Monday, June 8, 2026

Blue & White Invitational At The Holland Museum

 

Oceanic Tendrils
9x12
scratchboard/clayboard and watercolor

I will have a piece in the Blue & White Invitational at the Holland Museum. The exhibit starts this Friday and runs through October. You can get all the details HERE




This is my second gallery show of the year (there will be a third) and my first ever at a museum, so that's exciting. 

The show is inspired by the Delft collection at the museum, so anything blue and white was fair game. Of course, I went weird. Weird, you say? Pshaw, it's normal where I operate. Tentacles, sharks and gulper eels... I hang with only the best creatures.

So, make sure to tell your friends and if you find yourself on the west side of the state of Michigan, then check it out. It's a cool museum and city, as well.


Friday, June 5, 2026

A Tracery Of Loss

 Here is the second illustration that I did for Mary Stebbins Taitt's book of poetry titled When Time Stumbled. It's a simple image for some strong imagery. 


9x9 

ink on bristol board


Here is the poem by Mary:

A Tracery Of Loss

While spray painting a fern for a collage,

I left behind a tracery of the space

around the fern and an absence where the fern

had been, which reminded me of the shadows

of people left by the bomb,

which in turn reminded me of that giant you-shaped hole

in my heart now that you are gone.


  You can pick up a copy of When Time Stumbled here


Sunday, May 31, 2026

Robots, Aliens, Heroes, and Villains...

And a lizard, too. 


My latest Substack is up and is all about some watercolor pop culture images that I did some time ago and forgot about. You can click HERE to check them out.


Friday, May 29, 2026

Belleville Drink N Draw May 2026

 This past Wednesday was the May edition of the Belleville Drink N Draw at Egan's Pub. I worked on a few ideas for some cartoons, a fantasy job and sketched one of our sketchers, although it really doesn't look like her.


colored pencil in sketchbook


The little chickadee is my fantasy idea of attempting to instill some culture in the city where I reside. It'll never happen, but I can dream. I have another idea involving the military museum near my house. I can design a better sign than what they have...


These little catfish are for a cartoon that I will soon do, involving them and a kayak. Hilarious.

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Antlered Maul

 

9x12
ink on bristol board

Over the weekend at the Cherry Capital Comic Con, I did this drawing of Darth Maul, with his horns forming something of a crown. Antlered, so to speak. The idea coming from pal and fellow artist Bryan Mazany. I wanted to do something focused on a new show or movie and the new Darth Maul series Maul: Shadow Lord recently dropped, so that's where I went. Disclaimer: He doesn't have a crown of horns in the series. 

The drawing was done at Friday night's Drink N Draw event and all the drawings done that night were auctioned off on Saturday night's after party. And wouldn't ya know it, Bryan bid on and won the drawing. 

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Cherry Capital Comic Con 2026

 


I have been so gosh darned busy the past few days that I almost forgot to post about this weekend. Yikes! So, I will be set up in Artists Alley at the Cherry Capital Comic Con at the Grand Traverse Resort in Acme (Traverse City), MI the entire weekend. I'll have books, comics, prints, stickers, original art, including AP sketch cards, etc.

Stop on by, if you are in the area! There will be plenty of cool artists there!

Friday, May 15, 2026

The Gentoo Scratchboard Process

 


My latest Substack is up and has a brief description of the process of creating the gentoo penguin scratchboard. You can check it out HERE.