Enrico's blog

I often find myself working on the floor … making a mess of my living room as you can see. Come to think of it, it’s reminiscent of childhood days when it was way more likely to find ourselves sprawled on the floor drawing, crayons scattered all around, then sitting at table doing that.

From the Oakland hills … after a game of tennis.

It’s open studios season and there’s quite a few taking place this weekend in San Francisco. About a year ago I was part of one in Potrero, where I was then renting a really nice and roomy art space with my girlfriend at the time. Only over a year has passed but it feels more [...]

I am impressed by the growing line of offerings from Moleskine journals, just saw this at the Art Store, but where’s our much needed water-friendly moleskine? Coming? I sure hope so … The story behind Moleskine Journals.

The SketchCrawl forums are back up, this past weekend they got hacked into, but we’re back to normal … Come around the forums if you get a chance, hopefully we can get some momentum in the preparations for the November 13th Crawl. Also I have just received new SketchCrawl shirts! I was running out of [...]

I wanted to share and talk about a struggle I go through in most creative projects I embark on. Most times – be it a comic, an art book or an art show – I tend to power through a good 90% of my tasks with drive and passion. The last 10%, well, let me [...]

Great model today!

Some photos from a class I am taking … I find this kind of print making has two faces: the first one is relaxing and soothing, when cutting the design in the linoleum … the second one, the actual printing with a press, is quite difficult and potentially frustrating. The only way to learn seems [...]

Looking at art at quite the unusual hour …. Update: It was really quite the crazy night … ended up with an early morning breakfast at Bagdad Cafe’ on Market as the sun was dawning. Still can’t quite believe I waited for more than 4 hours in line… well, it certainly made for a memorable [...]