Back from late May and a sneaking suspicion that many of my students might have started losing interest in school... funny that since SO man...

It this time of social distancing, I have been closer to my family than just about anything else. Finally coming around to online social obl...

Getting a little ahead of myself, but I've been sitting on Episode 12 for several days now due to problems with uploading... Anyway, no....

One of those silent strips where I hopefully got the expressions and gestures telling most of the story :) Spring rain is good in the arid w...

In this video I demonstrate an observational drawing challenge using sad faces. Sometimes in class we would draw quickly, switch poses, ...

In 1972 my little western town of Winthrop, WA decided to re-brand as a wooden boardwalk, "western" in the old fashioned send of t...

The final polar bear post card painting from my B.E.A.R chat video late last week. If you want to see this painting in action take a scro...

Birthday week for Thor! And Kit too, for that matter, one day after dad :) That's a LOT o' miles riding the good 'ole planet ...

An Earth Day comic from the slopes of Harts Pass! The four steps listed here are the same used by my wife's Methow Conservancy "...

A little watercolor demo and the progress painting of a polar bear postcard :) Trying to establish an “art exchange” with other regional s...

This past weekend I painted polar bear. It made me happy. Enough said. Enjoy!

In this video: A DRAWING CHALLENGE! Watch something. Study it. Spend 10-20 minutes just observing. Afterwards, go back to your paper or ske...

Lucky for us we have a new puppy and a nearly seventeen year old who have lots of positive "keep busy" energy and occasionally ...

It's totally true, logging is like social distancing :) And in this case for a similar purpose. The distance between tree makes it ha...

Kit Courageous, defender of childhood and bravest wolverine around! Kit last made an appearance in these pages during the Carlton Complex...

OK, sometimes a hug is all it takes. I mean, a socially distanced hug if necessary at this point -- but a REAL hug if you can get it!

A quick intro from Mr. Brooks plus two different DAILY DRAWINGS from the ART IS... prompts #10 "terrified" and #11 "unite...

Following up on our value scale with pencil (Episode 6) this video demonstrates creating a range of light-to-dark with a single color. I c...

In this episode I do a quick demo of ART IS... prompt no. 4: VALUE STUDIES. This is some very basic practice for shading light to dark. For...

A narrated "live drawing" demo of the first two "Daily Drawing" prompts from ART IS... This one is a little longer, b...