JULIA HART: Rob Schamberger Newsletter 24APR25
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Hi. My name's Rob Schamberger. I'm that guy who paints rasslers. And other stuff. Follow those who pale in your shadow.
WORDS
This Julia Hart painting is one that came together exactly how I wanted it to. The second time around. See, the first attempt didn’t quite work out and maybe the biggest thing I learned from my time studying in Florence, Italy last year was to change my mindset about this scenario. In the past, I’d call a painting that didn’t work a failure, but the old masters instead referred to them as studies.
So, here’s the study I did for it:
It’s a fine enough painting, but I didn’t quite nail the facial features the way I wanted to and the colors weren’t working how I thought this should feel. The watercolor bloomed in some non-ideal ways in the background, too. Happens sometimes.
For the final painting I stripped it down to a purely warm palette and told more of a story with the colors I used, creating a glowing/ fire effect that sang the tune I wanted to hear.
All along I’ve had the mindset that I’m not creating individual works of art, but instead one body of work. It’s been fascinating to narrow that view down to individual works, that there can be a process to get an idea across. Worked out well here.
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Now that I’ve shown you my art, here’s the art that speaks to me:
ART I LIKE
In my opinion, the single greatest comic ever made is ‘Master Race’ by Al Feldstein and Bernie Krigstein. Published in 1955, it’s an 8 page story from EC Comics’ Impact! #1 that tells the story of a man who escaped a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, now being stalked by a mysterious man in black who was also there. Hey, I don’t want to spoil a 70 year-old story that’s unfortunately now all-too-relevant here in America. You should read the whole thing, but here’s what I consider the best page from the best comic ever made (the original art for it, shown above, recently sold for $600,000):
Look at how Krigstein masterfully controls the movement of time in these panels for dramatic effect. Panels 3-6 slow things down as the man loses his balance on the subway platform, then slowing down even more in panels 7-10. Time goes fast in panel 11 as we see the strobing effect of the passengers in the train as they sail by the man in black in the foreground. The drama of those final three panels as the man in black slowly turns and walks away as he delivers the final line of the story. Simply the best.
And he does all of that in 15 panels on one page, with all of them meticulously drawn yet easy to read! Ask any comic artist and they’ll tell you just how hard this is to do, and even harder that Krigstein made it look so easy and straightforward.
If you’d like to check out more of Bernie Krigstein’s comics, both B. Krigstein and B. Krigstein Comics are worth tracking down. I think they might be out of print but they look to be fairly easy to find at reasonable prices.
There it is. The perfect breakfast burrito.
FOOD, DUDE!
For the first time, I made something where I thought this could maybe beat Bobby Flay. May I introduce you to the perfect (for me at least) breakfast burrito! Here’s what you’ll need:
INGREDIENTS
1 cup avocado mayo
2 tbsp chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
2 cloves of garlic, minced (which means 4 cloves, naturally. Always double the cloves, baby!)
1 whole lime, juiced and zested
Eggs
1 red onion, chopped
1 red pepper, chopped
Baby bella mushrooms, chopped
American cheese slices
Beyond Breakfast Patties aka fake sausage
Flour burrito-sized tortillas
Salt, pepper and olive oil
First up, make your sauce. Put the mayo, chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, minced garlic, lime juice and lime zest in a food processor and run it for about 20 seconds. (The peppers come in a pretty good-sized can so we just freeze the rest for future use as they come in handy from time to time to take a dish to the next level.) You can go ahead and spread some sauce on a tortilla or set it aside for when you assemble everything.
This sauce is also really good on a chicken or ‘fake chicken’ sandwich, or anything where you use mayo but want to kick it up.
Put some olive oil in a pan and put it on low heat. Add some chopped onion and chopped red pepper and put a little salt on them while they saute. For this instruction, I’m taking you through making two of these at the same time, since I’m making them for Katy and I each morning. FYI.
While the onions and peppers cook, crack four eggs into a bowl. I personally like to add a little hot sauce and my homemade red wine vinegar, then some salt and coarse black pepper. Some people like water or milk but the vinegar adds some lovely flavor. Whisk until it’s all mixed up evenly.
Once the onions are browned on the edges, raise the skillet temperature to medium and add two of the breakfast patties and the chopped mushrooms. I also add some more homemade red wine vinegar at this stage too. After about a couple minutes, flip the patties. They should be pretty tender now and you can break them up with a rubber scraper. Add your egg mix and scramble that sum’bitch up.
After spreading the sauce on the tortilla, add your scramble, wrap it up and EAT IT.
You’ll get about eight burritos in total, so four day’s worth for two people. I package up the chopped veggies in different containers, and then the sauce in another and refrigerate all of them. With all of that ready you can have a burrito ready each morning in 10-15 minutes. You could also cook it all at once with 16 eggs (in this economy?!?) and wrap-wrap-wrap wrap them up and store in the fridge to microwave each morning, but I have the luxury of making them fresh for us.
Enjoy!
Love you more,
Rob