Brain Medicine & Drawing Instruction

Despite temps nearing 100 & rain threatening, I had a splendid morning at the Fleam: I found some great old textbooks & ephemera for cheap, as well as a handsome Visible Man model with at least most of his dainty little parts intact.

These ads are both from Primary Education magazine, January 1923.

I imagine being forced to teach drawing does sometimes result in dreadful mental strain. That's probably why the arts are disappearing from our schools, right? So maybe we just need to bring back Horsford's.

Visit the hidden lair of a mad artistic scientist!

Welcome to the Curious Art Lab!

I'm a very shy creature at heart & I have never been able to draw or paint with anyone looking over my shoulder. In fact, just hearing someone approach my studio door while I work causes all my creativity to grind to a halt.

But now, thanks to the mysterious powers of the internet, I've finally dared to invite folks in! I'll be posting sketches, sources, process pictures, maybe even a studio shot or two. I'll talk about ideas, intentions, materials, techniques, discoveries, 'druthers-- all the ingredients of my curious concoctions.

Feel free to poke about the Lab, & if you haven't yet wandered over to my original blog, Curious Art, please do!