Author Archives: jada

well..nothing much has happened since i last wrote here..ho hum..just one thing or another..covid stuff…bank failures..you know just the usual…but the main thing..i am STILL working on this graphic novel…still still still…and unless i stop constantly changing the plot, it will never get done…so..i have started painting small things to break the monotony!!

Paul Krassner was a special friend…Except for occasional internet meets, i have missed him ever since he left New York and moved to California. Crap. Crap. And double Crap!

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Here is the second prompt “Beauty”…still in progress..but i am too busy with other work right now to finish by the deadline (Feb 8) so here is the unfinished watercolor: And the one i did for “lies’:

Robert Genn, a very successful Canadian artist, sent out a newsletter blog which were the first I had ever encountered and to which I subscribed. While he was alive, he wrote one every week and i looked forward to reading them..sort of like a weekly mantra. Since his death, a few years ago, his daughterContinue reading “Robert Genn’s newsletters..and positive thinking..”

Unfortunately, I did not keep a record of the author who wrote this a number of years ago in (I think) the New York Times. My sincere apologies to the author.

Graphite (with a touch of gouache) 20 minute sketch–My local sketch group which is soo convenient—a quick walk from my house. Why don’t i go every week anymore?

More watercolor remembering how to do…this one in the WC technique i have always regarded as the most difficult …