Isaac Peterson is an author, artist, and educator living in Oregon. Isaac illustrates children's books for both print media and animated IOS and Android applications. Isaac is working on his first science fiction novel. You can read portions of it in the writing blog. An accomplished film photographer, he recently won first place in a group show at fotofoto gallery in New York.
Plottr is a simple program for planning a novel.If you join your local writing group, you will probably here authors talk about “pantsers” vs “plotters.” These terms mean that some people prefer to sit down and write by the seat of their pants and let the novel take them wherever it wants to go without […]
I am working on my third novel in a series and it can feel like driving in a snowstorm with no headlights. I often don’t know where my characters are going but I have a vague idea of the final destination. I went through a period where I was obsessed with Joyce Carol Oates, and […]
Women got the right to vote 100 years ago exactly. The 19th amendment was ratified on August 18th, 1920. That means that there are people alive today that are older than American democracy. Society told women that they would be taken care of, that their husbands would vote in their interest. They were told they […]
Zilpah and Shekinah are almost my favorite characters, and they have this wonderful bond where even though they are sisters, Zilpah has become Shek’s mom. Here’s a scene from the upcoming sequel to the Brass Starling: Zilpah ran up the grand curving stair to her sister’s room. She eased the door open to see Shek […]
https://tidal.com/browse/artist/9723392 I have been listening to this band called Death all week and they are incredible. You can listen to them on tidal using the link. The name of the band doesn’t really reflect the emotion of the music. The band was a family of musicians that started in the 70’s and they called the […]
The year is 1910, and the Lostch family has fled the violence of a pogrom in Prague in search of a new life. They live in the Lower East Side tenements. Every member of the Lostch family works long hours for low wages—16-year-old Talia as a courier and her older sister Ayala as a seamstress […]
Learn to make oak trees with brushes. Use the provided files to make hand drawn trees. Create an original forest. WARNING: use the drawings of branches and trunks etc. to create your forest, but don’t upload the example illustrator file back to blackboard. This should be original art, with a few of my drawn elements. […]
https://isaacpeterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/walkwithflowers.psd.zip Today we’ll make an animated love letter. Download the sample file and take a look at how it is structured in the layers and animation panels. Discuss how this was made. WARNING: do not upload any part of this artwork back to blackboard. The project is to make your own. Go to soc. meeds […]
Picture Sentence Cut newsprint into long strips. First person writes a sentence like the beginning of the story and then passes it to the next person who has to illustrate that sentence. Paper is folded to conceal the sentence. Next person has to write what they think is happening in the picture and the next […]
Anya Osamu Tezuka, Kirchner, Takashi Murakami, Robbie Rodriguez Chris Tomer Hanuka, Bernie Wrightson, Alex Nunez, Goya, DeKooning Ashley Piranesi, Julie Mehretu, Wayne Theibaud, Helen Frankenthaler, Richard Diebenkorn Courtney Brunelleschi, Al Held, Escher Jessica H Klimt, Aubrey Beardsley, Nikki de St. Phalle, Fred Tomaselli Kayla Windsor McKay, Mucha, Kay Nielsen, Arthur Rackham, Craig Thompson MiKayla Cecily […]