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DRAWING IN THE SNOW: I’m from Los Angeles, where snow is exotic. I never want it to melt. If I’m lucky I get a window, but sometimes I’ve just sat out in it to draw something fabulous, like that courtyard wall up in the Grand Bazaar. #snow #architecture #citylife
December 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
DRAWING IN THE SNOW: I’m from Los Angeles, where snow is exotic. I never want it to melt. If I’m lucky I get a window, but sometimes I’ve just sat out in it to draw something fabulous, like that courtyard wall up in the Grand Bazaar. #snow #architecture #citylife
First winter in Istanbul, 2004-5. I lived at the bottom of Sultanahmet, carried my sketchbook always, & everywhere I looked my eyes were happy. Much of this is still here but nothing looks the same. #architecture #citylife #istanbul🇹🇷
December 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
First winter in Istanbul, 2004-5. I lived at the bottom of Sultanahmet, carried my sketchbook always, & everywhere I looked my eyes were happy. Much of this is still here but nothing looks the same. #architecture #citylife #istanbul🇹🇷
ODE TO CRUMB: My ode to Robert Crumb, the genius who invented Underground Comics, whose work has remained a lodestar throughout my career. Shown here in 1996 with some of his favorite things. Created online, drawn by hand with several programs. #digitalart #comics #portrait
December 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
ODE TO CRUMB: My ode to Robert Crumb, the genius who invented Underground Comics, whose work has remained a lodestar throughout my career. Shown here in 1996 with some of his favorite things. Created online, drawn by hand with several programs. #digitalart #comics #portrait
BOUKOLEON SNOW: The best view I ever had: Lingering lonely by the side of the Highway for a century, the ruin of the 9thCentury Boukoleon Palace endured storms, blizzards & neglect before its present restoration. But it was beautiful. #byzantine #architecture #istanbul🇹🇷
December 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
BOUKOLEON SNOW: The best view I ever had: Lingering lonely by the side of the Highway for a century, the ruin of the 9thCentury Boukoleon Palace endured storms, blizzards & neglect before its present restoration. But it was beautiful. #byzantine #architecture #istanbul🇹🇷
I’m really glad I got these drawings & photos of Hagia Sophia when I could! The grand old dame has been through many changes since then, so here’s a look from before. #hagiasophia #drawing #architecture
December 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I’m really glad I got these drawings & photos of Hagia Sophia when I could! The grand old dame has been through many changes since then, so here’s a look from before. #hagiasophia #drawing #architecture
Anybody else out there as fascinated as I am by the Black Dahlia? The most famous unsolved mystery of Los Angeles: since 1947 it’s inspired books & movies & this painting: SHOE FEVER from my Black Dahlia series. Details only!#blackdahlia #shoes #mysteries
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Anybody else out there as fascinated as I am by the Black Dahlia? The most famous unsolved mystery of Los Angeles: since 1947 it’s inspired books & movies & this painting: SHOE FEVER from my Black Dahlia series. Details only!#blackdahlia #shoes #mysteries
After 9 years I’m making Kitty Angels again for Christmas. Hard to make!! Takes days & days. But each is a portrait of a particular cat. This one is the late Truffles, destined for a family Christmas tree in California, when America opens up again to overseas mail. #christmas #ornaments #cats
December 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
After 9 years I’m making Kitty Angels again for Christmas. Hard to make!! Takes days & days. But each is a portrait of a particular cat. This one is the late Truffles, destined for a family Christmas tree in California, when America opens up again to overseas mail. #christmas #ornaments #cats
The best ideas come when you’re just fooling around: vintage digital art from the 1980s & 90s. All this stuff started as digital doodles, & some of it wound up winning awards. Also I learned a lot! These were created in Los Angeles, California, USA. #digital #macart #art
November 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Walking & riding with a sketchbook open through the streets & bazaars of Istanbul. Occasionally I’d sit down for a couple of hours & catch these big drawings, moments frozen in time. #illustration #drawing #istanbul
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Walking & riding with a sketchbook open through the streets & bazaars of Istanbul. Occasionally I’d sit down for a couple of hours & catch these big drawings, moments frozen in time. #illustration #drawing #istanbul
Clip art I created freehand in MacPaint, online with a mouse in 1986. Each image here took a week to build. I kept vampire hours; the best stuff happened between midnight & 4AM, working mostly to Mozart, & The Grateful Dead. You could buy this stuff on a floppy disk & use it.
#mac #digitalart
#mac #digitalart
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Clip art I created freehand in MacPaint, online with a mouse in 1986. Each image here took a week to build. I kept vampire hours; the best stuff happened between midnight & 4AM, working mostly to Mozart, & The Grateful Dead. You could buy this stuff on a floppy disk & use it.
