As in, I bought a lot of it on ebay.

My hope? That this is NOT a lifetime supply.

What it IS, is a lot of raw ingredients for continuing to mix and tube my Munsell colors.

So I’m just getting my head back on here after IMC 2010. It was a strong start and a weak finish, as I’ve documented: on the last day, I had to wipe out my entire painting and start over because the grisaille hadn’t dried (in the darks) and it was impossible to work on. I [...]

“Embrace failure” has been one of the memes of the week, mentioned in a few instructor lectures. I’m doing so in a big way today. After a mostly-sleepless night following a few days of futility, I just took a turp rag to the painting and wiped the whole thing off, back to the drawing layer. [...]

Not a lot to show today: the bulk of the day was spent dealing with copy shops, enlarging the drawing, matting it to plywood, dealing with the humidity and lack of sun, giving up and going to buy a fan to blast it dry, and waiting and waiting and waiting. It’ll be dry in the [...]

That’s right: my sketch was approved, with only some minor value adjustments. Rebecca cleared me to move to paint tomorrow. I’ll enlarge the 9×12 drawing to 18×24 and mount it to the plywood board, and I could potentially be starting a value underpainting tomorrow night if it dries fast enough. This is very good news. [...]

Time for the Illustration Master Class again, right here in my home town of Amherst, MA. Check-in is tonight, and sketch reviews start in the morning.

While this weeklong class is much more oriented around the commercial / publishing world, and is more about getting assignments (book covers and so forth) cranked out quickly with [...]