THE ILLUSTRATION ACADEMY

This week I played hooky for a few days to sit in on lectures at the Illustration Academy in Sarasota, Florida. The Academy assembles some...

SELLING OUT

Norman Rockwell recalled quite clearly the first time he sold out. Humiliated by his family's poverty, Rockwell resolved to make money a...

ILLUSTRATING INFINITY

"The unutterable and the formless must needs be concealed" . ................ --the Pythagorean brotherhood, circa 500 BCE Saul St...

DRAWING WITHOUT ELECTRICITY

The painter Margaret Keane married a real jerk. Early in her career, Keane created a popular style of painting children with huge, sad eyes...

Pieter Brueghel's masterpiece, The Tower of Babel, 1563 I do not call one greater and one smaller, That which fills its period and place...