#mac #digitalart
#mac #digitalart
I spent from 1984-1999 in Los Angeles with my nose glued to a workstation, creating art online. This stuff was all commercial, used in games & ads, created online on the Mac as it evolved. Exciting times! The only follow-up was to move to Turkey. #digitalart #mac #game
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I spent from 1984-1999 in Los Angeles with my nose glued to a workstation, creating art online. This stuff was all commercial, used in games & ads, created online on the Mac as it evolved. Exciting times! The only follow-up was to move to Turkey. #digitalart #mac #game
Wings mean power. From ancient Djinns, Gorgons & bird-footed tomb musicians through Byzantine cave archangels & classic Christian deities to nightmare Bosch characters & the digital Angel of Destruction, mighty winged icons have always been with us. #angel #drawing #wings #power
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Everybody loves the Dervishes. Centuries ago in Konya, the poet Rumi would spin in the streets in ecstatic prayer. This has become the stylized ritual seen today, if you’re lucky, in Turkey. There are many sects of Dervishes & here we see some up close. #dervish #drawing #portrait #ritual #prayer
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Marrakech 2013: Thanks to a generous patron, a happy respite in Morocco with my sister after a summer of civil unrest in Istanbul. We stayed at his riad in the souk & I never stopped drawing. And now we have these pictures! #morocco #portrait #marketplace #drawing
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Marrakech 2013: Thanks to a generous patron, a happy respite in Morocco with my sister after a summer of civil unrest in Istanbul. We stayed at his riad in the souk & I never stopped drawing. And now we have these pictures! #morocco #portrait #marketplace #drawing
Fabulous faces caught on the fly in Istanbul. All drawn from life: on the tram, out in front of the harbor, at cafes & in the street & in a concert at Hagia Irene, making these memories indelible. #portrait #drawing #penandink #istanbul #faces
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Fabulous faces caught on the fly in Istanbul. All drawn from life: on the tram, out in front of the harbor, at cafes & in the street & in a concert at Hagia Irene, making these memories indelible. #portrait #drawing #penandink #istanbul #faces
Film Fiends from 100 years of movie horror: Bela Lugosi, Lon Cheney, Boris Karloff, Tor Johnson, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Fay Wray, Barbara Steele, Frederick March & Norman Bates’s Mother all wish you a ghoulish Halloween! #halloween #scare #vintagefilm #horrorfilm #digitalart
October 31, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Film Fiends from 100 years of movie horror: Bela Lugosi, Lon Cheney, Boris Karloff, Tor Johnson, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Fay Wray, Barbara Steele, Frederick March & Norman Bates’s Mother all wish you a ghoulish Halloween! #halloween #scare #vintagefilm #horrorfilm #digitalart
Y’know, I don’t think I’ll bother posting on Blue Sky anymore. Nobody here seems to be looking at my posts, & hardly any likes. I get a nice feedback on my 4 other platforms. So have fun, kids, talking to each other!
August 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Y’know, I don’t think I’ll bother posting on Blue Sky anymore. Nobody here seems to be looking at my posts, & hardly any likes. I get a nice feedback on my 4 other platforms. So have fun, kids, talking to each other!
Visible History: the 9thCentury Byzantine Boukoleon Palace was burnt by Crusaders in 1204, lived in by families for centuries, dynamited by the British & the Sultan in 1888 for the Orient Express Railway, further demolished in 1963 to build the Shore Road (Kennedy Caddesi). Every bit of that shows…
August 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Visible History: the 9thCentury Byzantine Boukoleon Palace was burnt by Crusaders in 1204, lived in by families for centuries, dynamited by the British & the Sultan in 1888 for the Orient Express Railway, further demolished in 1963 to build the Shore Road (Kennedy Caddesi). Every bit of that shows…
The Ottoman Coke Kiosk, 2014. This fabulous chunk of Ottoman splendor, probably 18thC Tulip Period, started life as a water reservoir in Eminonu before being moved to Zeynep Sultan Camii (1769) in Sultanahmet. Took me 2 weeks to draw these echoes in marble. #architecture #istanbul
August 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The Ottoman Coke Kiosk, 2014. This fabulous chunk of Ottoman splendor, probably 18thC Tulip Period, started life as a water reservoir in Eminonu before being moved to Zeynep Sultan Camii (1769) in Sultanahmet. Took me 2 weeks to draw these echoes in marble. #architecture #istanbul
Istanbul’s old wooden houses, survivors from a time of Ottoman splendor. Some are beautifully restored, others fit only for destruction. Once in the Old City, one collapsed in a storm. By nightfall it had vanished- into the neighborhood stoves. #architecture #istanbul #drawing
August 8, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Istanbul’s old wooden houses, survivors from a time of Ottoman splendor. Some are beautifully restored, others fit only for destruction. Once in the Old City, one collapsed in a storm. By nightfall it had vanished- into the neighborhood stoves. #architecture #istanbul #drawing
Hagia Sophia: Look Closer. 1500 years of history in the details: forgotten arches & other architectural artifacts, magnificent doors, thresholds shaped by time, Crusader graffiti, the cracked floor now covered with carpet, & the late Gül Kedi, 16 years Queen Cat in the great basilica. #hagiasophia
August 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Hagia Sophia: Look Closer. 1500 years of history in the details: forgotten arches & other architectural artifacts, magnificent doors, thresholds shaped by time, Crusader graffiti, the cracked floor now covered with carpet, & the late Gül Kedi, 16 years Queen Cat in the great basilica. #hagiasophia
My boyfriends all live in museums… every fabulous face & body there, radiating masculine beauty & power, was posed by an actual ancient hottie. Most back then didn’t live so long, but now they live forever. #archeology #men #art #museums #ancient
August 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
My boyfriends all live in museums… every fabulous face & body there, radiating masculine beauty & power, was posed by an actual ancient hottie. Most back then didn’t live so long, but now they live forever. #archeology #men #art #museums #ancient