posted: November 29, 2010

Couple #117 | Monotype | 12" x 15" | Oil on Japanese Paper | 2010

Here are some new Monotypes that I made to continue my personal exploration of the mythical human figure engaged. It is so much fun to try and draw archetypal relationships of connection, emotion and feeling and put that on an inanimate sheet of paper. In my view as an artist, it is what we are all striving to do, connect to the viewer through emotion, intellect and design. Over the weekend my gallery caught a young couple posed and smooching in front of one of my pieces, I loved hearing that. To view more work in this style please take a look at my Couples series.

Couple #118 | Monotype | 12" x 15" | Oil on Japanese Paper | 2010

Couple #119 | Monotype | 12" x 15" | Oil on Japanese Paper | 2010

Couple #120 | Monotype | 12" x 15" | Oil on Japanese Paper | 2010

Brown Pelican | Archival Giclée Print | 12x15" image 17x20" paper | Somerset Velvet | 2010

Here is a print just in time for the holidays. I originally created "Brown Pelican" in response to the BP environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The piece caught the attention of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project and those good folks have been very supportive of my work. I sold the original and received enough print orders to release an archival print in an edition of 35. I worked closely with the printer to produce a print that I can honestly say looks as good as the original. $65.00 includes shipping in the U.S.

Save Them All #1 | Monotype | 12" x 15" | Oil on Japanese Paper | 2010

Save Them All #2 | Monotype | 12" x 15" | Oil on Japanese Paper | 2010

I was honored and happy to hear that these 2 Turtle Monotypes were juried into the Illustrators 53 Institutional Exhibit. These pieces were part of a series created through an invitation by the Sea Turtle Restoration Project to participate in a show and benefit titled, "Save Them All" to help restore habitat destroyed by the BP oil spill. Thank you, Society of Illustrators!   Society of Illustrators
Illustrators 53
Advertising and Institutional Exhibit
February 23- March 19, 2011      

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posted: November 12, 2010

This was a fun piece to illustrate for design director Steven Banks at Los Angeles Magazine. I hadn't worked for Steve since the mid 90's when he and Nancy Duckworth art directed the Los Angeles Times Magazine. It was a real pleasure working for him again. This is a story about Occidental Petroleum, the Westwood-based and publicly held oil company that was paying their chief executive $31m a year and the board finally decided it was too much and that he should be ousted! The company is notorious for keeping a very low profile with no ties or contributions to the city of Los Angeles. Come on big oil, spread the wealth, build some schools, somethin'. My ideas worked around excessive CEO compensation and his predecessor, being booted and a lack of concern for the city and,,, Oil!

design sketches

alternative color choice

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posted: November 8, 2010

I have recently enjoyed the fabulous feeling of Deja Vu working for a few art directors that supported my work through the crazy dot com era and one favorite was, Carole Erger-Fass who back then was Design Director at Mecklermedia, publishers of Virtual Reality World, CDrom World, and Internet World. For a short period during this time I was experimenting with 3D modeling as illustration and created work for Virtual Reality World and CDrom World among others. To create a reproduction quality model in the 90's required my Mac Quadra 600 8 hours to render. I would render at night and wake up several times to check on the rendering, an instant blip in power could corrupt a rendering, talk about stress!

My 3D Illustration style from the 90's

3D modeling has come a long way since the 90's. Yesterday, In a related experience, myself Gwyn and our daughter Jillian were given a tour of Ex'pression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville Ca. by her friend Kyle, who is studying motion graphics. Kyle showed us the motion capture studio which has a stage surrounded by cameras where students wear suits fitted with mirrored balls and these 360 degree cameras pick up the body movements and create articulate 3D skeletal models. He showed us his project and it was so fun to see kids inspired and creating with such powerful equipment and software, best of luck in your studies Kyle.

Getting back to this illustration. Carole, now art director at Chief Executive Magazine hired me to create this illustration for the story, "The Devil in the Data of Financial Reform" . This is a story about new requirements in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. There has been a new governmental oversight council developed that will process huge amounts of data looking for systemic risk factors within lending and financial institutions. Sounds like a nightmare, but it was a fun job to illustrate. Nice working with you again, Carole!

Devil Detail

Design Sketches

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