BeachHead

I've filled 2.5 of these wonderful little sketch books - acid-free paper, bomb proof binding, gold or silver leaf edging and a neat little cloth bookmark in each.  In 20 years I'll have filled ten.  Unless I pick up the pace on the "sketch-a-day concept", that is.  There are overlaps in time in each of them, as I get nervous about traveling with a nearly full sketchbook, and so start a blank one before the old one is done.  My aunt Lise bought me the first one, and I've bought the others at Bob Slate's in Harvard Square - I'll have to find a new dealer here in L.A.

Web sites are like sand castles - the ones that succeed are constantly redesigned and populated with content in a never-ending battle against the tide.  Many others suffer from benign neglect and crumble slowly, eventually to be swept to sea.  Visionbin.com has met just such a demise.  Slightly too hard to update for any kind of regular use, it has been a rarely-visited, mummified collection of works completed up to 2004.  Gone are the snappy one-liners, the hip orange styling and the really annoying picture corners and pop-ups.  Thanks to all who helped make it, provided feedback or other help.

Squarespace is infinitely simpler to update and track.   It is better suited to the sketch-a-day (sketch-a-week?  3-sketches-a-month?) project than to a static portfolio, so for the time being my older digital and acrylic work will not make an appearance.  I will start by posting the oldest sketches first, and make my way up to the present.  There's a lot in there, so sit back, grab a mojito or two and let the withering critiques rain down upon me like so much manna!