As you know I watch a lot of classic TV and paint classic TV characters. Star Trek is high on my list of favorites. When I found out William Shatner—Capt. Kirk himself—would be at the latest Hollywood Show in Burbank, I had to go. It was worth it. I had to wait in line for […]
Digital Channels Provide a Wealth of Products Since 2009 when TV went completely digital, one of the benefits was that broadcasters could use more bandwidth and essentially cram more channels into their piece of the spectrum. That means networks like NBC could create new channels (and new sources of income). They needed to fill up […]
I grew up in Southern California but not in the Los Angeles area so when I watched shows on tv that were filmed in and around LA I had a similar experience to those in other areas of the country that were watching the same shows. I had no idea what part of Los Angeles […]
I don’t have any triptychs (yet) although I did do a series of paintings from the old Ocean’s Eleven with Frank, Dean and Sammy which ideally are meant to hang together, but the process of hanging three paintings so that they’re all evenly spaced has plagued me for a while. I recently did a search […]
I love screen printing about as much as I do painting. There are a lot of similarities, but of course it’s a different medium and you have to keep a lot of different things in mind when printing. I got interested in screen printing years ago when I saw some Warhol-type images in one of […]
Painting a portrait of one of my favorite characters is a love/hate exercise. Invariably I hate the image at first because, well, it’s not finished and I want it to be. I see all the things that are wrong with it and need correcting. Then, at some point, there’s a moment where it all sort […]
