To Catch a Thief (1955) – What was it about Grace Kelly that persuaded directors to pair her with leading men old enough to be her father? The three roles I know her best for were in High Noon (1952), in which 23-year-old Kelly was the wife of 51-year-old Gary Cooper; Rear Window (1954), in…
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FanX this weekend!
I’ll be participating in FanX in Salt Lake City this Thursday through Saturday. Here are my panels: When Where What With Whom Thursday 7pm 151A Art! Where to Start? How to get from doodling to sketching and from there to compositions. We all start somewhere and most of the time don’t have any direction on…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
So the biggest related news this week is that I’m not posting my sketches of the day to Facebook anymore. I’ve been getting progressively more irritated with the “All Your Face Are Belong To Us” mentality there, and the final straw was when it was discovered that you couldn’t post a link to an essay…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Here are the last two convention sketches I have around (offered for sale on my Etsy page): …and the rest of the week was content from my sketchbook:
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
It seems to be a good mode of operation, at least until I run out of convention sketches. One sketch from my sketchbook… …And the rest were convention sketches that I’ve thrown up for sale on my Etsy page. Feel free to mosey over there to see what’s still available.
Movies Seen Recently: The Relic, What About Bob?, Firewalker
The Relic (1997) – I have not read the novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child that this movie was based on, but I’m familiar enough with Preston & Child’s work to know that they characteristically include a veneer of plausibility to even the most outlandish premises (usually by meticulous, almost numbing research details —…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
A day late, but not at all short. One sketch from my sketchbook… …And the rest were convention sketches that I’ve thrown up for sale on my Etsy page. Feel free to mosey over there to see what’s still available.
The culture(s) we find ourselves in.
As with many people, I’m looking for reasons for the proliferation of mass shootings. Not scapegoats, mind; there is nothing to gain by blaming Trump’s rhetoric or guns or video games, since even just the shootings over this past week defy any correlation with those easy answers. (And anyone who says, “We must do something”…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Again, one sketch came from my sketchbook… …And the rest were convention sketches that I’ve thrown up for sale on my Etsy page. Feel free to mosey over there to see what’s still available.
Movies Seen Recently: Support Your Local Sheriff!, Viral, Sabata
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) – A breezy, light-hearted Western comedy, with James Garner in full James Garner mode as a man drifting through a tough gold-mining boomtown on his way to Australia and being offered the job of sheriff because he’s a crack shot and nothing seems to faze him. A large part of…