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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

It’s taken me a long time to finally post these images! Last summer, I spent an incredible morning studying several key J.C. Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post paintings up close and in person, and was able to take the following detail shots of a few of them. I’ll keep the owner’s identity anonymous to preserve privacy, [...]

For the third year now, I had the pleasure of illustrating and designing the poster/theme art for the Westmont Christmas Festival series of concerts. Yesterday, they experienced a new record: two of the three shows completely sold out the day the tickets became available! It all begins with the sketch. Ballpoint pen on post-it note. [...]

The Gallery Nucleus show was great! If you haven’t been before, it gets my highest recommendation. A wonderful, open gallery space run by Wade Buchanan, with an awesome bookstore in the front. Someone was taking photos of the show and got this great shot of my Knight piece, so I’m reposting it here. Thanks to [...]

I’m heading down to ICON later this week, and am excited to be part of a group show that is tied into the conference. The exhibition is titled ICON 6: A Labor of Line, and features a great lineup of illustrators. The knight painting above is my contribution to the show, and it is for [...]

Finished this over a week ago and just forgot to post until now. The latest entry in my “dialogue” with friend and fellow artist Peter Cusack. Peter’s last entry was of a farmer with some cows, so I answered with this little Halloween cow (my daughter in her first trick-or-treating costume).

Been a long while since posting, and that’s because I’ve been buried in work, much of it for this upcoming show. Hope all those reading this in the Santa Barbara area will be able to attend. 5:30-7:30 p.m. this Friday, May 14th, at the clubhouse of the Tennis Club of Santa Barbara.

Time for some art. Recent painting done for fun, a few brushstrokes at a time over the course of several months. Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 8×8 inches.