Summary: I share some of my process creating a faux Rolling Stone magazine cover of the Ramones. Giclee prints of the image are also made available!… Continue Reading
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Illustrating “The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True”
Summary: This blog post covers a book project that I worked on from the end of 2014 to the beginning of 2105. I was hired to create a cover illustration and a number of black and white interior illustrations for the book The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True.… Continue Reading
Sleepy San Francisco Squirrel
Summary: An illustration based on a recent trip to my old stomping grounds, San Francisco. The illustration MFA program that I am enrolled in is great and has us traveling around the country for different contact periods throughout the year. We meet three times a year, spring and fall, and we always go to Hartford Univeristy in Connecticut in… Continue Reading
The Story of the Fisherman; Up Close
The Story of the Fisherman is a letterpress book that is hand bound and hand colored. The limited edition of 117 (101 of which are for sale) is a project that is produced by Foolscap Press.… Continue Reading
The Story of the Fisherman Final Art Gallery
A gallery of all the final art work that was used for the book The Story of the Fisherman.… Continue Reading
The Boyler Kat
Summary: Character sketches for a short story that I’m writing and illustrating based on my experiences at Pratt University. While I was in NYC this past November with my Hartford MFA comrades, we got a unique tour of Pratt University. Betsy and Ted Lewin walked us around the campus and showed us the sights. One… Continue Reading
Comic Book Workshop | Feb. 7&8
Summary: Up coming comic book workshop in Santa Cruz I’m really excited to start the year off with a workshop at the Santa Cruz Art League! The workshop is called Micro-Comics, Maximum Fun! and you can sign up through the SCAL.org website. (scroll down to the workshop title and register from there!) Here is the quick pitch… Continue Reading
Victor Grey Development Sketches
Even in the midst of wrapping up some client work, I am finding some time to continue to develop a story for my MFA thesis. This particular story actually has its roots in a project that I was developing back into thousand and 12! It’s amazing to me to think about the arc of the… Continue Reading
“What he heard caused him to tremble.”
Character sketches for an Arabian Nights story! By the way, how did Boris Karloff make his way on to the page?!
The Magic of Creation
Working in the studio today, devising some new techniques to add to my watercolors to give them more life… I think I’m onto something here!… Continue Reading
