Go Van Gogh

Hi again. I’m just about to page 600, which will leave a bit less than 300 to go. I’m reading slowly as I’ve got a bad habit of reading several books at a time. I’m trying to correct that nonsense and limit myself to two. Here’s where...

Still Van Gogh

I’m moving along through the Van Gogh biography. He has left Paris and is now in Arles. If you know Van Gogh, you know that means he is nearing the end. I’m now in 1888 and Van Gogh died in 1890. More about that later, as there is some dispute as to how he...

Van Gogh

My daughter gave me the new Van Gogh biography for Christmas. Van Gogh, The Life is written by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. Hailed as “Magisterial” by the New York Times’ Michiko Kakutani, it is as heavy a bio as any I’ve read since...

Do Feed the Animals

For a recent promotional series I invested in livestock. As my work is largely for the juvenile educational market, I created a series of fun animals for my next batch of postcards. For this campaign I opted for minimal vector drawing with simple, primary and...

Happy Valentine’s Day

Now we are only a few days from Valentine’s Day and this image is more appropriate. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. This illustration is just for fun and isn’t intended to be mystical or new-agey or anything other than a creative way of capturing the...