Blog

1. ArtRage Vitae Mobile: Basics

   16 Apr 2021
   In this video  I show you how to create a canvas, use the oils brush, paint tube and palette knife. Features are also in the ArtRage Mobile  Classic but are smoother and more powerful in the new ArtRage Mobile Vitae. Available now on iOS and Google Play. 

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2. Client Work: My Invisalign Journey

   05 Nov 2020
   In collaboration with The Center For Esthetic Dentistry I created an artistic time lapse video of my Invisalign process. This involved created the art in Procreate and putting all the frames in iMovie to create the narrative. A script was created, I recorded voiceover and added music to bring it…

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3. Portrait Art: Desiree Robinson

   05 Sep 2020
   It’s been a few months since I created any digital portrait paintings so I decided to create this one of my stepdaughter, Desiree. I started with a rough sketch, refined it and then worked on the rough painting until I was happy with it. One of the most important factors…

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4. Bake Your Day Series: Olive Oil Cake

   28 Jul 2020
   Today I’m starting a new series of paintings on food art. I’m collaborating with my friend and fellow creator, Amanda Glover (Amanda Bakes) to create illustrations based on her delicious recipes. This is our second collaboration since we published the recipe book, Sweetie Bake Your Day. (Which is available here.)…

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5. Citrus

   26 Jul 2020
   I’ve stayed busy during COVID with photography, videography and freelance illustration. What I didn’t create was any artwork for myself. So, I let myself go through this space and found inspiration through a website called Unsplash. After gathering reference photos I decided to get back into creating food paintings. This…

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6. Little Robots

   10 Mar 2020
   Recently I decided to “reboot” my Little Robots comic series. I began the series in 2012 and it was in the same vein as a Sunday strip. My inspirations were Japanese manga, The Peanuts and The Boondocks. I continued it for several years before letting it go and focusing other…

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7. Seattle Superman

   27 Feb 2020
   Wow, I haven’t blogged in a long time. Today I’m adding something new and making a commitment to posting on a more regular basis. Jonathan Belle aka The Black Superman or Seattle Superman is a cosplayer, photographer, traveler and just an inspiration. I’ve been following his account on Instagram for…

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8. Graphic Recording of Monday’s at The Beinecke

   31 Oct 2019
   Here’s my second graphic recording of a talk at Yale. I decided to attend a gallery talk at The Beinecke. The talk was on films by Gil Wolman, censorship and pushing the boundaries in the 1950s. Since this was a very brief talk (15 minutes) I captured a few main…

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9. Graphic Recording of James Nachtwey’s Talk at Yale

   24 Oct 2019
   Yesterday I attended the talk “James Nachtwey: Visiting Artist in Photography” at The Yale School of Art. I created a live illustration on my Apple iPad using the Procreate app. I captured James’s amazing lecture about his war photography. What I love about graphic recording is that in enriches the…

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10. Engagement

    27 Aug 2019
    This is not the ring I meant to propose with. It was an option I had in mind. She discovered it in the mail and I played it off like I wasn’t considering it. I had been planning to propose to my girlfriend for the better part of six months…

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