Saginawesome 01 - What's in a name?

The name Saginaw is believed to mean "where the Sauk were" in the Ojibwe (American Indian) language. So now applied to our new term, it is "Where the Sauk were awesome".

Saginawesome

I am beginning a mini-series taken from aspects of my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan. I know the imagery above isn't necessarily a groundbreaking spin on Saginaw, but when something as powerful as violent crime envelopes a city for so long it is hard to get away from it. I promise to include some more positive and/or funny subject matter as the series progresses.

REWORKED!

For those of you who used to subscribe to Neomu and happened to see the little Play-Doh piece I did for Neomu #7 back in 2003 and always wished that I had painted it instead.....this is for you!

Tribute Complete

Rememember: This is not the greatest painting in the world, this is just the tribute.

The Tribute

Finally, I have posted something unfinished. See if you can follow this story (it's kind of like that Tenacious D song):

This is a sketch of a tribute painting to the greatest painting I have ever worked on (which is M.I.A.). The original work was a large-scale collaboration created for S.P.P.'s Hidden Paradise show/dance event in Saginaw a few years ago. The title: "Two Celebrities Puking into each other's Mouths". It was a stark stroke of perfection...

I hope to work on this and complete it in between baby feeding sessions.

Long Drive Champion

Here is a portrait of a European long drive champion. He looks confident about his golf abilities, whoever he is. As always, click on the picture for INSANE DETAIL.

Animals Reclaim Detroit

Apparently, the word on the street is that no one lives in Detroit anymore. For the record, that is false. But I read an article online that explored the recent trend of animals and foliage retaking the worn-down city. This painting is loosely based on that article and was as part of a series for Motor Detroit Magazine, a new publication designed my my friend Mike Leser. Check out the website here.

Matt Anderson or someone else much more successful.

I'm not really sure where this one came from. I guess I was watching too many Tigers games back in the spring and they seeped into my subconscious. Make sure to click on the image for a large detail. Some of the color and texture change is pretty subtle.

Nonsense creatures are typically the best type of creatures.

This is one of two artworks I did for NeoMu 7 - a strange little publication - back in 2004. I don't have a digital version of the other one anymore but it was made of Playdough and later scanned in against the glass.

A Stray

This painting is a little different than what normally comes from me, but I am happy with how it turned out. I must have finished this sometime around May. Becky hates birds, so I had to hide this one from her. 

...catching up continued.

Here we have two paintings I worked on earlier in the spring. Both are based on fuzzy 8mm home video stills from 1982. The upper painting is of my father and the lower painting of my mother.

I have some catching up to do...

Well, it has been a year, so I figure I should go ahead and post some more art. It's not like I haven't been painting or anything. I will start with a painting that is years old, but I just recently finished it. (More to come in the next couple of days.)

Summer Art 08

Newest work - this time looking at houses in the state where I'm from.

The Countdown (11 to 1)

A series of eleven small iron-on transfer collages shown at Red Ink Studios in Flint. Designs were completed on sweatshirts, pants, and tablecloths - which were stretched and stapled over square pieces of wood. They were then hung on a painted wall in the rocket configuration below.

None of the photos I took turned out, but this pretty much gets the point across. As always, clicking on the thumbnail will bring up a larger version so you can examine the details. Each square was priced @$20, so they all SOLD OUT!!

Tokion Magazine

My first internationally published piece. Done for Tokion Magazine, it ran with an article about the author Aleksander Hemon. I will always wonder what he thought about this portrait. I hope he liked camping and water-planes. Maybe I should have read something he wrote.

Spirit! Cover Art

front cover:


back cover:


Last summer I made an album cover.
You can vist the band here.
They make good music. 

James K. Polk

1872:


1972:


2072:


In my mind, James K. Polk (our eleventh president) liked two things:
1. Traveleing through time.
2. The circus.
I tried to break it down by century for you.

Forest Forever Poster Series

Set of four limited edition posters from 2003. The only remaining set is at my father's house in Beaverton, MI.
If interested, you should look him up. He's always looking to make a buck.

Artwork 2002-2003

"If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing... you have a college degree." ~ Unknown
(well, that and a bunch of jpegs from your illustration classes)

Welcome

Hello, and thanks for visiting. Here I will be posting mostly artwork, among other random things. You can use the blog archive on the right to browse through the postings. Feel free to comment, share, redirect, etc. I used to have a website called Good Morning-Good Evening, but websites like that cost money and are difficult to update regularly.
So, GoodBYE (for now).