The human figure is coming back into fashion in painting, and what are all those poor [expletives deleted] going to do now? They never learned how to draw.” –Thomas Hart Benton, referring to painters from the Abstract Expressionist movement, via Robert Wernick
Back when I was in art school, I served two semesters of hard time in Dr. McDermott’s ‘art in the dark’ (art history) class. I both loathed and loved that class; it was so amazingly hard and fascinating at the same time. McDermott was thoroughly convinced that you could not learn the history of art […]
A while back a guy emailed me because he was considering going to art school, and wanted my advice. Here would be my list of things I wish I had known when I went, that would have made my life a lot easier: The instructors don’t care who you are. Talent is cheap and common, […]
My 4 year old RCA TV is on its way out, and the viewable area is now so thin that everything I watch has an all-midget cast. We don’t even receive television–broadcast or cable–but we do play X-Box and watch DVDs. The initial result is that I have stopped playing Oblivion. The secondary result is […]