April Art and Summer Classes are up and running on the WAM website!!

The Worcester Art Museum has just posted my classes for April Art Week as well as my Summer Classes. Scroll down to Classes at the Worcester Art Museum being taught by Bret M. Herholz on the right hand toolbar of my blog and click on the link to the class you wish to sign your child or teen up for.

I will be teaching classes in Cartooning and Pop Art for 8 to 10 and 11 to 13 year old students this Summer.

Classes fill up fast so sign up today!!

A month or so in the making, but tonight's the night!!

So, show up around 6:30pm until whenever your fingers fall off for a night of art, beer and socializing with other great artists, writers and musicians from the Worcester MA area!!

I'm hoping to have this become a once a month event either at Ralphs or another bar or pub somewhere around and about Worcester. I'm also hoping to incorporate other aspects to the event like the possibility of an eight hour comic book jam sometime either in July or August where the artists promptly show up at 6:30pm and in that eight hour stretch of time they are FORCED TO create an eight page comic book story which will appear in a short group anthology.

Another thing I'm very excited about is good friends of mine Andy Fish and Tom Grady who I work with through both the UCF Anthology and the Worcester Art Museum are planning something really great at WAM. To quote Andy himself:

Uber Artist Tom Grady and I are attempting to launch a version of Dr Sketchy's Anti Art School Life Drawing sessions here at WAM on either Thursday or Friday nights, and it looks like it's pretty close to happening. Dr Sketchy's, in case you don't know, combines art with snacks and laughs as we attempt to have some fun with some figure work all the while working hard not to take ourselves too seriously. There will be a nominal charge for the model fee-- something along the lines of $5 and it's completely drop in but limited to 20 people. MORE as we work out the final details.

Making a switch from Windsor Newton to Deleter

Probably for the past ten years or so I've been using Windsor Newton india ink for all my illustrations and comic art. Before that, I had used Pelikan. Unfortunately, most of the art supply stores in my area stopped carrying Pelikan so I started using Windsor Newton.

I've always enjoyed using Windsor Newton ink. It doesn't gray out over time the way Higgins does. And it's very rich and dark. Unlike Higgins.

But an art chum of mine Andy Fish has been telling me about this ink he uses called Deleter. He has told me that he thinks it's the best ink out there and it inks darker than even Windsor Newton.

I've seen a great deal of Andy's work with the Deleter ink and it looks really great!! So, I figured I would give it a go and get myself a bottle of it.

I still need to get through a few remaining bottles of Windsor Newton I own before I can break into the Deleter. But once I do, I'll let you know what I think of it.

My April Art Classes are available for enrollment!!

Have a child that really enjoys to draw? Well, sign them up for one of my classes during WAM's APRIL ART WEEK!! To view my current listing, cut and paste the address below:

https://educationreg.worcesterart.org/ShowSchedule.awp?&Search=INSTRUCTOR&Target=Njk2OTY=%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&Title=Courses%20Taught%20by%20Bret%20Herholz