Meadow Glen barn

The best cole slaw recipe

I only post recipes that I make up and are simple, easy, and cheap. I’m a terrible cook because I’m impulsive, lazy, and AADHD. However, this one usually works: Half a cabbage, cut up however you like it. I sliver mine with a razor sharp Global. 1 TBs Sesame Oil 2 TBs Rice Vinegar 1 […]

New MacBook OLE Keyboard thing

Finally figured out a reason to like this thing. I stopped using function keys for years, once it became necessary to hold FN to modify them so you weren’t, like, turning the volume down. Sure, you could set it up so they would behave normally, but then you had to hold FN to, like, turn […]

Dumb comic

Birds

Jones Beach gouache painting

Loyola Marymount

This is for my Uncle Billy. He’s not feeling too great so I’m sending it to him.

Small gouache painting of lakefront

Canoes

Small gouache and graphite on arches paper

An old monoprint

Digging through my old stuff, and thought this was nice:

Studio window

I have a bunch of birds that hang out in the trees outside my studio window. I got my good camera geared up with a zoom lens and I try to take photos when I see them. Still getting used to the camera, so expect improvements over time. Here’s the latest:

A couple of oldies

Took some picks for my sister of old stuff I did. Here are a couple I forgot about.

Purchase days

Typography sucks on screen

We’re in an odd place with the whole typography thing. Most people who look at computers on a daily basis have an idea of what fonts are. They just have no idea about how beautiful they can be. The reason is that screens suck. They are either too low resolution (we can see the pixels) […]

Frottage

This was one of the first techniques I learned when I began art school, back in fall ’89. It was eye-opening. For the first time, I wasn’t responsible for every nuance that came along. The surface dictated what marks were left. Suddenly, I felt a sense of freedom from that burden of decision in art; […]

Fonts I’ve made

Crystal Beach Pier

A couple more paintings from this summer, based on memory of the busted up pier that juts out into the point at Crystal Beach, Ont.

Event Speaker doodles

I’ve done a fair amount of these over the years. About time I put them all in one place.

Crystal Beach and Bay Beach Club Anchors

Some drawings I did in summer 2016, trying to come up with a logo or t-shirt idea for the Bay Beach Club in Ontario, Canada.

Views of Crystal Beach