Category: About the Art
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Catching up to 2026!
Christmas 2025 has passed and we’re now three weeks into the new year. It’s been 9 months since I last typed up a blog post, so there’s much to catch up on. I completed quite a few paintings throughout the end of 2025 and made videos for them all. Since I just mentioned Christmas: Mine…
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My Old Friend, The Pencil
There was a time, for several years while I was a game illustrator, drawing was mostly all that I did, whether with pencils, pens, or even digitally. Since I started painting more consistently, I don’t seem to draw as often. I haven’t drawn anything in a long time, so as a change of pace, I…
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“There’s A Place…”
“There’s place where I can go, when I feel low, when I feel blue….”. Those are lyrics from a song by The Beatles. It comes to my mind when I think about this painting I created a few weeks ago, because I gave the painting the same name as that Beatles song. “There’s A Place…”.…
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Saddling Up!
Hello! I am still here and I’m still making art, but sometimes I have to do other things. I started another acrylic painting back in July and I worked on it for a couple weeks and then ended up putting it down (a familiar story from me) and I didn’t pick back up on it…
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Sights of Summer
It’s time for another bimonthly installment of “what can I tell you about?” Well, I can tell you about some new artwork! Throughout the weeks of May and June, I worked on a couple of new acrylic paintings and made new time-lapse videos of these. The video shorts are shared below, but you can watch…
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April is the time when nature gets creative
…and I have followed her lead. Earlier this month my wife and I went to the Kenosha Public Museum to see the Kenosha Unified District Wide Student Art Show. The exhibition featured artwork from area grade school kids, elementary through high school. The exhibit was open to the public and ran for three weeks, but…
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Canning Season
I’ve painted with transparent watercolors many times throughout my life, but I had not encountered the joy of gouache (pronounced gwash, rhymes with squash) until 2019. Gouache paints have become one of my favorite mediums to work with. I like how it adheres smoothly and evenly onto the paper. I apply my gouache to thick…