1964 – pencil drawing I disassembled an 8 transistor radio as a kid due to my curious commonologist’s obsession with the unknown. The insides looked like some sort of outer space alien landscape to my young mind. I wondered if superior alien beings were responsible for its workings. After studying electronic technology as an adult…… Continue reading Radio Guts
Category: Art
A feeling that reaches the soul and engulfs the spirit as a beautiful perception. (Scroll to the bottom to start from the beginning at “Balance”)
Beatles
1975 – Acrylic and ink on acetate This was my first work in this medium (animation cel). I had mistakenly painted George’s pants yellow before painting the Yellow Submarine so I opted to paint the submarine tail red instead of starting over… illustrative proof that two wrongs don’t make a right!
Doodle Bug
1969 – Ink on pencil on paper I liked drawing cars as a kid… this is one of the cuter ones.
Sweet Potato
1976 – Ink on film positive Headin’ for the chuck wagon! This was a drawing for commercial boxes of yams. The film positive was made from my original pen and ink and painted with color markers. (The red and brown color markers ran on the photo paper over the years…) 🫠
Goofy
Pencil on notebook paper A goofy sketch Found this while purging my files.
Mickey Mouse
1981 – Printers Ink on White Corrugated Board Mouse in the House I think I might have loved working for Walt Disney. I grew up on cartoons and Mickey was one of my favorites. He was a good guy. But he didn’t finish last. He was a soft spoken hero. I applied for a job… Continue reading Mickey Mouse
Blue Jets
1970 – Color pencil on color paper I liked drawing airplanes as a kid… this is my ‘older kid’ favorite.
Kitchen Sink
1970 – Color pencil on thin paper
Animal Farmers
1970 – pencil on paper
Circus
1973 – playful pencil sketch using my initials
Genesis
1973 Pencil – Progressive Rock Band
Saucers
1973 Pencil and color marker
Turbo
1978 – Film positive from pen and ink drawing This piece is a photo positive made from my ink drawing on illustration board. Mylar graphic art screens were used for the gray areas.
Ken’s Ride
1979 – Acrylic and ink on acetate The highlights I painted on the windshields reminds me of the inevitable bug collisions. I reckon it’s a good argument for a full face helmet… Motorcycles are great fun but not without risk. They can be very maneuverable but are no match for any automobile that swerves or… Continue reading Ken’s Ride
Fond‘a Honda
1983 – Art Film proof – from pen and ink This was done for fun. I imagined it would make a cool T-shirt.
Angle Wrangle
1982 – 11×14 Lithograph – from pen and ink A fun project! I printed several of these with the intent to sell them but didn’t. I completed the entire graphics production including sketch, pen and ink, rubylith color overlay, grayscale screens, camera ready mechanical, graphic arts camera work and printing on a 1250 Multilith offset… Continue reading Angle Wrangle
Traversity
1980 – Metal Etching/Carving I made two of these road dwelling dragons (left and right) for my 1979 Kawasaki LTD 1000 motorcycle (below). The two holes align with a gas tank mounting bracket. It started as a pen and ink drawing that was etched in magnesium (thanks to my friend Dub) then I carved it… Continue reading Traversity
Flames
April 2020 – Acrylic and ink on acetate This character painting of Covid was another post-retirement refresher project for me. One thing that you might find interesting about painting on transparent acetate is that the cartoon is viewed from the opposite side from where the paint is applied so that the brush strokes aren’t visible. That means the highlights are… Continue reading Flames
Covid
March 2020 – Watercolor on watercolor pad I originally started drawing this dragon in 1971 (see Dragon One). He’s always been full of mischief, but I hadn’t thought about naming him until deadly COVID-19 hit.
Quickbeam Art
1973 sketch – character from Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien July 2026 – drawing of Quickbeamwith Apple Pencil Pro and iPad Air using ProCreate
Nantucket Sleigh Ride
1975 – Acrylic and ink on illustration board Exposition This piece came about shortly after starting my commercial art career. It’s a tribute to the rapid-o-graph pen (used heavily in olden times graphic arts) and includes a reflection of my young man’s brain. The work shares free-hand with drafting tool aided drawing techniques. The composition… Continue reading Nantucket Sleigh Ride
Stages
A brief career outline The six drawings below are selections from stage 1 of my young adult commercial art career life, whereupon I had planned to produce an amateur animated film. I was on a tight budget in 1974 and didn’t have a proper camera… just a bunch of drawings. The project was shelved. In stage 2 of my professional life,… Continue reading Stages
Space Traveler
1978 – Acrylic and ink on acetate with background photographic print This is my rendition of Ed White’s historic 1965 spacewalk. The space traveler was drawn with black ink on one side and painted on the opposite side with acrylic in the fashion of early animation cel production.
