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2013-05-22 15:37:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Thanks, Egan. How are you? Are you still doing the psychedelic looking pen drawings?

2013-05-21 16:36:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Good interview with painter John Walker on +Hyperallergic 

I had a studio visit from Walker years ago during my Fine Art masters, and it was one of the most valuable hours I had...

2013-05-21 15:42:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

This place is on an island in the middle of the Mississippi River, and it has great pizza.

My wife and I own a house 140 miles due west of Chicago, which we use as an occasional weekend artists' retreat. Drive another ten miles west, and you reach the Mississippi. Drive across a bridge to a little island/peninsula called Sabula, and you can find this funky place called Bombfire Pizza. The VW van that's had a chunk taken out of the middle and welded back together is indicative of the taste and style of the interior. The guy who owns this place built a big brick oven out back, in which he makes pizzas which, to be honest, are better than anything I've tasted in Chicago. It's officially in Iowa, but it's less than three hours drive from Chi-town.

2013-05-20 16:18:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Open studio at the Cornelia Arts Building, Chicago, May 10

Here is an album of pictures I took during the open studio last week. There were musicians, though they had to play indoors because it was unexpectedly chilly. It seems that my eye was caught mostly by abstract painting this time, but I also saw drawings, some nice figurative paintings, ceramic pieces, and photography.

2013-05-18 20:22:13 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Today's work in my studio consisted of...

Adding more boxes with prints on them to the wall of Cuban-derived images;

Creating another cardboard machine for the stop-motion animation project.

Next up: doing lithographic prints on the surfaces of all the cardboard machinery and buildings.

2013-05-17 21:16:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Great student work in this class I just taught at Columbia College Chicago

2013-05-17 14:30:50 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

20 second fingertip drawing with Android Sketchpad, from Chicago L train

2013-05-16 15:56:51 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Grr! How do you get a photo you upload to display across three columns instead of one?

2013-05-16 15:50:55 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Trying the photo new photo viewer again with a wider format photo (work in progress in my studio)

2013-05-16 15:06:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

The work in progress corner of my studio at the Cornelia Arts Building open studios.

2013-05-16 01:01:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Come on, you know you love my cat photos...

2013-05-15 20:14:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Excellent print and process. Now please grow the hair, for real.

2013-05-15 20:08:16 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Marvellous. When will I be able to embed a slideshow of a photo album in a blog post on Blogger?

2013-05-14 16:57:38 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

My cat, Pablo. Insert heart-shaped emoticons here, please...

2013-05-14 14:44:21 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

+Kevin Swallow: maybe I'll elongate it and make it into the shape of Cuba

2013-05-13 22:09:01 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Well, I had an open studio last week at which as I thought the big cigar box print piece did not sell. So I decided to make it even bigger...

2013-05-13 02:16:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Images from the penultimate Journal and Sketchbook class of this semester...

2013-05-12 23:14:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I know both of these artists ...

... and here is a nice appreciation of one of those artists by another.

2013-05-11 14:53:51 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Do you rub the washi with fingers or with a brush?

2013-05-10 23:15:45 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

The work in progress corner of my studio at the Cornelia Arts Building open studios.

2013-05-09 17:34:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Another great entry on this printmaking blog...

2013-05-09 14:41:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

For Sale

As an artist on G+, I’ve spent the past two years trying to strike a balance between posting images of my own work, and sharing the work of other artists, particularly by posting interviews with creators of various kinds via my blog. I have never tried to sell my work, or indicated any kind of price on the images that I’ve posted.

So this is highly unusual for me, and I intend to do this only once, but here is a work currently in my studio that I am trying to find a buyer for. 

Details: “Hecho en Cuba”, mixed media prints on Japanese paper and cigar boxes, assembled on a custom-made base panel. Size: 72” x 72” x 6”. Date: 2003. Price: $6000. 

7000 people have added me to their Circles. If any of you are living in the USA and would like to purchase this piece – or if you know anyone who might – I willarrange for it to b... more »

2013-05-07 02:30:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Latest episode of Mad Men season 6? Finally, we have lift off.

2013-05-06 03:08:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I've added some pictures to this album showing cardboard factories and machines for a stop motion animation project. Mainly smoke clouds to the chimneys.

2013-05-04 19:16:43 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

New studio furniture, got this for fifty of your dollars....

2013-05-04 03:04:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Very excellent.

2013-05-03 17:29:24 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

Contour drawing, landscape; neocolor pastels on paper. #firstfridayartwalk

2013-05-01 16:19:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

New Interview, with Chicago (and soon to be New Mexico) -based artist Nancy Charak...

2013-04-30 12:51:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Nimen hao!

2013-04-29 23:17:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Lots of photos and explanatory information about my return to intaglio printmaking -- my first full-on etching on steel in ten years...

2013-04-29 18:10:01 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Spring has finally arrived in Chicago. About effing time

2013-04-27 15:36:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Cleaning an acrylic resist off a steel plate using vinegar and salt. Sabroso!

2013-04-27 15:17:27 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Studio still life. Materials for nontoxic printmaking (eg sugarlift aquatint) and clean-up. They may be less toxic to me and the environment, but they are certainly harmful to the wallet.

2013-04-27 03:26:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My report from a lovely little fair devoted to works on paper. #Montreal   #artfair   #paper   #drawings   #printmaking   #Quebec   #Papier13  

2013-04-26 17:14:00 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

If you do not like a painting, score it, cut it, and fold it. (Part 3).

2013-04-26 00:34:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

See if you can identify all the pictures in this blog post. I couldn't, despite the fact that I only saw them today...

2013-04-25 17:54:13 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Waiting for the L, 20 second android sketchpad drawing.

2013-04-24 19:06:01 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Here is a blog post created on my Samsung S3 directly from the studio. Now let me work, will you!?

2013-04-24 12:03:55 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Another one I thought I'd posted that doesn't show up anywhere. 2013. No name yet.

2013-04-23 23:45:52 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Waaaaah!

2013-04-23 21:13:56 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

My latest selection of studio views for +Hyperallergic , including an amazing story from Fairfax, Virginia.

2013-04-23 16:38:08 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Here is a new interview on my blog, this time with sculptor and witty Tweeter Seth Friedman. It's number 26 in the series I call Six of the Best, in which I pose the same six questions about work, process, and creativity to a range of artists...

2013-04-23 00:17:58 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

So far, Google's new cross-posting of comments between G+ and my blog is working out really well. Lots of nice cross-pollination, and people who I know read my blog but haven't yet joined G+ may get that extra enticement.

2013-04-22 22:41:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Enrique está cansado.

2013-04-22 19:26:19 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Been playing around with the camera on my new Samsung Galaxy SIII in my studio:

2013-04-22 16:14:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Old man in restaurant, Android Sketchpad fingertip drawing.

2013-04-21 02:45:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

A late entry for #caturday : Pablo's back legs.

2013-04-20 17:17:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

View of the L tracks next to my studio building in Chicago. Urban!

2013-04-19 18:47:42 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Last week I showed a class of college students in a mixed writing/drawing class how to make artist's books. It always goes down well - you can see eyes widening at the possibilities for creativity that it opens up.

2013-04-19 18:23:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"I’m afraid to close it
when I’m done with it,
there are baby teeth down there, beetles
in the hollow of a doll’s head." | #poetry   #bluesafari   #safari   #fridayreading