I drew a design called Love your Shadow. It refers to Carl Jung’s idea of the Shadow, and some guided meditations with "Jungian" imagary from the book The Tools by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels. The design is mainly intended for t-shirts, and initially required being printed on a mid value t-shirt; not too dark and not too light. T-shirt too light…. T-shirt too dark…. T-shirt Just right! As I developed the design, I developed some other versions of it that would work on shirts of colors other than mid values. First this one, which, because the white figure is outlined, can be printed on wh ..read more

I had intended to have a transparent background on the current painting I am working on, but I got it too dark, and once that happens with a transparent background the only option to lighten it is to paint over it with opaque paint. Below you can see the painting with the transparent background and the beginning stages of the opaque background I painted over it. painting with transparent background I had painted the transparency around the sides of my gallery wrap canvas. I’m leaving the sides transparent because I like how it looks. You can see if values were divided, with black being 0, an ..read more

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Unification is the word I've been using in my art journal for the past several years to describe my process of making my painting style more consistent.  I have been painting in more or less 2 different styles; one simple and stylized like this: The friendly Dragon, Acrylic on Panel, 11 x 14 inches ..and one more realistic, like this: Cat and Mouse, Acrylic on Panel, 25 x 45 inches I am working toward creating all of my paintings in one style instead, and that style will be more or less in between these two styles. To “unify” my style in other words. Hence the word unification.  Wh ..read more

I have been framing my paintings gallery wrap style, or not framing them that is, since gallery wrapped paintings don't actually have a frames, but rather just use a wide edge of the side of the painting instead of a frame. As my style is becoming simpler, I am liking the contemporary look of gallery wraps for my paintings more. The name gallery wrap comes from paintings on canvas that is wrapped around especially wide, 1 and a half to two inch, stretcher bars. Technically, my paintings are on panels mounted on a wood frame  not wrapped canvas, but this type of framing is still ..read more

Salt Lake Magazine did a cover article on my art in their 25th anniversary issue which came out this month. I like both the writing and the design of the article. You can see and read the article here ..read more

A collector recently bought my painting Cow Car, which was 9 inches by 12 inches. He then commissioned me to paint a larger version of it. Much larger -  6 feet by 8 feet! That is the largest painting I have ever done (except for a mural I did long ago with house paint). I had been interested in doing a large version of one of my "Animalia" paintings as I call them; paintings with walking talking animals; to see what they would look like large, so I enjoyed the project. For fun I created a time lapse video of most of the 123 hour painting process, condensing it into just un ..read more