I feel like I should apologize for being so lame in neglecting my blog. There has been sort of a perfect storm in my life as of late. Normal things like too much freelance (is that possible?) and our project at work is nearing completion, and not so normal things like Rosemary being diagnosed with cancer. But I have done a few images recently you all might enjoy...... which I shall put up momentarily. BTW Rosemary has a great blog of her own talking about what its like to endure cancer...she also has a real engaging writing style (i think.) Check it out at "My Unintentional Life". You can read her great posts and see some dorky photos of me.

The Bible speaks of Jesus' family, this is one of his brothers, James. James has his own book in the new testament and was the first bishop of Jerusalem.

This is my first sketch I'll try to take it to a finish

prize fighter 2

prize fighter

sketch 23

I created this image for a client who is always coming up with jobs that never fail to surprise me. I do enjoy them though, because it keeps me on my toes. I thought she turned out pretty good, so I decided to post the image.

found some animal sketches I did a few years ago for a client, thought you might like em.....

Emily wanted to share this illustration of her hamster.

not sure where this guy came from....

My 8 year old daughter Rachel made this really cool picture of a frog eating a bug, she wanted to share it with all of you.... enjoy!

Here's a color sketch of the first spread of the Small Mark book, its a redo of the other one I posted a while back.

I've begun working on "Small Mark" in earnest. I've decided to use "Mary Blair" arms and a warm nose and ears. Any thoughts?

more snow in the forecast

We have been stuck inside all day, too much snow!

I did some cars for a client a few years back, not the kind of thing I normally do but I thought they were pretty cool

Romans 6:23

No Money

another image for Poder magazine

great comment on today's economy, no money. . . no economy, go ask your banker

angel

Made some changes after our final critique

This is Jenny, my most recent assignment for Sam's class.

I did these little kids for Halloween a few years ago, its a bit early, but what the hey.

An updated version of the angel sketch. I changed the wings, thanks for the great critique Dave, Tyler and my pals at work!

Here is a pirate design from a few years ago

I'm teaching a character design class at work, this is my design.

This is a homework assignment for a character design class given by the incomparable Sam Nielson.
Check out his work at http://artsammich.blogspot.com/

The line art was done by the fabulously talented Joe Olson, check out his blog at http://joeolson.blogspot.com/

This image depicts an ancient myth that is found in several cultures throughout the world. The myth describes the creation of the universe and tells of an eternal struggle between angels and demons. In the myth the demons and the angels are engaged in an epic contest of tug-of-war. Each side gripping the opposite end of the great cosmic snake. As the two sides struggle, pulling back and forth on the snake, primordial cosmic matter is churned up creating all that is in the universe, planets, stars, nebulae etc. These two warring sides basically act like a great cosmic butter churn, creating our physical universe from unorganized matter.

The doctrine of God creating the universe from unorganized matter was held by the earliest Christians. Unfortunately this truth was later discarded in favor of the theory of creation "ex nihilo"or creation out of nothing. This idea was incorporated into christian thinking by later church leaders because it squared better with the incorrect views of the neo-platonists, who maintained that physical matter was evil and anathema to the Divine.

I did the demon first, cause I like bat wings, they are fun to draw, plus I wanted to paint in red today. I think will do the angels next.