I had a wood block sitting around that I had pulled a couple of proofs from years ago of brother and sister Sphynx cats named Syl and Vern. I had used an 11″ x 14″ block of pine that was … Read More
It’s Pi Day – March 14 – or 3-14. Last year with Pi approximated out to 3.1415 it also nailed the year. Larry Shaw, a physicist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, seems to be considered the first person to … Read More
It’s Edward Carey today because he has a piece in the ‘on-line’ New York Times book review section titled ‘Drawing Inspiration’ in which he opens with the name William Makepeace Thackery. First off WMT’s parents in 1811 decide to give … Read More
George Martin passed away yesterday. He was referred to as the fifth Beatle which I think is just about right as he had a significant influence on the group. He’s a man who looked like he got up in the … Read More
John Chilton’s obit (1933-2016) was in the New York Times today, an English trumpet player and writer / biographer. He died on February 25. The obituary that the Guardian put up was much better and the link is below. In … Read More
I’m posting a drawing today that I did of Jay Adams when he passed away two years ago of a heart attack. The thing that struck me was the starkly different images of him when he was a California blonde … Read More
The New York Times reports that the Associate Press reports that the Communist’s Party newspaper Granma reports that Ramon Castro passed away in the past day or two. In searching on images of the man he seemed like “a rather … Read More
Tim Cook under pressure from the FBI to provide a backdoor past the encryption of the phone used by one of the shooters in the recent San Bernardino attack. “At stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of … Read More
The late Alvin Lee. Ten Years After. Done in ball point pen with pencil crayon highlights. …dh
Van Cliburn was a 23 year old American pianist who won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958. The drawing is a caricature I did using a ballpoint pen. …dh