Fireworks
These images of “my Dragon” are photographs of the first and third storyboard set of three watercolors that were inspired by Gandalf’s fireworks at Bilbo’s Magnificent Party from The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien. The first painting sets the “fireworks” stage. The second painting is MIA and featured the “earth” being reborn and… Continue reading Fireworks
Log Cabin Church
This 1981 acrylic painting of Log Cabin Church is my personal favorite work. I painted this for my godparents. They were members here. My godmother always said this was my masterpiece. I discovered this beautiful church in 1973. I saw the buildings as reflecting the two testaments of the Christian Bible. I took artistic license… Continue reading Log Cabin Church
Dragon One
1971 – Pen and ink on paper Too scary for toddlers, this is the first pen and ink of my dragon. I found it when cleaning out my files while sheltering in place. I love dragons. They can represent spiritual control of the deep, the Devil himself, or the simple playfulness of an artist’s hand.
Grasp
1974 – Pencil on paper This was an exercise in Dragon drawing. Also see Satan for pen and ink version.
Pluto
Something’s up This drawing predates my ability to recall when I did it. Pluto is actually speaking his first words from his two dimensional flat plane domain. Pluto’s original creators did not see fit to give him an English speaking role. Pluto was oppressed. He was subservient to his master, Mickey Mouse. And to make… Continue reading Pluto
Space is Out There
Thanks to folks such as the good people at APOD we have at our Internet fingertips an impressively large quantity of very high quality artistic and scientific images from the seeable universe. Their Astronomy Picture of the Day featured images are wonders to behold and many would argue enough for our astronomical appetite. But for others the thought of… Continue reading Space is Out There
Hummer-Head
September 1992 – Computer Animation Commodore Amiga 3000, Imagine 3D 2.0 software – This work won honorable mention in a national Computer Animation competition for the Amiga computer. Unfortunately, this digitized video is made from a VHS tape recording. I no longer have the Amiga computer this was built on which would provide a sharper… Continue reading Hummer-Head
Portal Sketch
1971 – Original pencil sketch Comprehension of eternity is fully one giant leap beyond the pale. We don’t know the exact birthday, but we celebrate Jesus’s Birth on December 25. Such a humble beginning. And what a strong mother Mary must have been to travel over one hundred miles in those days from Nazareth to Bethlehem at nine months… Continue reading Portal Sketch
The Net
January 2020 – Internet Circuit Board (partial view) This colorful picture is a raster graphics image of my career final PCB design. It’s a pseudo partial “X-ray” rough representation of a small portion of a cable modem Internet circuit board. The actual production graphics data is rendered in a CAD tool then manufactured from multiple individual layers of copyrighted proprietary vector graphics artwork (not shown here). You might… Continue reading The Net
Earth and Ed
Casting calm to the world This image combines a NASA photograph and a MS Paint drawing (umbilical) with my acrylic painting (spaceman) in an intriguing fun way. I. wonder if you can see the outer space alien pareidolia in the umbilical cable. 👽 Inspiration for a website Art is what you imagine it to be.… Continue reading Earth and Ed
Princess Ariel
September 2020 – Acrylic paint and ink on acetate In the early days there was usually an assembly line team of artists employed to produce each individual cel for a commercial production animated film. First an animator would sketch broad step character positions on paper. Next cel artists would trace the sketches with ink on acetate. The… Continue reading Princess Ariel
101
Acrylic and ink on acetate Dalmatians I’m unsure what year I did this piece but it was during my commercial art career. I created it for my sweet sister-in-law, Mary and her Dalmatian buddy, ‘Dottie’. I worked from a print of a scene from Disney’s 1961 release, 101 Dalmatians. I used the same techniques employed by… Continue reading 101
Balance
1977 – Acrylic and ink on acetate Human art is a reflection from our human senses. Our sense of balance is sourced inside our hearing. Our senses of emotion and self are sourced inside our brain where all is processed. God designed us to hear physically AND emotionally. We “hear” physically through our sense of… Continue reading Balance