This one has been floating around in my head for a while. The third in my New Wave lyrics series, it’s from Is She Really Going Out With Him? by Joe Jackson. One of the things that drew me to doing this series is the potential for putting down in …
Octavia Butler is one of my favorite authors. “Dawn” is probably my favorite, but I love all of her work. This is a very straight-forward portrait. The nebula behind her was a last-minute concept. I wanted something super colorful, but not a direct take on her actual novels. Afterwards, I …
The concept for this editorial cartoon came to me on a run yesterday. I hadn’t even been thinking about Trump at all (that was a short, yet lovely break), but as I was on my cool-down, it kind of just burst into my head. Most of the time when I …
This is a personal project I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I’m kind of a scavenger, and I find a lot of free furniture in the alley behind our home in LA. that only needs minor fixes to be awesome. In this case, I found matching wooden barstools …
She’s filing her nails while they’re draggin’ the lake… Elvis Costello
These are some portraits that I did recently for an online MBA program. I think I did about 20 of these. They were a lot of fun to do, I loved solving the problem of using a mostly monochromatic palette, yet making certain areas stand out. The client asked for …
There are certain lines from songs that stand out to me, that i just love. No particular reason, something just grabs me, you know? For the longest time I’ve been collecting them in my head and I thought it would be fun to create illustrations for them. I was never …
Did you know that I wrote a book on customer service for small business people? I love to write, it’s almost as big a compulsion for me as drawing stuff. This was a challenge for me, mostly because I was so close to the material. My writer brain person kept …
