I just got back from teaching a workshop in the Chicago area. It was a great group and we had a fun time drawing together all weekend! I’ve only got two open spots in my remaining 2024 workshops, one here in Minnesota and one in Phoenix. I just announced my first one for 2025 in Tampa, FL, and there will be a handful more in 2025. Reserve a spot ASAP before they sell out! READ MORE
Giants of entertainment keep dropping like flies lately. Just when I thought we would be getting back to our “Famous Movie Moments” series another legend passes. Bob Newhart was a favorite in my family. I listened to his comedy albums as a kid, and I remember watching “The Bob Newhart Show” with my parents in the mid 70’s. The later show “Newhart” was a favorite of mine as a young adult in the mid to late 80s. Both those shows were great successes and long running, popular sitcoms. He also starred in a couple of short-lived, mostly forgotten shows, but those hardly diminished his legacy.… READ MORE
Shelley Duvall starred in two of my favorite movies, “The Shining” and “Popeye”, and her performances in both are big reasons why they are favorites of mine. So, I had to take another pause in my “Famous Movie Moments’ series to draw Ms. Duvall as “Olive Oil”. RIP Ms. Duvall. READ MORE
The first of my 2025 workshops is all set! I’ll be in Tampa in January, skipping the snow and cold in Minnesota to draw with up to 12 artists for a full weekend! Click here for the details and to join in! READ MORE
Our “Famous Movie Moment” this week is both a notorious and infamous one. It’s Sharon Stone in the “leg crossing” interrogation scene in “Basic Instinct”, where it’s obvious Ms. Stone is not wearing any underwear when she switches her crossed legs. It’s notorious as being the (allegedly) most paused moment in home video history. It’s infamous because Stone claims she was asked to remove her underwear because of some lighting issues, and she only did it with the assurance that the shot would be dark/shadowy enough that no nudity would be visible. Director Paul Verhoeven claims he told her exactly what the shot going to… READ MORE
I’ve had several sudden cancellations for my workshop here in Minnesota taking place Sept 7-8 in nearby Eagan. Three spots are now open for a workshop that has been sold out for months. These are the only workshop spots still available for 2024. If you were ever considering doing one of these and are nearby or don’t mind traveling, the workshops I have here in Minnesota are by far the best ones to take, if for no other reason than the extra night of fun and camaraderie I host on the Friday night before the workshop weekend. The hotel I do the workshop in is… READ MORE
It’s back to our “Famous Movie Moments” series with this sketch of Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya from “The Princess Bride” at the moment he finally comes face to face with the “six-fingered man”. “Hallo! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Trying to think up some of these iconic moments in film to do caricature sketches from I realized I did a lot of such moments in Desmond Devlin and my book of movies parodies, CLAPTRAP. This one included! Only Des wrote the parody of “Princess Bride” as a musical (i.e. “sing to the tune of…”. Here’s the page… READ MORE
Time for another moronic Monday edition of MADness, and another step on our way to the precipice that ends our look back at my work for MAD magazine. This week we have a gander at the second of the two “MAD 20″ pieces I did for MAD #549 (Feb 2018). It was another of the “MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2017″, and called for me to imitate the look of the video game graphics of “Clash of Clans”. Here’s the pencil: Not much to add here. It was a pretty straightforward job. I had to render Trump and Kim Jong-Un in the… READ MORE
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