Mouse in the Cupboard

This is a single page illustration I did last year for a book by the publisher Klutz called Made You Look. The book is already out.
I did a page where a cupboard has been infested with mice! Well, that makes it sound dark and scary. Actually it is a picture find and kids can open [...]

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Pixel Digital Art Show

The show went great. J. otto Seibold entertained and signed books, Brian Despain sold all of his work as did Tadahiro Uesugi. Other then being completely exhausted – I can’t complain. Not sure when I will ever want to curate or co-curate another show. It’s the details that get ya. We had lots of great [...]

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More about cartoons

OK. I am a bit obsessed right now with newspaper comic strips. Not for the first time in my life, but my mornings now have a set time to look at the paper (usually delivered reasonably close to my side door so even in heavy rain I can nab it with only slippers on). [...]

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The depressing state of comic strips

My favorite off-topic, topic. I was forcing myself to read through the comic page today and I realized why a strip like ZITS (by a very good cartoonist) strikes me as so bad. Well, not bad, more lame. Sort of uninspired and painful. I mean, it’s not like you will die when you read [...]

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Something a little different

This is a poster I created for the digital art show here in Portland. It doesn’t look the work I usually do although about 8 years ago I did a lot of work similar to this. A style that is a good fit to the material.

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Agnes and Todd.

Agnes loved Todd in rain and in shine.
No matter his frail demeanor or his nasally whine.
She thought him a gentleman of uncommon grace – even though he often fell flat on his face.
He played his ukulele and sang along,
about love so tender and all of lifes wrongs.
The music he played was so sweet it made [...]

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The Kids Table

Something from the old kill stack. This was started as a piece for an editorial project. I don’t do a lot of editorial projects. In fact I almost never do them probably for two main reasons. 1. I don’t particularly like them/I’m not particularly good at them and 2. I don’t get asked very [...]

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What else have you been up to?

“What else have you been up to?” When I have been asked that question in the past 6 months I would answer – The Lake Oswego Festival of the Art’s Digital Show. I am co-curator of the event and there is a nice story in today’s Oregonian Newspaper about it. We are showing the work [...]

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Think like a kid

I always wondered, where do giants get their clothes? In fairy tales giants are always dressed pretty well and usually there was only one giant. So, could he sew? Did he have mail order? I started to write a story about a giant (Wilbur) who loses his pants (I can’t tell you how, that’s [...]

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Art for the kids room

It seems when I am at my busiest – I find personal projects I just have to do. This is one of three pieces I did for my daughters room. I painted a ‘portrait’ of each of our pets. This is Angel. A rather sausage-like lab-mix that has more personality then a school bus of [...]

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