What I've Done In December

I did paintings for people for Christmas. Before they got all wrapped up I snapped a few pics. Posterity may not care, but I wanted to show why I didn't get any comics done. I also did them all at night, so being on vacation as teacher really didn't help all that much.

My wife made some really rad sock monkeys for a bunch of the little kids in our family. My daughter fell in love with the idea, so I painted her a sock monkey ballerina.

My son is really into robots and planes and spacehsips and stuff right now. All boy. This painting started life as something totally else, then when I decided not to paint it for that person, I looked at what I had and saw the robot and the little robots. While painting it, I stumbled into and idea for a body of work for my graduate thesis in Graphic Design and Illustration.


This one is for my sister. I get her name in the drawing. I'm basically her interior decorator. So complaints about her decor direct to me. Complaints about her maid, direct to her. I ain't got nothin' to do wi'that.

For my sweetie. Sappy and cutesie. Kinda like me.

For my brother. I was definitely on a robot/space kick.

For my brother and sister and law for their anniversary/upcoming baby present.

Oh, and yeah, I applied and got into grad school.

Eostre Mix For My Homies

Every year I make an Eostre mix for my family and have fun with the cover. Here's this year's.


Also, here's some quick scans of some painting s in progress for a local art gallery's Green themed show. I used the theme "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". I even painted them on old cereal boxes. This was the most pure painting I've done in a long time. It was pretty fun.

Bunny Suit-ness

Christmas 2008 painting for Erin.i

Half Pint Half Stack...done

Finished painting for the Guitar Show. I had fun painting this once I got going. I started the darn thing a year ago. I love texture and flat images and I've been working with flat, painted textures in the background and laying my cartoony images over the top.

"Beauty Comes More Often To Those Who Do Not Wait For It"

My sister's Christmas present painting. Ostensibly her and her daughter, metaphorically it's more the precocious women and girls in my life whom I love and admire. 16"x20" Acrylic, Ceiling Texture and Ink.

A Cage, A Key, A Flock Of Seagulls

Quick postcard size painting.