Newest book illustrations. The story of a little Sheltie who runs off in a thunderstorm, gets lost and spends the night living under a backyard grill.  Based on a true story, he was found, renamed Weber, brought to a shelter and rescued by a volunteer.  Weber will touch your heart as you share his journey to his forever home where he will always be safe.

Speaking of Dinosaurs

Recently published in Prehistoric Times magazine.
My depiction of a Plateosaurus.

Coming Soon!

Dinosaur Teacher

No, not a teacher who still teaches the way they did 45 years ago.
Why we as artist, like dinosaurs so much. Some of us anyway. I have a keen interest in illustrating dinosaurs. Why? There seems to be such a fascination with these creatures which we develop at a young age. Especially for those who love to draw. My first drawings as a child were of dinosaurs. I can remember learning to color "in the lines" in a dinosaur coloring book. Who cares? No one. Only those who also like this as a subject. But, because we found something we were awed by so long ago brought us to hand drawn lines on paper. That helped us develop the skills necessary to build other images of form and structure. You had to make the dinosaur look REAL. Shadows, perspective, movement. Then you had to place him in a real looking environment. Then... imaginations began to soar.
And they are still soaring higher than ever.

Keeping up

Haven't been here in awhile. Busy trying to do real work. Latest accomplishment would be the publishing of my wife's and my children's book, "Flip Flop Flo, the Know it All." It is doing well, the ages 3-6 seem to really enjoy it. AND it's on Amazon! A true indicator of success, like getting your name in the phone book back when.

A New Year

The far off future world of 2010 A.D. is here!
Well, it was the future when I was young. It had flying cars and hotels on Mars, clothes that dried at a push of a button on your sleeve, etc. But I still use a pencil to draw on paper. Yes, there is that old time MAC computer in front of me to do the digital stuff now and then. I couldn't stand doing a pastup the wax or rubber cement and illustration board way. The horror.

Getting back to business

Times have changed for those of us who chose graphic arts as our vocation. If you have been doing graphic design long enough, you first worked with illustration board, x-acto knives, Letraset®, (or PressType®, ah, those were the days) and non-repro blue pencils. Then, an amazing technological breakthrough in the '80's. Desktop publishing. It was great for making "pancake breakfast" notices and such, then with ever increasing sophisticated graphic software, we were able to actually design flyer's, catalogs and annual reports, not to mention ads with juxtaposed images not easily done before. Gone were rubylith and acetate overlays. Some printers and designers didn't keep up with this change. Others flourished.
Now. Now it has happened again. Sort'a crept up on some of us, even though it was obvious to the rest of the world. Web, SEO, PHP, web 2.0, Java, CSS, action script and on and on. Should we as graphic designers/artist know these "things?"
Yes... at least in my opinion, at least the basics.