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Giffy art therapy. It’s a new method for dispelling fears, by focusing on them!

More jiggly stuff @ my Docu-Comix site

My new site for Non-fiction Comics & Time-Lapse Animations! See it HERE

Very excited to have had the opportunity to create concept art for animated biographies at the Smithsonian’s ‘American Enterprise’ exhibition - featuring leaders, thinkers & do-ers from the onset of industrialization through the Labor Rights Movement. Written/produced/animated by Benjamin Goldman Pictures. See the online version (soon) & get more info here

falling bodies…study for illustration of a poem by Hafiz, Persian mystic from the 13th century.

Re-designed covers for 4 of my all-time favorite books. 

The Walking Shadow of Danny O’Shea – film short made in Taos, NM. Charcoal illustrations appeared as still screens wherever special effects would have been necessary (scene at the Louvre, shape-shifting character, etc), giving it a unique film/graphic-novel kind of feel.

Graphic novel biography about Nikola Tesla - inventor of AC current & the basis for modern civilization. Fascinating character. This was a dream job to illustrate! Written by Abigail Samoun. Few copies left, mail order, here

Produced by Benjamin Goldman Pictures….here’s a sneak peek at my concept art for short animated bios in the American Labor Movement. Commissioned by the National Museum of American History. Open to the public this July!

Coffee Roasters in New Mexico - branding, package design, illustrations.

Wooden box installations for ‘Keep of Ravens’

Personal project. It’s currently my desktop wallpaper. I titled it ‘Git Shit Done’. I had fun researching the history of scissors, in the process.

More illustrative collages for the fabulous Pig Iron!

I had to turn in a resume the other week (for the first time in 5 years!) & I must say i was dragging feet & biting nails over how these things are supposed to look. Then my sis-in-law encouraged me to think outside the box, & I came up with a comic book version. Which took way too long but amused me greatly in the process.

I have an interview up on Mommikin  — ‘Creative Moms Unite!’ —…lotsa mutual inspiration going on at this site, I recommend a thorough perusal.

Mysteriously, the number 7 is featuring prominently on my project list this past year…(I had the urge just now to look it up). Anyhow, I’m working on a project that is part branding, part book design, part musical performance. Central to the theme is one of empathy and suffering. Here are two explorations at the final round here….I have questions about how graphic to be, how much detail to include, color saturation levels. Less is usually more, but it takes a chunk of time to find that balance. 

Now that I’m teaching comics, I’ll be sketching & posting more progress on my graphic novel (gotta walk the talk) & would welcome any feedback. Paneled formats of any kind usually pose a kind of compositional-hellishness for preventing visual chaos. Or it’s a healthy challenge, if you prefer to think of it that way.

This is not recent, but I forgot to repost after website overhaul until now. Very Poe-inspired, of course.

The next story-based educational game from MidSchoolMath…under development…aims to take students on a merchant trading adventure amid 1600’s-era high seas. I designed a few initial concepts plus these avatars which students personalize by uploading their own photo portraits in the center space. 

Starting a Comix club this Friday, ages 9 - 13. I’m thrilled to have teaching back in my life. Hit me up if you wanna be a guest presentor/speaker!

It’s once again, Valentine’s….month. Is that the only defining characteristic of February? Anyhow, it reminds me of this logo from a past project, in which the business folded but I always liked the result.

Package design/illustration for a new gourmet ice cream brand emerging in LA soon…better hope they can airlift their products, if you don’t live within driving distance. 

Year of the Sheep calendar….check! My all-time favorite holiday. Somehow end of February is a time when I’m actually able to process the previous year & to think about what themes reflect things that actually matter to me in the new year to come. (I think I’m selling them locally, but email me if you insist on having one & are far from Portland - I could stick ‘em on my webstore if there’s a screaming demand?)