All right all right all right, this is a post I’ve been meaning to do for a while. For nine years, I lived in Los Angeles, renting a room in San Fernando Valley and hustling in Hollywood. Now I…
I have recurring dreams. One of these recurring dreams is Jurassic Park. Why, oh why do I dream about Jurassic Park? It is one of my favorite movies, but I tell you now, it makes a terrible dream scenario, especially…
Yes. I saw The American Society for Magical Negroes trailer. I’m not going to talk about the trailer. What I do want to talk about is the very interesting reaction to it. It seems like there was a lot of…
This is a repost originally shared on Patreon. You can become a patron to receive regular updates on what I’ve got cooking behind the scenes. Confession: Before Christmas Day, I’d never seen The Color Purple. I’ve never told anyone. That’s…
This post is the follow-up to Lighting Dark Skin, Part One: Color and Light. If you haven’t read that already, check it out. In part one, I mainly focused on color theory. When I originally presented a quick overview of…
I’m writing this post because I feel like I should, but now that I’m here, I don’t know what I want to say. This week, I say goodbye to Coal. I guess it feels strange, because I’ve been waiting for…
I am trying to tackle some last-minute deadlines before I hop on the plane to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. LA has called me at last. I’ve avoided travel the last two years, haven’t been back since I…
After so many years, I’m still getting used to the social media thing. Here I am sitting at home, kicking myself for not taking any photos or videos at the FONA Native Plant Sale today. So alas, you’ll have to…
This topic confused some people the last time I brought it up, so let me be clear. This is an art post about how to observe and paint light and shadow on human figures with dark skin. It is not…
There’s this thing about Twitter. And I know, like, one of the weird quirks of Twitter is you’re in this space occupied by millions of other people the majority of whom you don’t know personally and will never know past…