Reflections on 2024(so far)
Hello everyone. It's June 19, about mid-year, and it's our 31st anniversary. That's right, Hope and I were married on Juneteenth, which back in 1993, we didn't really know anything…
Procreate Tutorials and Walkthrus
So it's currently Dec 21, 2023, and I'm five days into a two-week art-making hiatus (I figured I deserved some downtime after going 275 days straight making new art on…
The Joy of Landscapes
When I first started painting, one of the first things I did was to take a course on Domestika.org called "Basics of Acrylic Landscape Painting." I had been painting for…
Asking AI to Generate Art
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that generative AI has been making humongous in-roads lately. Companies have been launching techno-gizmos that you can feed prompts to and…
NFTs: Nope, F*ck That
When I started painting again, I did the very natural thing: I created an Instagram account (myerman.art) to share what I was doing, build a following, and embrace a community…
Recent books on art that I’ve enjoyed reading
In an earlier blog post, I wrote about which online resources (classes, videos, community forums, blog posts) I relied on in my art education. In this blog post, I'd like…
Analog vs digital tools in making art
There's so much about how we live and work and play in the early 21st (almost wrote 20th!) century where stark, arbitrary, and meaningless contrasts are staked out. Mostly this…
Photography: Gateway Drug to Other Arts
I remember the day clearly: it was during the first week of junior year at Balboa High School. I'd signed up to be part of the yearbook staff, and the…
Some online resources that have helped me
Over the past several months, as I got reacquainted with the world of making art (after a three decade hiatus!) I've basically walked, breathed, slept, ate, and dreamed about art.…
Go wild with those colors
If you've had a look at any of my art, you can tell right away, "This guy loves to use lots of colors." It's true, I do. My landscapes and…