So, here’s my first post in a while, and it’s regarding some bummer news. Any of you watching the news around the beginning of this month probably heard that Santa Barbara suffered from some terrible wildfires, specifically the Jesusita Fire. Well, we live within about a mile and a half from the origin of the [...]

The sketchbook project with Peter Cusack moves along, albeit at a snail’s pace, and it’s my fault it’s taking so long—I had a busy February and finally got to work on it just in the last few days. I know I keep saying this, but I’ll get to it quicker next time, Pete! Last time, [...]

My students with Margo outside her studio, which is in a converted office building that still has the original pesticide signage. Margo’s in the middle with the black shirt, and I’m the guy on the far right squinting in the bright sunlight. I’m going to shamelessly name-drop here for a moment. Two Fridays ago, I [...]

The issue containing this illustration has now seen print, so I can now show it in its entirety, as well as show the process steps. Above is the final illustration as it saw print. The article was simply about reversals in the NASDAQ market. With that basic concept in mind, I set about trying to [...]

I was asked by friend and colleague Mitchell Thomas at Westmont College if I would create the poster for their next production, a play written by one of our own college students, Diana Small. Muéveme, Muévete (Move Me, Move You) is written in the tradition of Latin-American magical realism, and concerns a young woman and [...]

A sneak peek of a detail of an illustration finished this week for my favorite Scottish art director, Christine Morrison over at Stocks & Commodities Magazine. I’ll post the full illustration and process story once the issue sees print. And yes, I served as my own model for this one.

So, I’m pretty late to the game here with an Andrew Wyeth tribute, but I’ve been thinking about his work constantly since his passing on January 16th. I had literally been talking to my students about his work just hours before he died. I didn’t care for Andrew Wyeth’s work at first. His subject matter [...]

For me, my favorite part of an illustration commission is going to the local Borders or Barnes & Noble and seeing the work on the stands. There’s something very gratifying about knowing that your work is communicating on a mass level. It occurred to me today on the way to Westmont that my cover for [...]

Can’t show the full illustration since it won’t print for another two months, but here’s a detail of a job I turned around on a tight deadline last week for Christine Morrison over at Stocks and Commodities Magazine. Always a pleasure to work with Christine. Since the deadline for this one was unusually short, there [...]

Just a quick post to give a big thumbs-up review to the new J.C. Leyendecker book. Good biographical information, well-edited, and most importantly, filled with top-notch reproductions of Leyendecker’s work. I’ve been waiting for a book like this for a long time, and it’s gratifying to see that they got it right. Go buy it [...]