William

My wife says I don't do enough artwork about my youngest son. I'm not sure how much this helps that problem, but it was a lovely moment.

Equal Sized Canisters

I was working on some production pots this week. A group of canisters with lids. It's tricky to get them all the same size and weight, but I think the set works.

Quick Painting Trick

How do professional illustrators create paintings so fast? Well, grids, projection, light tables: there all great but sometimes the easiest fix is to just print out your photograph and paint on top of it. I used this technique to teach students how to convert colors of an image to just primary and secondary colors. (makes images much brighter and teaches color mixing) This was my example.

Pantograph

I had a student who wanted to try a pantograph. I hadn't even seen one since junior high school, but in the end it was easy enough to make with some scrap wood, dowel rods and a drill. This is what it's good for. I drew this in 14 minutes and it rescaled the image about 125%