MerckWorks

During the trench warfare of life, I found myself looking for an escape hatch. I was a commercial artist now. I could not do as I pleased, but must please clients and art directors. this kind of art was not the delight it once had been and there was little time for creative writing. I [...]

I had a talent for writing and illustrating stories as a pre-schooler. I could not read and write yet so I dictated stories to my mother who typed them on a big black 1930’s Royal on which my father had done casework during the Great Depression. Once I became literate I really got on a [...]

Studio housekeeping is a mundane topic, but important. When I started painting Ezy Boy, I  could not remove the tops from some of my tubes of oil paint. The paint had dried and hardened. There are several ways to open them. You can draw the flame of a match or cigarette lighter over the tops [...]