by Ben | Jan 17, 2020 | Spyglass Blog
The Two Nautical Instruments in North Square Recently installed public art gives visitors a glimpse of Boston’s past and draws inspiration from the children’s book One April in Boston by Ben Edwards | 01.17.20 In colonial Boston, the North End was home to mariners...
by Ben | Jan 16, 2020 | Spyglass Blog
Seeing the Future—A Gift We All Possess Setting goals can help turn our visions for the future into reality—but only if we have the courage to take action each day and never quit by Ben Edwards and Cortney Skinner | 01.14.20 Can we see into the future? Each of us has...
by Ben | Jan 6, 2020 | Spyglass Blog
My Journey—Student to Working Illustrator A career with twists and turns that always circled back to a fascination with and a love for history by Cortney Skinner | 01.06.20 Completing the illustration course at the Art Institute of Boston did not endow me with a...
by Ben | Jan 3, 2020 | Spyglass Blog
Howard Pyle Was My Great-Grand Teacher The art of Illustration is a skill passed down directly or indirectly from illustrators of the past by Cortney Skinner | 01.03.20 Illustrators are pictorial storytellers. In order to do their work, they also have to be highly...
by Ben | Dec 16, 2019 | Spyglass Blog
Making Silhouettes for One April in Boston Profile Shades—An ancient art brought into the present by Cortney Skinner | 12.16.19 When I was first approached in 1999 by Ben Edwards to do some illustrations for his upcoming book, One April in Boston, I was asked to...
by Ben | Dec 11, 2019 | Spyglass Blog
Creating the Cover Art for One April in Boston Traditional vs. Digital Painting—How my methods have evolved over the past two decades by Cortney Skinner | 12.11.19 It was about 20 years ago when Ben Edwards commissioned me to create some silhouettes, pen and ink...
