http://www.johnreddinger.com illustration Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:42:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a painting I did recently, inspired by Italo Calvino's short story The Adventure of a Nearsighted Man. Calvino is a great author to inspire paintings; his stories are very rich and vivid, and yet he never gets bogged down in detail. The first thumbnail below is my initial sketch, and ... http://www.johnreddinger.com/?p=119 A portrait of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki from my sketchbook. http://www.johnreddinger.com/?p=104