Just got informed that this piece for Stocks & Commodities Magazine was accepted into the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles 50th Illustration West competition. Looking forward to seeing the show when it’s up at Galley Nucleus!

Happy Halloween, everyone! This is an image I painted as a promo piece, to show clients that I can do political caricature. And given the time of year, it seemed logical to go with a Halloween theme for the image, so put politics + Halloween together and in my head, at least, you get Michelle [...]

I’m a member of the art faculty at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, and our new art museum is having a fundraiser show this November. They sent out almost 1000 sheets of 5×5 BFK Rives paper to artists all over the country, and asked them to do a drawing or painting on the paper [...]

Been a while since I’ve done a process post, so here are the steps for a job done two weeks ago for art director Todd Bates at Creative Loafing Tampa. The cover story was a fairly straightforward one: the Republican National Convention is coming to Tampa Bay next year, and the city is already looking [...]

The Wall Street Journal iPad app version of the article Here are two recent assignments. First up was a job for Pete Hausler at the Wall Street Journal, for an article about women’s summer shoes that will destroy your feet. The night before it published, I was up late reading and it suddenly occurred to [...]

If any readers of this blog will be attending this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, then please come find me over at the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles booth, #2616! I’ll be doing an oil painting demo on Thursday at 2pm and a digital painting demo on Saturday at 2pm right at the SILA booth, located [...]

Had a busy Memorial Day weekend doing work for some great new clients. First up was a cover and interior for Peter Storch over at the Phoenix New Times. The article was about Supreme Master Ching Hai and her chain of vegan restaurants called Loving Hut. The article notes her self-proclaimed status as a being [...]

I always enjoy sneak peeks into the studios of other artists, so thought I’d finally post my own contribution to that meme. These photos were taken by the masterful Brad Elliott last summer. The curious can click on the photos for a closer look. My computer workstation. Macbook Pro laptop on the right, powering the [...]

Been working on and off on these two images for the past two weeks. These are for the first annual Cock-A-Doodle-Doo invitational group gallery show, opening this weekend at TCSB in Santa Barbara. The dots in the background on the top piece just about killed me, but I’m overall happy with how these turned out. [...]

Everyone’s favorite Scottish art director, Christine Morrison, called me back in December to do a cover for Stocks & Commodities Magazine. These articles tend to be dense, complex financial reports, so we always look for a hook within the text to base the illustration on. In this case, the writer made note of how the [...]