A while back I wrote some posts that named several alternatives to galleries as a result of my frustration with the limited parameters o...

Yo Yo Guy . I saw this man in the park messing with a yo yo. He's a red-head so the amazing hair and mustache you see were bright pa...

 Flavia Dzodan at TigerBeatDown posted an essay about Lana Del Ray and how she embodies the phase in most girls' lives when they yearn...

Husband driving at night. This was drawn in the dark in a moving vehicle. [Image: pen drawing, mostly contour, of the head ad shoulders of...

My friend's cat, Jazz. Drawn while he was 'hunting.' [image: black & white pen drawing of the head and shoulders of a crou...

Sorry for the dearth of posts lately. I don't intend for this blog to become a diary of my daily feelings -- thank God-- but I'm fe...

Jean Dujardin as OSS 117, drawn while watching OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies . I'm a little disappointed with this one. [Image: black ...

Fran Lebowitz, by Ciana Pullen. Charcoal, 2012. You may reproduce this but only for noncommercial purposes and you must include easily v...

This might be the dumbest link I have EVER posted. It also might be my favorite . Just one example of what awaits you at the link. [Im...

Husband Watching Walking Dead. [Image: black & white charcoal drawing of head & shoulders of white man nearly in profile. He's...

I absolutely loved this essay on The Beheld by beauty blogger Autumn Whitefield-Madrano, who recently went a month without looking at her o...

Portrait of my cat sitting under an arrangement of white Asian chrysanthemums and baby's breath in a spaghetti sauce jar. She hea...

Tuppence, from Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence . I'm actually pretty proud of this one. Caricatures are way harder than rea...

Portrait of my husband while he tells a story. [image: ink drawing of a white man's head with is forehead resting on his fist looking ...

Scheming evil genius Brain (of Pinky & The Brain ) spoofs Orson Welles' charismatic but deadly dishonest villain in The Third Man...

Melissa Harris-Perry on the Colbert Report . Drawn from the video clip below. I watched the clip over and over because it took me a while ...

Lily Tomlin as Violet in 9 to 5 . This was drawn from a movie still (I edited out Dolly and Jane, unfortunately. Too much for this drawing...

Carmen Tisch. Drawn from a photo in a press release, either a mugshot or similar. [Image: black & white realistic charcoal drawing of ...

Gina from the Agatha Christie/ Miss Marple movie, They Do It With Mirrors. Again, I drew her while the movie was playing, so it's a co...

Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. Drawn over the course of a film as the action unfolded, so it's really more of a Marple composite. [Image...

Portrait of My Husband While He Falls Asleep Watching Cartoons In Bed. [Image: a collage made of magazine pages in a square format. Horizo...

Detail of a portrait for a client. [Image: close-up crop of a white man's face smiling and wearing classes, looking up and to the righ...

Portrait of a Woman Inhaling. Drawn from a photo, an extra reference pic that my client sent me. [Image: Black & white charcoal drawin...

My God, what an awful portrait. The friend, in real life, looks much less like a pirate, nothing like a cone-headed Burt Reynolds, nor doe...

Detail of a portrait for a client. [Image: close-up crop of a woman's smiling face in black & white charcoal, realistic and somewh...

I loved this post up at Leaving Evidence. The author asks, what happens if we stop chasing beauty and start embracing our own ugliness as ...

Another portrait for a client, so I'm just posting a detail. Chalk pastel, 14 x 17." [Image: a very young baby with closed eyes r...

I fucked up! I didn't draw today. But I spent considerable time photographing work I did in December, and especially on this one, edit...

There's a post up at What Tami Said about Straw Dogs and the violence therein. She read some reviews that ascribed "challenge...

Self-portrait while dying my hair. Marker and chalk pastel, 11 x 14." [Image: head and shoulders of a youngish white woman (me) in lo...