Saturday, May 04, 2013

May the 4th!


Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Model sketching

I sketch from the model regularly.  I thought I'd post a few of my costumed favorites.  Most are 15 minutes long.














Friday, April 05, 2013

Ebert & Siskel























I did this piece 15 years ago, with some guidance from instructors at the Illustration Academy (Mark English & Sterling Hundley). Ebert died today-- a man who claimed Champaign, IL as much as I do.  I did this piece, synchronistically, the week Siskel started calling in sick--just months before he died.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Potter Commission


Thursday, January 31, 2013

Watering Hole


Sunday, November 11, 2012

Character designs




Thursday, October 25, 2012

The Spinster Aunts

Drop by Gallery Nucleus this weekend to see this inherited portrait of the Spinster Aunts.  It's part of a group show celebrating Mike Yamada & Victoria Ying's new book Curiosities.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Leather Pig























It's okay for pork to wear bovine, yes?

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Recently I've been exploring some digital work, and with the the help of Mike Yamada and Victoria Ying at the CDA, I brought up visual exploration of the Ray Bradbury story, Something Wicked This Way Comes.  I was trying to push the creature aspect of the carnival.











Sunday, July 01, 2012

Gallows Song




































The Two Donkeys

A gloomy donkey, tir'd of life
one day addressed his wedded wife:

"I am so dumb, you are so dumb,
let's go and die together, come!"

But as befalls, time and again,
they lived on happily, the twain.

--Morgenstern

The third in a series of Gallows Songs I've been working on.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Dandy Lion






















I'm continuing with my formal animal portraits.  This isn't *actually* the cowardly lion, but I do love that line from the movie...I'm afraid there's no denyin'.  I'm just a dandy-lion.  I've had it in my head for a while now.  A fate I don't deserve?

Monday, May 07, 2012

My Backyard


I've left the poem as it fits in the original illustration for Highlights Magazine.   The poem was written by Lynda Hawkins.