TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Before The Paint
The Character In Context Show first opened in 2024 at the A. R. Mitchell Museum in Trinidad, Colorado, and becomes an annual show with it's return this coming May. The show is curated by fellow illustrator Elliot Lang, and has a unique focus on the process that goes into artists creating human-made, hand-crafted artwork. Each artwork is accompanied by an artifact of the preliminary process, hanging alongside the final. Starting this new painting during the…
YESTERDAY’S POST
a Thanksgiving story
November 14, 2024 - Don’t have much art that I can show at the moment, so I thought I’d treat you to a fun thanksgiving story. This one time, years ago back when I was just starting out, a friend of mine reached out to me with a prospective illustration job. It was 1996, I was living in El Paso Texas, before I’d moved to San Francisco and gone to art school. Art jobs were scarce and you took what you could get. My friend was into concert promotion stuff in Austin, and somehow he’d gotten wrapped up with these rave promoters who needed a flyer designed, and they were willing to pay $300 dollars for it. The hitch was they wanted me to travel to San Antonio to do it, Which was unusual, but at the time, I…
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