“From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.” ~ H. P. Lovecraft First, the important stuff: at this year’s PPOC National Salon, I won my third Best in Class Figure Study for my […]
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How a Passion for Drawing Led to an Accreditation in Figure Study (NSFW)
‘Figure Study: skillful and creative artistic representations of the unclothed human figure; in whole or in part.’ When I was a kid (yeah, yeah… in the real long ago), I started sketching. Before my first […]
7 Lessons Learned Over the Past 7 Years in Photography
Beyond any of the lessons I’ve learned from my mentors and fellow pixel freaks, and all the “quotable quotes” regarding photography, there are a few thoughts that have come together in my head over the past […]
Jay Terry MPA Now Accredited in Fantasy Illustration
It has long been a … fantasy … of mine to create the kind of images that fired my imagination as a child. As I wrote in “From Pencil and Pen to Pixels: This is […]
From Pencil and Pen to Pixels: This is Where it All Started
In the long, long ago, before I started smashing pixels, I had a fascination with creating works of fantasy. As a child, I would draw, doodle, finger-paint … you name it – same as most […]
Babies, Brides and the “Bare” Essentials
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Stop me if you’ve heard these before … (of a baby photo) “OMG!! Love!!” (of a bridal photo) “You’re beautiful!” (of a […]
The Proper Care and Feeding of Your Creativity
“Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.” ~ Andy Hobsbawm You’re in a rut. Your creativity is gone. You have no time. You’re feeling uninspired. It’s all been done before. You can’t do … […]
London Photographer Wins Top Conceptual Illustration Award At National Exhibition
They say you ‘always remember your first’. I get that – my first car, my first job, my first Five Guys burger (I think I just drooled on my keyboard thinking about it …). Well, […]
Farewell 2013, Thanks For Coming Out!
So, that was 2013 … It’s been a tradition in my house at New Year’s to take a good, long look at the year we’ve just finished – the highlights and the low – as […]