On the Sky
Hey, I will have a table at Richmond Art Center’s annual Holiday Arts Festival on Sunday December 7th, I’m bringing some prints and books and friendliness -...
On the Octopus (Octopi)(Octopuses)
Sloth and Manatee Heyyy, Happy Day! In Sloth and (Moon)atee, the friends encounter a penguin who introduces them to an octopus, who is the manager of the...
On Knowing and Not Knowing
“When you start working, everybody is in your studio - the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas - all are there. But as...
On Hats
“If you can’t fight, wear a big hat.” -Spanish Proverb Sloth and Manatee Sloth and Manatee Page Brainwaves A couple classics, note the date! Best of...
On Being All Weird
Sloth and Manatee Captain Picard:Well, then, um... what did you do for your science projects? Patterson Supera:I planted radishes in this special dirt, and...
On Big Things
Sloth and Manatee Such a favorite page. The word “Big” is so interesting. It can be used to describe something physically, but also mentally, and also time-...
On Patterns
Sloth and Manatee Our world is made up of repeating, self-generating, re-generating patterns. There is a pattern for “leaf” and a pattern for “shadow.” There...
On Hiding and Also Showing
Sloth and Manatee There is a common wisdom that says, on any given day or week the one thing you do not ever, ever want to do is, to be the Main Character on...
On Gestures
Sloth and Manatee Going all around, every which way Are there people in your life that you can pick out of a crowd just by catching a glimpse of a bit of the...
On Attention
Sloth and Manatee So many things are spoken about attention nowadays… it’s the attention economy, you’ve got to reclaim your attention, attention is the...
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....