Gong Feast
I worked on this postcard design for an upcoming shadow puppet show I'm puppeteering along with the fun folks at Gong Lab. On the printed collectible version, ...
People on the Train
Most of the folks read or sleep or play with their phones, so its rare I get to draw someone looking up. The Asian man on the left was watching a movie on his laptop and started to cry in the middle of me drawing. I can't remember the ...
Bird Scout
A friend of mine had a fun idea to create a shadow puppet show in the style of those ink prints from woodcuts. This here is my first attempt to create something digitally. It was ridiculously fun to make and I didn't have to kill my carpal tunnels carving real wood....
Chiditarod 2011 Poster
This is the poster I submitted for the event (it didn't win the contest). Come check out the most excellent event! Chiditarod VI. March 5, 2011 On March 5th Chicago's mushers, artists, philanthropists, action heros, pub-crawlers, ...
Chiditarod 2011
Come check out an excellent event I won a logo contest for: Chiditarod VI. March 5, 2011 On March 5th Chicago's mushers, artists, philanthropists, action heros, pub-crawlers, professional badasses, cartoon characters, activists, ninjas, saboteurs, old people, robots and enthusiastic leisurists ...
Octocalypse
A giant octopus is causing the apocalypse by burning everything to the ground. This one's sort of self-explanatory. Octocalypse - 2010 Acrylic on Cardboard.
dream machine
2010 - Mixed media on stretched canvas 28" x 42" - SOLD This painting formed around the dream I have of there being a hidden design or intelligence behind the chaos of daily life. At first glance ...
pisces
2010 - Mixed media on canvas 8' x 12" - SOLD A portion of a large canvas mural in a private collection.
tv in space
2009 - Acrylic on cardboard Painting over a crappy $3 thrift store print of a dutch painting to create a lady watching TV in outer space as she works on stitching up her spirit bear. 2009 - acrylic on cardboard
bedroom
At 6' x 8' this is one of the first larger paintings I've begun. If I didn't need the wall space, I could work on this one for years. 2010 - acrylic on mural canvas
picnic paint
2010 -Photograph from art event - in the Willow Ranch collection One of the fun collaborative art pieces done during the regional Burning Man event at the Willow Ranch in Michigan. Everyone had such a blast with this ...
blue baggage
2010 - Mixed media on stretched canvas 28" x 42" - $ 620 This is the first in a series of abstract figure paintings I started in 2010, called Blue Baggage.
open your head
2010 - Acrylic on canvas - 10" x 12" $ SOLD This was my first attempt at recycling used thrift store canvases. It was originally a Chinese bird painting that was old, formulaic and fading. It's now ...
holy man
2009 - Acrylic on cardboard $ 80 I don't think I've ever seen a black Jesus or holy painting in a thrift store, so I figured I should make one. I painted over what used to be Jesus ...
crazy eddie
2008 - Acrylic on canvas 12" x 14" - $ 60 Crazy Eddie. He'll try to sell you a car that you just sold him.
figure sketch
2008 - pastel on paper Part of a larger figure sketch done at the Division St. Artist's Guild when we had weekly figure drawing workshops.
psychometrist
Sketch of a guy who looks like he could assign 10 DSM-IV labels to you from 20 feet away. 2008 - Charcoal on newsprint
self portrait
2008 - Acrylic on canvas - 12" x 14" $ 160 This was the first painting I completed since I was a kid. My wife says the eyes follow you around the room, so I guess that part was ...
jungle loves robot
After managing to escape the abyss, Jimmy tried hiding out in the jungle, only to find the jungle and circus animals, too loved him. There's no escape, man. 2001 - Digital ink and watercolor
swim jimmy, swim!
This was the start of my fascination with nature's primal love for robots. They're all very excited to give Jimmy a hug, I imagine. 2000 - Digital ink and watercolor
blue box
This was my first attempt at digital art back in 1997 when I got my first Wacom drawing tablet. I guess I was feeling tormented by class schedules :-P 1997 - Digital ink and watercolor
reoccurring dream
When I was a little kid, I'd have these strange dreams right as I was falling asleep, where everything was simultaneously both big and small, near and far. It was a terrifying world that would probably drive you ...
i like candy
Fun with toy train miniatures. This was a gift for a musician friend who early in his songwriting career wrote a very inappropriate song about child abduction. The song garnered such controversy it was rejected by the record ...
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