TODAY'S FEATURED POST
a Thanksgiving story
Don’t have much art that I can show at the moment, so I thought I’d treat you to a fun thanksgiving story. This one time, years ago back when I was just starting out, a friend of mine reached out to me with a prospective illustration job. It was 1996, I was living in El Paso Texas, before I’d moved to San Francisco and gone to art school. Art jobs were scarce and you took…
YESTERDAY’S POST
The Third Self
August 8, 2024 - As creatives develop through their career, we gather influences. Some influences are short-lived — personal trends that catch our eye for a moment and are discarded — and some are long-lasting. The longest lasting become kind of a council in our mind. Work that you can go back to again and again and get new insights out of. I think we can all name a number of artists that make up this special curated garden for us. Many of us do the same with authors. There are people I have never met but who I consider as important an influence on my mind and philosophy as the therapist I see every week. If you go back through my Muddy Colors posts, you can easily see some names repeat again and again — Joseph Campbell, Carl…
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