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Here is an image that I sent out earlier this month as an email promo. My concern was that younger AD's wouldn't be savvy to the Pinto reference. The 70's after all, is ancient history. Instead I heard from a couple of AD's who actually owned Pintos and got an assignment from an AD who used to drive a  Ford Maverick. I also heard from a buddy who works in big truck garage who told me the cartoon was a big hit among the drivers. Now if I could only get them to assign some illustration.

]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:36:26 EST http://www.drawger.com/may4th/index.php?section=articles&article_id=9859

For the past several months I have been posting a drawing everyday on facebook as a way of getting some sketchbook material "out there". With the seismic change in the illustration markets, it has been my opinion that the more irons you have in the fire the better. Social networking as marketing  is something that I think deserves our attention given the sheer enormity of the phenomenon. Last weekend I attended a workshop at the Helen Day Art Center on social networking and had my first taste of Twitter. I still have alot of homework to do, but it seems like it might be a way to draw people into a site, providing you have interesting content and merchandise readily available online.On another front, my prints were recently accepted into The Artful Home site, and I am hoping for some traction there. Where's it all going? Damned if I know. But I do believe there are opportunities out there. Here are some samples of what I've been putting up on Facebook.















]]> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:00:49 EST http://www.drawger.com/may4th/index.php?section=articles&article_id=9648

Lately I've changed my approach to acrylic painting. I'm trying to be more spontaneous and painting without preconcieved notions a la Adolph Gottlieb or Philip Guston. And it's driving me crazy second, third and fourth guessing myself. My elecrtic sander has been getting  quite a workout. In reaction to those trials and tribulations, I decided to break out the watercolors.  I am enjoying the change of pace and and the quickness. I can finish one fairly quickly and move on to the next idea. Speaking of ideas, for some reason turtles have been making an appearance in my sketchbooks. I'm not sure why, but I suspect it's because they're easy to draw and their primordial quality appeals to me.

















]]> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:01:08 EST http://www.drawger.com/may4th/index.php?section=articles&article_id=9260

I love it when personal work and assignments intersect. SooJin Buzelli had seen a painting I did for a book that I've been working on called SHTBNALD.  She gave me an assignment to illustrate and article on suits. Or at least that's the gist I got, because to be honest, the article was pretty heavy slogging. We had a conversation and agreed that the comet as metaphor for suits was pretty cool. Like incoming space debris, litigation is often out of the blue and devastating.









As Cathie has pointed out, there is a ton of great illustration in this issue. Check it out here.

]]> Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:07:19 EST http://www.drawger.com/may4th/index.php?section=articles&article_id=9303

Lately I've been putting up a drawing a day on my Facebook page as a way of getting some of my sketchbook stuff out there. A couple of weeks ago I posted the above drawing. Later in the day I was speaking with a good friend from Albuquerque and this drawing happened to be on my computer screen. While we were engaged in a free ranging conversation, I started to look at the drawing and started to see the possibilities for primitive figures emerge. For the next several weeks I explored melding words, primitive forms and watercolors in the form of a series of paintings. The words came via free association and I only used a dictionary to check spelling ( and even then there are mispellings) I'm  sure a therapist could have a field day with this stuff.









In the middle of all this I received an assignment from Emily Aldrich in Minneapolis to illustrate an article for the Kenyon College Alumni magazine about a woman who translates poetry. This piece dovetailed perfectly with the word paintings I had been doing and gave me the opportunity to try something different.



]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:35:52 EST http://www.drawger.com/may4th/index.php?section=articles&article_id=8975



When I started out in illustration, I always brought along a sketchbook when showing my portfolio and the sketchbook more often than not got a better reception than my portfolio. Even now when I do art fairs I still bring one or two along for folks interested in process. They always seem to get a good responses. The problem with sketchbooks has always been the inability to share them. They take up a considerable amount of shelf space gathering dust. But now we have new technologies to mess around with. So in an effort to "get it out there", here's Volume 72 that I did between April 9th and August 16, 2009. I hope you dig it.

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