Illustration

The Spoof Brothers

I worked with brothers who struck me as very much like the Venture Brothers – one stockier, one taller… so I broke down and spoofed the show logo, drawing caricatures of this pair in the style of the original logo. The text was hand-drawn in a “clean” version, then roughed up in Adobe Illustrator. This …

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Band Poster

Skiffle Creek is a local, songwriter-driven band with a string-band vibe and an eclectic set list. This is a poster design with a large flexible area to give me the freedom to cram in a lot (as in the “two shows” sample below) or give a cleaner feel to more straightforward promotions. These guys did …

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Celtic Knotwork

I’m always learning new techniques and art styles; this is my first trial at traditional Celtic knotwork. I’m working from George Bain’s “Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction” originally published in 1951. This piece is drawn on cotton bond paper with a Speedball D series nib using India ink. Original drawing measures a shade over …

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Book Illustrations

Marco and Mariposa is the story of a tadpole who falls in love with a monarch butterfly. The two know their relationship will not be accepted, so they run away together, having life-altering encounters along the way. The theme is “Love Conquers All”. The Illustrations were created entirely using the Paper by 53 app on …

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Custom flame pattern for golf cart hood

Blue Flames

Wrapping vector flame patterns across a golf cart hood with a uniform “blown-back” look required a map of the changing angles, so we wrapped the nose in a giant sheet of paper and made one. Working carefully over the pattern, we built the flames from both the center out and the edge in, aiming for …

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The Lever

I forgot to pull the lever to wash away my fever as they handed me the cleaver so I thought that I would die fry cry sigh like the wind crowding through a lonesome tree that’s free and wants to be uprooted polluted convoluted like the trail of a snail in a crooked shell that’s …

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Snow

Snow fills the air and blankets the ground, blankets the hound, the home, the piles of round logs waiting to warm us, ready to be fed to the fire, fodder for the heady warmth seeping into our clothes, our hands, our cherry faces; those snow-packed gloves, scarves, coats leaking water on the hearth. Piney scents …

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