The code — use it.

My art web­site has been around for more than a decade.  You can find car­toons dat­ing back to 1993, I think.  The prob­lem with hav­ing a web­site main­tained by only one per­son, namely me, over that length of time, is that iner­tia makes it hard to make big changes. The larger the web­site became the [...] Read more »

Imperfect Action

We artists are an inter­est­ing lot.  Many artists wait for the fire to strike before lay­ing the brush to can­vas, but not all.  Some of us plan our work in such detail the com­pleted can­vas is in our mind’s eye before we ever lay the brush to the canvas. Either way, many of us wreck [...] Read more »

Don’t paint it black

I am often asked about my fram­ing options-I don’t offer a whole heck of a lot-I usu­ally frame with a white or off-white mat in a nar­row black cor­po­rate style frame. If the work doesn’t need a mat I usu­ally frame with a sim­ple wooden frame hav­ing no fancy fil­lets, coves or bevels. Peo­ple ask [...] Read more »

Loving the Embrace of Nightfall

In the midst of the Binary Birds series I was con­tacted out of the blue by an artist out of  Florida.  She com­mented on my paint­ing Mother Night, which made me think about it some.  Since I am in the midst of my 100 Paint­ings projects I do not turn down any ideas that feed [...] Read more »

Andy Warhol Lives On!

Ever since I started doing PopCult paint­ings I have wanted to do some­thing inspired by Andy Warhol.  But I have never been one to just copy some­thing.  The germ of the idea behind Social Net­work­ing! came to me as soon as I started doing the Binary Birds, but it did not erupt as a full [...] Read more »