Suggestions to enhance your daily drawing experience–keep your notebook ready and your pen filled!
Draw Your Breakfast
Robert Beck: Tip-Top Shoes
You can tell that things happen in this place because it feels like you’ve been there, and that’s the bones of an engaging narrative. I call it a heartbeat.
Featured Artist: Angie Renfro
It speaks to the things that aren’t said. There’s a story that’s not being told, which adds a layer of interest to the pieces
November Issue, 2022
A collection of all the articles we published last month for those who like their magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Necropolis, a film by Marc Reed
Most of my videos are of lost and forgotten places, and while visiting these places I have often pondered the people that once inhabited them. Who were they…where are they? To a large extent they are here. These are the inhabitants of my “drowned worlds.”
Quick and Flupke (and why I love Tintin)
There’s a lovely lightness to the strips, a freedom, but as with all the best comic strips, (or all my favorite) underneath the lightness is a depth of honesty and humanity.
Gabriela Domville: Preserve Collection
Gabriela Dombille’s thought-provoking Preserve Collection asks questions about our relationship to nature and about our often-deadly fascination with the mechanics of beauty and of life itself.
Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village
On one level, Bottle Village was, literally, a constructive approach to transforming discard and sorrow into something more.
Featured Artist: Kent Ambler
“I find myself working from a combination of observation, memory, and intuition.”
Sea Creatures Stared at Us and We Stared Back at Them
With its mix of musical styles, languages, accents, and voices, the album is a perfect tribute to the witty and self-deprecating, pretty and noisy, relatable and strange, hopefully despondent music of Jeffrey Lewis.
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