Posts by Loard Eva

Most pumpkin decorating guides tell you what to buy and then leave you standing there holding a pen. This one is the opposite. It walks through how to decorate a pumpkin with markers as an actual...

The first pumpkin I ever decorated with markers looked incredible for about four hours. I'd drawn a whole constellation across it with a set of regular felt tips, thin white stars over the orange,...

A student sent me a drawing two Octobers ago and asked why it wasn't scary. She'd done everything right on paper. Cobwebs in the corners, a bat crossing the moon, a ghost floating in an upstairs...

I labeled an entire set of storage bins with a Sharpie once. Neat, clear, color-coded. Looked great. Two weeks later - gone. Not faded. Gone. The plastic looked like I'd never touched it. That's...

There's a quiet fear that keeps a lot of talented people from ever taking their art seriously. It sounds like this: "I never went to art school, so am I even allowed to call myself an artist?" I felt...

I didn't set out to spend $300 on markers. That's the thing about art supplies. It happens in twenty and forty dollar increments over a couple of years, and then one afternoon you're organizing your...