CHRONICLES archives the successive newsletters.
... IS, WELL, WHAT YOU SEE Or The Lego Box View of the World of Yore and a Few Other Considerations I’ve been spending a lot of time leafing through old atlases and encyclopedias, both physically and on the net, and have become enamoured of the various and varying...
Or Mountains and Molehills of the Mind The other day, walking outdoors was like stepping into a picture. The lake and precocious moon were by Aivasovsky. Not turbulent enough to try as a Turner, but there was a hint of mist courtesy of Caspar David Friedrich. The...
(And Some Curious Thin Tetracentennial Men, as well as Some Stone Dwarfs) The other day, on a business trip (I love saying “business trip”, it makes this cockeyed profession of drawing pictures sound somehow actually respectable) to the Alsace, we took a couple of...
Or The Lowdown on Pencil Management and Some Thoughts on Things To Come ImagineFX Something to read, from the December issue of fantasy magazine ImagineFX, with a portrait of Grendel’s Mum, the lowdown on pencils and a few words about architecture, triviality and...
DECEMBER 22, 2007 I’ll be signing books and such at the Librairie la Bulle, in Fribourg, Switzerland on December 22nd, from 5:30 p.m. to closing time , around 7 p.m. (This is the only one before Christmas, more will be following, but in the spring, when Fantasy Art...
Or One Author’s Trip to the Woods To me, writers are mysterious creatures. They make things with words. Pictures are easy, kids do them without thinking. Words are harder, as it implies keeping that gift of spontanteous espression, but using a sophisticated and...
Or the Perilous Pertinence of Perspicacity Premeditated (Or Exercises in Applied Floccinaucinihilipilificatiousness) I’m often told I’ve got my “head in the clouds”. While that’s clearly metaphorical, or at least I dearly hope so, I recently had the opportunity to get...
Or the Fine Art of Pentimento, Peccadillo and Palimpsest Occasionally, a picture goes awry. Some images have tales to tell independantly to what’s actually pictured in them, some come a long way, and many abruptly come to a premature conclusion. The snapshot of the...
Or Talking About Somebody ELSE’S Work for a Change Occasionally I am given the opportunity to write a preface for a book of another artist’s work. It’s an exercise I thoroughly enjoy, an opportunity to pry up the cowling and peek in at the inner workings of another...
Or Of The Topography of Tesseracts and the Ineffable Benefits of Entasis I spend a fair bit of time pondering the imponderables (that’s why it takes time) of fantasy imagery. Fantasy imagery has been happening for a long time. In fact no culture, ever, has created...
Or Ages Dark & Light New books are always a welcome event, especially as they provide an excuse to briefly escape from the studio and get out into the rest of the world a moment. (Like many illustrators, the time spent proportionately in the former as opposed to...
Or Determining How Many Words a Picture is Really Worth at Current Market Value I’ve often considered that artists should be subject to restraining orders, forbidding them to approach any closer than 100 yards to writing about their ownwork. Alas, I am a convicted and...