The semester in demos

A selection of one hour oil painting demos from this past Fall semester at the University of the Arts.

Various supports (paper, canvas...),
various sizes,
various levels of success...

A few more words from Ellsworth Poltroon Pilgarlic III

A few words from Ellsworth Poltroon Pilgarlic III

What do Pete Mitchell, Bryan Ballinger, Doug Bell, Adam Gustavson, Roger Cruz, Karen Jones Lee, Jeremy Vanhoozer, Josh Addessi, Janee Trasler, Paul Conrad, Chuck Vollmer, Cole Phillips, Wout Schildermans, Lilian Carmine, Sarah Bodnar, Micah Lanier and Andi Butler all have in common?

I'm glad you asked. Why, they're all featured in the comic anthology Dead Anyway, a charming and virtually bottomless assortment of zombie stories.

And it's available for pre-order HERE.

Cute zombies! Fairy zombies! Carny zombies! Child zombies! Culinary reality show zombies! Zombie stories of love, loss, redemption and even the occasional western.

And, of course, existentialist zombies. Here's page one of my contribution the pantheon.

 13 x 19 inches. Pencil and gouache on paper, 2012.

Hey! It's a mini interview with life sized me.

Care of the fabulous Molly Idle.  Wherein I expound on questions about the creative process, style, and the five words that describe me best.

Read the whole shebang here. The word here, that is. Just in case you thought it was here on this blog somewhere, which it's not. It's here.

To lure you in, here's a new image from a new title spoken about therein. And when the book comes out, there'll be 34 more where that came from...

 

From Rock and Roll Highway: The Robbie Robertson Story, by Sebastian Robertson. 

Christy Ottaviano Books, 2014.

I love the smell of a new review in the morning.

The folks over at kid-lit.com  have issued an attentive and rather sparkling review of my latest book, Lost and Found, written by two-time Grammy winner Bill Harley. The review can be found in its entirety here...

...with a lively interview with Mr. Harley accompanying it here...

In the mean time, here's another lovingly crafted image from this newly released title.

Go get 'em, Tiger.

My 20th high school class reunion is this weekend. I've been asked in the most flattering way possible to create something for the event's dinnertime raffle, which I assumed meant a drawing or painting and not crocheted potholder. I'm hoping this is the case, as I've never crocheted before.

So after some internal mulling over pictorial options, I settled on this.

He's my high school mascot.

Last time I saw him, he was, like, big and awesome and strong and fast. Always snarling, or haughtily prancing about. He had a closet full of sports jerseys, as far as I could figure.

But it's been 20 years. I'm sure he's still roaring and prowling on the inside.

 

oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches