PLUGGING: Philip Whisenhunt

  

http://civilmouse.blogspot.com/

  So I met this cool kid at Ringling's Pre-College Perspective program many moons ago, and he has since improved at an awesome rate. He currently is studying at Virginia Commonwealth University under the likes of incredible illustrator and fine artist Sterling Hundley.  I've known few this dedicated to their passion and I'm happy to represent him on this blog. I can't wait to see what he turns out after his 4 years at VCU are through.

He's sure to become a big name in the future, I can feel it.

This may be the first post in a series of PLUGGING posts, where I highlight the names of friends of mine that I know will be seeing the limelight in a short while. Keep on trucking guys!

Inktober! and sketches

Me and Philip Whisenhunt over at http://civilmouse.blogspot.com/ are participating in Inktober: http://agent44.com/blog2/?p=502

And so are many others! Join us if you'd like. It's simply an ink drawing a day for all of October. I need a good excuse to brush up (no pun intended) on my ink chops. These sketchbook pages are studies from 2 James Montgomery Flagg inks and one of his figure paintings. Here's a good page on Flagg with examples of his incredible talent: http://www.americanartarchives.com/flagg.htm

And me with 2 of the books Ive recently checked out from Ringling's Kimbrough Library. If only I could own them...

 The Flagg book is an absolute must have. A great biography and hundreds of high res details of inks, watercolors, oils, charcoals, and much more. The other is a book on John Singer Sargent; the biography is great so far. Without further ado, here are my first pieces for Inktober (among other things)! Thanks Flagg!