Enrico’s blog

Took this photo last summer. This is the Venice you don’t find in postcards … refineries toward Venezia Mestre I think … still even this has its own twisted beauty.

Ok … this is amazing … and crazy.

These came out of the brush this last summer … just scanned them now. I was testing a friend’s japanese watercolor set. I like these jellyfish-ghostly-water-spirits. Might have to do something with ‘em sooner or later. larger size here

I absolutely fell in love with this website, such a great concept and beautiful design. GYRE, designed by Shun Kawakami of (interestingly) Artless inc., happens to be the website for a commercial center in Tokyo’s Omotesando district. When I visited this site what immediately came to mind was an art piece I saw a couple [...]

Last week Ronnie and I were part of the judging for the Society of Illustrators annual show (and book) in the category of “sequential illustration”. Our friend Peter de Seve invited us to be part of it and we were both really happy to be able to make it. The society’s building is an historical [...]

Nothing like the New York city subway system to sketch interesting people, could happily spend all day doing that. I love how the moving cars add to the squigglyness of the line.

Wow, that’s really awesome! Most of the museums in downtown San
Francisco are free today!

This past sunday’s global drawing marathon was a wonderful success. The forums at the site are filled with wonderful drawings, watercolors and photos from all around the world. Antwerp, Belgrade, Hong Kong, Sapporo, Brisbane, Singapore, Sao Paulo and many cities around the US all had groups of artists joining in the World Wide SketchCrawl.
A warm [...]

While I was in NYC my good friend Dice Tsutsumi visited Japan for a week or so. He had quite an amazing time back on his home turf from what I hear, ranging from hanging out with Miyazaki San to visiting mountain Onsen (Hot Springs). Be sure to check out his wonderful paintings and sketches [...]