May 9th, 2013
I’m glad to finally get back to working on this picture. I wanted to execute a couple smaller watercolor paintings before starting on the double trailer. Last December I finished the 14″ Dump truck and I’m putting finishing touches on the 28″ Pipe trailer pictured here. Both are pen, watercolor and colored pencil on stretched 140lb Arches paper.

I created engineering drawings of both trucks in Illustrator and printed them out at 10% black, giving me a skeleton to draw and paint atop. The gif below shows both my vector drawing and my final painting.

I’ll be creating vector art for the Taxi picture also and it will include drawings of all the Ford Escapes. I plan to make one taxi drawing and clone it for the 9 spots on the trailer. This will space them out well and they’ll be a consistent size. I found this side view on the NYC gov site “Taxi of Tomorrow”.

February 23th, 2012
I stitched together the photos of the taxi trailer. There’s a total of 9 cabs.

October 14th, 2011
I was outside the studio in October of 2011 when a double trailer full of taxis drove up Jackson Street. They were probably bound for New York City but their lack of decals made it unclear. They were bright yellow Ford Escape “Clean Taxis” loaded onto a cobalt blue double trailer. I saw it from a block away and ran up the street to intercept it at a stop light. The NJ Transit light rail train stopped traffic long enough for me to snap a series of pictures spanning the full length of the truck.

Awele/Oware- Mancala uses a photo-realistic background of a large wooden Mancala board. This iOS game allows one or two players to compete.

Mancala FS5 is an iOS game with different skins for the game board, including the jewelry box seen here.

Mancala Snails: This version includes instructional levels to help understand the mechanics of the game. Unfortunately the stones are rendered as yellow snails and the uniform color across the board makes it difficult to count how many pieces are in each cup.

Novel Games Mancala has a rainbow colored set of stones, making things a bit easier to count. But turn down the volume. The music loop will have you pulling your hair out.

Here’s a cute music video for Jim Guthrie’s “The Rest is Yet to Come”. Artist Dan Berry made a panoramic background with simple animations of watercolor drawings. The result is a slow pan across a landscape of musicians, leaves and fire.

He provides a peek at his process by posting pictures of the video in various stages of production. His main software tools are Photoshop and After Effects, along with a good scanner and watercolor paper.

Dan Berry hosts a podcast where he speaks with cartoonists and others about their creative process. It’s called “Make It Then Tell Everybody” and is available on iTunes.

Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

This video contains an interview with Wallinger as well as a glimpse of the production process.
A labyrinth differes from a maze in that there are no dead ends and there is just one way in and one way out. I have been exploring the form, drawing both labyrinths and mazes in sketchbooks over the past couple years. It is a relaxing meditative practice, and encourages seeing of the entire page as an overall space, with the path traveling across every inch of the page. It’s encouraging seeing this often disregarded art form taking center stage in a public space.

As you proceed in the game the puzzles get more challenging, but you may jump from different types whenever you’d like. Ultimately you need to solve a full set of puzzles to unlock the “vault”, opening up yet another set of exercises for your brain. Available for iPhone and iPad.

Boy recreates the launch of "Imagination I" from EJ Keats "Regards to the Man in the Moon".

Regards to the Man in the Moon read aloud:

I’m creating a “Find the Differences” game for the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and have been using photos of the original art with no text. I just found this video of a couple of children in a library reading the book. It’s been funny for me hearing the way kids read it because I’ve been so focused on the visuals while making the game, rather than the text of the book itself. “Find the Differences” games lend themselves to that because they are purely visual. The children in the video do a great job of both reading the text and describing the visuals.