Many years ago, my friend Fotno would take the local news weather person literally when they said, “Today’s weather brought to you by…”, thereby laying the blame for the rain or storm or whatever at the feet of the segment sponsor. Originally, the joke used the actual sponsor from the local station, but soon enough …
Mothman! Max painted this at a fairly young age and graciously allows me to use it here. In exchange for free T-shirts. I love how happy she made him! Get this image on almost anything at RedBubble. Bigfoot, who has become ubiquitous in my daily life, is also included, along with a “Field Investigator” Tee. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
What a great project! After a brainstorming session with the business owner, where I brought several design samples to give us a reference for discussion, I took his conceptual ideas and generated this drawing. My first submission was a 2′ by 6′ sample generated on a pen plotter from a vector original. After choosing a …
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 …
The Dance Factory of Morganton contacted me about providing backdrops for a Christmas program. To fit their needs and budget, I designed three 15′ x 20′ backgrounds, which we hand painted on seamed canvas.
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 …
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 …