Here they are! All of the painting for my show at Bluebottle Art Gallery. A few are older works, but most are new. It's quite a mixed bag of images. I hope you enjoy them.

The Books Are Out!

The project that almost did me in! I was surprised to see these on Amazon. They look quite nice I think. They have a heavy library binding and are printed on nice thick stock.

Buy a set and you too can have kids with perfect manners!

If you see this guy riding toward you run! Or better yet stop. Maybe you are about to do something really dumb.

Finally a little free time... just a little. I have weeks of yard work to catch up on and the leaves just keep piling higher. Next year I am going to cut the trees down. It will be a lot less work. : )

I just finished off 60 illustrations (most of them double page spreads) and it nearly killed me. It was one of the few times in my career that I actually blew a lot of the deadlines set by the art director. I did manage to finish up the entire project within the set date, but I blew just about every other deadline in between. Luckily they were very understanding and in the end we were all happy. I just hope it never happens again. Feeling like you are constantly behind is too stressful!

I have been sitting on some good news. This coming March I am have a one man show at the Bluebottle Art Gallery in Seatle. If you are in the area please come by and say hello. My wife and I are both planning on attending. I plan on eating a lot of seafood and soaking in the cool factor.

Oh, and if you have any ideas for paintings send them along!

Busy, busy, busy

Here are a few images I cooked up for next years Workbook. This is not the ad I went with, but they have a lot of the same elements.

IF-Capture

A quickie!

Vacation....

It's kinda nice when you can take a vacation a half hour from home and feel like you are a world away...

Out on a limb

I love to paint, but I am not really all that confident yet as a painter. A lot of it has to do with the medium. Paints are so darn finicky, and they seldom do what I want them to. The computer however does everything I want it to, and since I can "undo" anything there are only happy accidents in the digital world, not so in the world of paints. It's a transition that I can sometimes find difficult to make.

Sculpture is another beast all together. I am comfortable as a sculptor. It is really my natural medium. I spent more time as a child building things than drawing them.

All that to get to this. I did this little painting (4" x 5 1/4"), and I liked it okay. Then I had the idea to build it. I used a shadow box I have had lying around for years. I really like how it turned out... More are on the way I think.

New Paintings

Here are a few new pieces. They are very small 3"x4 1/2". They are titled "Love me not" and "Cemeteries give me the creeps".

I've got worms

I did these a few year ago and just stumbled across them. I liked them, my client... not so much.

Visual Thesaurus

This is pretty cool--->Visual Thesaurus You can only look-up a few words, so choose them carefully.