Cutting Room Comic

I LOVE comics like no other art form, so I was pleased as punch when I was offered the opportunity to do a guest strip for the web comic "The Cutting Room". This could be a step in the right direction to starting my own web comic material, we'll just have to wait and see.

Also, special thanks to Alejandro Acevedo for these colors, which actually make my work look halfway decent. hahaha.

Enjoy these jokes about netspeak.

Inspirational Illustrations: Under the Umbrella

Lately we've had our share of on and off showers. Its the resulting humidity thats been unbearable.

Coles Phillips

Ren Wicks

Okay, she's not under an umbrella, but she in underwear and theres an umbrella, so yeah...

Bartlett Kobe

Gil Evlgren

Charles Twelevetrees

Incidentally, how is it that someone with such a memorable name has been off my radar until now?

George Petty

It just amuses me the way Petty painstakingly paints these gorgeous figures, and yet he will leave accessory items, such as her boots as mere outlines. Something about the unfinished nature of the piece strikes me as funny.

Gil Elvgren

The transparent raincoat is one thing, but were does someone get transparent high heeled boots?

1956 Morton Salt Logo

Coby Whitmore

Morgan Kane

Yet another poster for "Splash" for this blog.

Coby Whitmore

Robert McGinnis

More of a parasol than a umbrella, but whatcha gonna do?

Jack Klay

Tim Sale

JC Leyendecker

Xavier Ramonède

Tim Sale

Next Week: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Manifest Destiny

Heres a glimpse at my latest project, which could take a substantial amount of time. Midland Christian School was pleased with the painting I did for their Santa Parade Float that I was asked to paint a mural for their sixth grade classroom depicting great moments in American history.

Depicting so many famous moments, people and conflicts proved to be incredibly complicated and would be just shy of impossible to finish by the time school was ready to start in the fall, so I simplified the idea, focusing on transportation and expansion. Starting with the arrival of settlers, traveling westward by wagon, blasting through mountain to forge the railroads, before we slip into the twentieth century with the building of skyscrapers and a copper Lady Liberty waits to welcome a new generation of settlers while we find new means of expansion in the automobile, airplane and finally the space shuttle.

The plan is for the mural to go in a corner, hence the dividing line between mountains and city, with the  stars and stripes of the American flag connecting the two halves.

The final project will be an estimated 8 x 16 feet in size.

Be sure and check out my previous murals here.

Inspirational Illustrations: Witchy Woman

He married a witch and she married Mr. Hyde. Sounds like a decent match to me.

Yoshitaka Amano

Luis Richardo Falero

Dave Stevens

George Petty

Penot Sabbat

Dave Dunstan

Adam Hughes

Albert Dorne

Thats a witch by the juke box, it counts!

Alex Ross

Charles Addams

Luis Richardo Falero

Dorothy Lathrop

Gil Elvgren

Francis Xaiver Leyendecker

Frank Frazetta

H.J. Ford

Ida Ouhtwaite

Ida Outhwaite

Joe Grant

Kunz Meyer

Lawrence Stevens

Luis Richardo Falero

O' Malley

Ren Wicks

Robert Robinson

Chris Sanders

Witch Broompools are the worst!

W.E. Hill

Will Pogany

Frank Frazetta

Frank Frazetta

Lynne Naylor

Joseph Christian Leyendecker

William Stout

Bernie Wrightson

Next Week: Under the Umbrella