Ancient in every sense of the word: dug up from my personal archive from 1992 apparently. Ooh my, when I was a “wee little one” in secondary school. Like last week’s offering, I drew this after a picture from our history or Greek textbook, I’m pretty sure. I never had the guts to sit in […]
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The other day I was browsing through my older work and tossing a lot of stuff. Some drawings made the cut and are still around, others only got a picture and then got tossed anyway. Most of it just went straight for the recycling. You can’t keep everything. But I have enough to entertain you
In case anybody ever needed proof I went to a catholic school, this is the kind of stuff I drew, apparently, around age 6 or 7. Because you draw what happened that week. Or what you were told to draw. Apparently we went to church 😹 I am struck by how I forgot to outline
Sometimes, I’m just so darn good they can’t believe it… But I think the lighting in our art class studio of an evening is not the greatest, and it kind of helps me: Gentle reader, I acknowledge that I have a decent starting base, and that my powers of shading are coming back and it
I’m with Squirrel…but for different reasons. (I mainly worry about falling off the treadmill). I really do NOT like those hamster wheels for humans, and unlike other people I routinely run slower and less far on them than I do outside. In June I was forced onto one due to the Lehigh Valley reaching the
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Radio blackbird has been travelling, and I’ve been trying to capture some impressions over the past few days. On Monday I went to the National Portrait Gallery to meet an old friend and took the longer route via the early (white) American history section, and here is a quick ink drawing. The portraits are based
Earlier this year I heard Prof. Yuhua Wang in a podcast talk about his memories as a young primary school student of 1989. He was sent home in late May, and on his way back saw tanks rolling through the streets. I don’t know if those were the Type 59 tanks that are in the
Welcome to the new subscribers for the email alerts, and apologies there have been so few (if any) updates. This is 15 min sketch of the current situation here at the Radio Blackbird headquarters: it’s very busy with other things!
One of the core philosophies in my teaching was to move away from single-use or disposable assignments, and move to something more durable. Let’s face it: students create too many essays that disappear into a digital drawer at the end of the semester, never to be seen again. Their labour gets a grade, but it
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Even in my department I occasionally have had to explain that “No, me teaching the Shang dynasty is not playing on home terrain. That’s like a historian of nineteenth century Europe teaching about emperor Augustus and the Roman empire, mkay?” Feel free to replace that with a similar 1800-2000 year interval of your choice. Chinese
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