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What I've been up to in the studio

What I've been up to in the studio

I took a different approach with this portrait of my rockstar friend Pauli. I enjoy the free-form pen work and it has definite advantages, but it has its limitations as well. Working this way feels like painting with lines and the result is a lot more organic than straight hatching,

Everything I Need to Know About Dating I Learned on a Motorcycle

* Be comfortable on your own before bringing someone else along. * Go too slow and be left behind; go too fast and crash. * No matter how thrilled you are, never forget that you can be hurt badly. * No matter how careful you think you should be, never forget to have fun.

I Think of You in Black and White

[http://ghostdev.splicer.com/content/images/wordpress/2007/02/i_think_of_you_in_black_and_white.png] I finished this drawing about a week ago. I’d thought I’d finished it the week before, but I gave myself some time away from it with the notion that it

Rainbow Falls 5K

This morning’s DSE [http://www.dserunners.com/] run was the Rainbow Falls 5K [http://dserunners.com/schedule/2006/rainbow_falls_5k.html]. My left metatarsal is killing meâI limped the last half of the run. It’s odd how difficult it can be sometimes to gauge my pace.

What's the next step?

For years I’ve used the Palm as a laptop replacement. As tempting as the convergence devices may have been, I kept to a separate phone and palmtop, and relied on cables or Bluetooth to keep them in touch. In the last couple of years I’ve found myself using

T-minus eight days, we are a go for liftoff

In trying to make the decision whether to run the US Half Marathon [http://ushalf.com/] in eight days, I took the last chance to do a longish run to try it out before I have to take it easy with shorter distances for the next week. I ran roughly

My first Open Studios declared success

My first Open Studios declared success

I’ve been pretty busy over the past few weeks. I’ve been working on a drawing and diving in to that process with a level of discipline that I’ve rarely exhibited, and I’ve been preparing myself for opening my studio to large numbers of people looking to