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Music I Don’t Mention Enough

I rarely talk about the music I listen to when I am creating, and I really should mention it more often. Music plays such an integral part of everything do. Obviously, it’s a big component of my short films – but beyond that, I listen to music when I am drawing, painting, designing and building 3D objects.

Music helps me create a rich and varied creative landscape of ideas, patterns and…

    Above: Winter Break – 1920×1244 pixel Printable Digital image given out to my Art Peeps mailing list. If you’d like to receive free art work, just add your email address here. 

  As I embark upon my winter break for 2019 I am already thinking about 2020 and what projects I intend to tackle.

I think I will finish my coffee table digital art book, Intersection, in 2020. Although I have not…

Why Real Artists Get Discouraged

A banana, duct-taped to a wall went on a sale at Art Basel Miami Beach this week — priced at around $120,000. And, according to the gallery behind the work, two of the three editions have already sold, with the last now going for even more.

It takes me days, sometimes weeks to finish an illustration. I am nearly 65, no illustration I have ever made has ever sold above $100.00  My work has never…

Next year and every year thereafter, my studio will be closed during the month of December. Between repeated power outages, sick cats, random loss of the internet – I am getting farther and farther behind in my commitments this month BOTH personal and professional. This is stressing me out big time and is no fun – at all.

The mechanical pencil pictured above was my Christmas present to myself…

I am very excited to roll-out my newest project – Happy Planet Greetings & Postcards!

A Bookmark is a very small thing. Creating 30 of them in 30 days along with 10 short films was challenging but what I learned along the way was invaluable. Donating 50% of the profits to the World Wildlife Fund made me feel so good, too.

Imagine what this world would be like if we each did one small thing…

I’m cutting and trimming the laminated bookmarks today and Jack is busy checking the quality of each bookmark to insure you get the best possible product.

Just got to be careful where you put your tail, Jack!!

Until next time …

Bookmark Production UPDATE! All bookmarks have been printed ( and I did not run out of ink, Thank the Printer Gods ) Next will be trimming, laminating and corner rounding with my mysterious new tool …

As I am wrapping-up production on the Bookmark Orders I have my sights set on my next project, tonight I designed the logo for it and after I get all these bookmarks in the mail I will be doing my…