A couple of times a year I'm hired by local TV station KSTP-5 to do courtroom sketches for trials that are deemed "big news" to Minnesotans, or on rare occasions, even nationally. Today was the start of a hit-and-run homicide trial with ties to a local celebrity. The defendant, Amy Senser, is the wife of Joe Senser, a former Minnesota Viking...
Since I'm doing a book sale to thin out my studio shelves and make room for new stuff, I thought it would also be a good time to part with my "Emperor's New Groove" maquette-and-drawing combo. I originally purchased this pair of Disney goodies at a fundraising auction. The first item is a limited edition animation maquette of Kuzko from "The...
That's right. I'm having another book sale. I've got a pretty large collection of art books in my studio library. Too many in fact. I bought a stack of books last summer at Comic-Con and they've been piled neatly on my studio floor all these months because there's just no room for them on the shelves. So it's time to prune...
To wind down after a busy day of work I started sketching one of my favorite TV characters, Colonel Potter from M*A*S*H. I liked how the sketch was turning out so I started adding in some grayscale washes. Before I knew it I was painting up a detailed value study. Although I still prefer to sketch cartoon characters and children's...
[caption id="attachment_3939" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Tray design copyright © DecoPac, Inc. Avengers copyright © Marvel. All rights reserved."][/caption] One of my regular clients is a toy company called DecoPac. Among other things they design many of the fancy birthday cakes you see in grocery store bakeries. They also create various toys and novelties to put on top of the cakes, often tying...
Lately I've been experimenting with a new self-promotion idea based on advice from two people: my friend and fellow artist Tim Hodge, and Marcia Hoeck, the consultant I hired last year. I bought some blank greeting cards at the art store and sometimes instead of sketching in my sketchbook I'll doodle something on one of the cards. If it turns...
