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Time-lapse video of my Zuckerberg Portrait being made
Earlier this week Mark Zuckerberg answered questions from Congress and I've painted a portrait of him. This video compresses about 2...
Garth von Ahnen
Apr 15, 20181 min read
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Zuckerberg
A portrait of Zuckerberg trying to explain facebook.
garth11
Apr 14, 20181 min read
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Making an Ent - Part 3 of 3
I posted a making of series a while ago, where I show the process of making an illustration of an ent from Lord of the Rings. Here's part...
Garth von Ahnen
Apr 11, 20182 min read
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Shoes of Space and Sea
One foot is the universe above, the other foot is the universe below. It's hard to get a good sense of artwork on a three dimensional...
Garth von Ahnen
Apr 2, 20181 min read
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Stephen Hawking
We're used to seeing him in the wheelchair. Here's the professor on his wedding day. True, they divorced later, but it makes a good photo...
Garth von Ahnen
Mar 14, 20181 min read
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The Dystopians
It's possible that I'm working on a new project. I can neither confirm, nor deny it, not that anyone's asked, and why would they since I...
Garth von Ahnen
Mar 12, 20181 min read
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Coffee Bandits
Here's a painting I did a few years ago for Coffee Bandits, a coffee shop in Merced, California. This mural chronicles a heist. Once upon...
Garth von Ahnen
Feb 23, 20181 min read
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Making an Ent - Part 2 of 3
I didn’t plan on getting into detail about the next step in my Ent Art, but I’ve received some encouraging feedback from a few people, so...
Garth von Ahnen
Feb 16, 20182 min read
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Quadruple Portrait
Here’s my recent quadruple portrait of a friend of mine and his family. I made the frame out of cherry wood with the help of my dad Karl...
Garth von Ahnen
Feb 12, 20181 min read
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Front Page of the Washington Examiner website
Wow. Justin and I got onto the front page of the Washington Examiner with this little opinion piece that we co-wrote. Actually, Justin...
Garth von Ahnen
Feb 9, 20181 min read
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Making an Ent - Part 1 of 3
Normally my ‘blog’ posts are a photo or two with one sentence without a lot of information. This is not that. This is an essay about...
Garth von Ahnen
Feb 8, 20183 min read
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Water Color Kids
I just finished two portraits of these two kids. Watercolor is the trickiest medium for me and I'm very happy with these results. See,...
Garth von Ahnen
Jan 19, 20181 min read
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The Dishonest & Corrupt Media Awards
A few days ago Trump tweeted: "I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o’clock....
garth11
Jan 7, 20181 min read
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5 Ways Trump Can Win the War on Christmas
Justin and I wrote a Christmas comic! Well, he wrote it. I drew.
Garth von Ahnen
Dec 25, 20171 min read
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Alcohol On Your Receipt
This video shows the effects of rubbing alcohol when squirted onto receipt paper. I composed the music in Logic, and added an additional...
garth11
Dec 22, 20171 min read
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6 Ways Trump Can Distract the Media from the Flynn Scandal
Extra! Extra! Hot off the press! Your intrepid journalist Justin Duckham and I, the drawer man, just published a new article on...
Garth von Ahnen
Dec 2, 20171 min read
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6 nerdy Halloween costumes that will only work in Washington, DC
I just published an article in the Washington Examiner in collaboration with Justin Duckham, my longtime friend and collaborator. He...
Garth von Ahnen
Oct 30, 20171 min read
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Chinook
This is a german shepherd who lives with a friend of mine. I hastily took this picture before handing him this portrait for his birthday.
Garth von Ahnen
Oct 28, 20171 min read
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On Blueberry Hill
Fats Domino died yesterday. Here's my tribute portrait. For reference, I used a video of him preforming his classic Blueberry Hill on Ed...
Garth von Ahnen
Oct 26, 20171 min read
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Caricatures are hard. Even with the President.
I expected that it would be easy to draw a caricature of Trump, but it's much harder than I expected. Here's a sheet full of trump...
Garth von Ahnen
Oct 11, 20172 min read
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