More animals on bikes…

This is a piece that will not be in the first batch of shirts. Not sure if it will be used at all for anything… Seems like MAYBE I should have thought about that BEFORE I spent a few days working on it. But it’s hard to stop a piece one I get going. I [...]

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it’s on a shirt

I have been finishing up 6 paintings that are for a line of Tee-shirts, for both kids and adults. I will post more about them as the release day approaches. This is one of the final pieces. It’s been fun to have a really open range of topics and content to paint. Each shirt has [...]

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a little Cave Bear and Duck

Just a page from the ol cave Bear and Duck comic. See more here.

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Off subject Wednesday

“In the past when the ICRC has made a big deal about certain detainees, the DOD (Defense Department) has ‘moved’ them away from the attention of the ICRC,” Fredman said, according to the minutes.
America. Hiding prisoners from the International Red Cross. Can you imagine what the Bush administration would say about a country that would [...]

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Illustration Monday: Paul and Gëtan Brizzi

If you are not familiar with the work of these two brothers, check the site linked below. If you are a person who loves draftsmanship skills, it doesn’t get too much better than the Brizzi brothers.
I have never met them. But when I worked at Disney TV Animation in current production I had many opportunities [...]

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Down on the farm

This is a picture book piece I recently put some finishing touches on. Entirely done in Photoshop. I have a dozen pieces for this story completed. It’s an odd story, something I think I just have to finish. No way I can send it out until it is entirely done. The manuscript and images create [...]

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float into the wild blue yonder…

I’m not sure I know what exactly ‘yonder’ is. But this little girl is floating in that general direction, only to be almost knocked back to earth by a jet plane.
From a picture book concept.

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collage – free and fun

I like doing collage, which usually separates me from fellow cartoonists. I love the freedom that comes from speaking another language and collage can really set you free. This is from a series of posters I did for a friends play in Los Angeles a few years back. I have continued to use the style [...]

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it’s monsters, you know, little monsters…

I posted a portion of this work-in-progress a week ago. It’s almost done now. Time to put the pixels onto that external drive. I mentioned this is from a picture book story I was writing, but was never happy with. I finished a few pieces of art from the story and have decided to put [...]

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Where do you get your inspiration?

I do these things called ‘cartoons’ sometimes. Over on another site. What is my inspiration? Oregon in this case. I live in Oregon. Enough said.

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