Here's the last illustration of a book I'm working on called Elephant and the Mouse. The art covers both the left and right page and is the last two pages of the book. Now all I need to do is most of the other illustrations... I wanted to start with the hardest one to get the look down and I hope to get the book done in time (and self published) in time for the Scott County Art Crawl in early Oct.

Time Moving Forward

Here's last weeks submission to Illustration Friday but, I was unable to post it in time so, here it is. The word of the week was 'Forward'.

Island Hopper

Here's another pulp inspired illustration. No big story behind it other I like adventure related illustrations.

Santa and Friends

Here's a nice illustration in a different style showing Santa getting some special help. Again, using Painter.

Twisted Triple Self Portrait

My world outlook was pretty much altered when I started reading Mad in the 70's. And I fell in love with Norman Rockwell's work very early in my life. Even before art school, I had a nice library of Rockwell art books. Not sure the other kids were jealous but, they should have been. Here I combined the two into one of Rockwell's famous pieces: Triple Self Portrait

Colorful Fish

I was in a tropical fish thing for a while and came up with some nice art. Probably easier to illustration them then take care of the real things.

Toucan

I created this in the winter of 2010 when it was 15 below. All I wanted was green and warmth.