Deep Time: Painting is an Out-of-Body Experience
Here's what I've been working on for the past couple of weeks: I'd been doing a few scenes that act as a prelude to this moment--very...
Andrew Loomis Is The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds
I never thought drawing feet could get so philosophical—or so contentious. Sometimes you get students in your art class who have already...
Massacre of the Innocents
For a few centuries, history painting was considered the pinnacle of art. These epic paintings portrayed "important" moments from the...
War Is Kind: A Graphic Short Story
Everyone has war on their minds now. I'm thinking about how much I hate what Russia is doing to Ukraine--and I'm hating how racist the...
Deep Time: Using My Visual Library
This week I'm sharing another image from Deep Time, a wordless novel I'm creating about a little dinosaur from Jurassic China named...
Art I Love: I Am A Bunny by Richard Scarry
This is why I love painting. It stills the world and condenses experience into a single potent image that allows us to reencounter...
Art for the 1%: Why Most People Hate "Modern" Art
There are many reasons why the average person detests contemporary "fine" art. Most of the reasons can be summed up by this sculpture,...
Genius and the Art of Children
What does this picture mean? I’ve been thinking about it ever since I saw it again, after many decades. It’s in a 1975 book I read again...
Deep Time: A Wordless Novel in Progress
For the past four years I've spent most of my creative energies on a project I call Deep Time. It's the story of a recently-discovered...
Art I Love: The Dying Lioness
She's originally from the palace of Nineveh, the citadel of the last great king of the Assyrians, Ashurbanipal. Around the years 645-635...
