Tag Archives: pen and ink

I Was a Teenage Couch Potato

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Joe

I have a studio with a drafting table, drawing lamp and everything I would need, but it seems inspiration strikes me best when I am sitting on a couch with a sketchbook in my lap while trash streams on my … Continue reading →

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Finishing something I started…

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Joe

…a long, long time ago. Over this Christmas just past, I inked in a pencil drawing I drew sometime in the mid-1980s. I found a variation (pictured above) of that drawing which I penciled in 1986. I’m not sure why … Continue reading →

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Canson XL Mixed Media Pad 7 x 10 inches

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Joe

I’m still working on this sketchbook. It’s not finished, but I thought I would talk a bit about it this week. This is a similar sketchbook to the one I recently finished off in that it’s a mixed media pad … Continue reading →

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Playing with the New Toys

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Joe

I continue to sit on my couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling my grotesques into the night, but now I am adding some new tools into the mix. I have been playing with the terrific Sailor Fude De … Continue reading →

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Sign of the Times

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Joe

Back in 1991, I got a freelance assignment illustrating an article on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder for a local paper. Everybody knows what OCD is now, but I was unfamiliar with it at the time. It seemed that new manias and … Continue reading →

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