Keys to Drawing

I loved to draw as a little girl until my grade 5 art teacher held one of my “creations” up in front of my sister’s class (she was very talented) and said, “can you believe they’re sisters?”. I was crushed and other than in art class, I never picked up a pencil again.

Fast forward 20 years where I see Bert Dodson’s book “Keys to Drawing”. I remembered how I used to love to draw and bought it on impulse. I started at page 1 and progressed through the book. The day my sister (the artist) walked into my house and seeing the drawing I was working on said, “nice drawing of Louis Armstrong” was one of the best moments of my life. By the way that was a drawing of Satchmo I was working on. Read more »

Bay Area Graffiti

Like the region it hails from, this compilation is cool, colorful and idiosyncratic and will appeal to anyone interested in graffiti, photography, the San Francisco Bay Area, and especially art and the creative process.
While serving as serious documentation of a specific art form, the book also has a refreshing sense of playfulness (check out the upper right-hand photo on page 40, for example).
In addition to Read more »