I love oil sticks, but sometimes I want something that feels less like painting with a stick and more like drawing with a really big crayon. So I experimented with making my own using ordinary tube oil paint, beeswax, and walnut oil. The result surprised me. …

A Worldwide Sketchbook, Organized by Place I’m so excited to finally share something I’ve been working on: Drawn Here, a new project that grew out of a pretty unexpected source—a bobcat wandering through my neighborhood. A while back, I spotted a bobcat near my home …

There’s something a little magical about paper marbling. You drop paint onto a tray of thickened water, move it around, lay down a sheet of paper—and suddenly you’ve made something completely unexpected. I spent some time in Jess’s Test Studio experimenting with Methocel, alum, different …