On Playing Telephone
Sloth and Manatee We are all playing a big planet-wide game of telephone, passing things on, and having them mutate just a little bit with each retelling....
On Lessons
Sloth and Manatee The time there was a disco ball up Sloth’s sleeve I come from a family of musicians. As such, I took piano lessons as a kid. I got to play...
On Penguins
Sloth and Manatee From Sloth and Manatee: Ocean Adventure There are no penguins in computers. There are no penguins in cameras, either. Or in books. The only...
On Signs
Sloth and Manatee There have been periods in my life when I have drawn and painted a lot of images of the backs of signs. Mostly long-enough-ago that there...
On Layers
Sloth and Manatee I am once again making rows of dots working my way from the bottom of the page to the top. I love doing this, because it makes me think of...
On Windows
Sloth and Manatee The Interdimensional Bloop Whenever I am in a city, and I see a building with lots of windows, I wonder about what is behind each and every...
On Stretching
Sloth and Manatee I recently made a little painting and the goal of the painting was for it to take all day to make it. Now it’s been a number of days, and...
On Bubble Charts
Special Announcement for Bay Area folk! I’m teaching an illustration class for teens/adults for 8 weeks in October/November at Richmond Art Center! Thursday...
On Curtains
Sloth and Manatee From Sloth and ManaTREE I was on a run the other day, having the random thoughts that I have on runs. This random thought was, basically we...
The Only One Who Knows
Sloth and Manatee There is only one person in all of creation, ever, who knows or knew what it was like to paint Van Gogh’s sunflowers, and that was Mr....
On Superstructures
Sloth and Manatee Our lil universe here has just been blooming and blooming, giving rise to things, and those things give rise to more things, and so on and...
On Abstraction
Sloth and Manatee Merriam-Webster says the word ‘abstract’ means, among other things, “expressing a quality apart from an object.” That sounds pretty good....
On Things That Go 'Ping'
Sloth and Manatee It is mighty important to seek out people and environments that make your brain fire off in ways that are good for you. For me that’s an...
On Our Own Two Feet
Sloth and Manatee Sometimes the world feels like a push-pull between seeing everything as connected, and then trying to separate some one thing out in order...
On Puttering
Sloth and Manatee I’m not sure where the term “puttering” came from, but I think I got it from my grandmother Irene. Because she was the master putterer...
On Horizons
Sloth and Manatee In the final shot of tons of movies, a character rides off, or drives off, or walks off, towards a distant sunset or skyline. The camera...
On Filters
Sloth and Manatee From Sloth and Manatee: Ocean Adventure I recently watched a movie from 1974 called “The Conversation” which stars Gene Hackman as a...
On Stringing Words Together
Sloth and Manatee Tardigrades with their friends in Sloth and (Moon)atee, also in honor of the 75th birthday of “wonderful Steve” The other day I was reading...
On Conversations
Sloth and Manatee All the Sloth and Manatee Comics are —> Here Conversations are weird and lumpy and start and stop and there’s repetition and facial tics...
On Water
Sloth and Manatee Water goes where it goes, according to its water self and its water rules. Until you’ve got an ocean or a river or a canyon or a drop...