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Happy Birthday, St. Louis!
This year is the 250th birthday of St. Louis! Our city was founded in 1764 by Auguste Choteau and Pierre Laclede as a French fur trading post on the west bank of the mighty Mississippi River. St. Louis grew dramatically during the steamboat era and by 1900 we were the...
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Ahab
From time to time I post a sketch from my "Movie Still Sketchbook". This one is Gregory Peck as Ahab in Moby Dick. This was drawn on my MacBook Pro using my Bamboo tablet and Sketchbook Pro. My studio work is on the professional Wacom Intuos tablet using Corel Painter...
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Puzzles, Games, and Rebuses
My work for Christian publishing involves everything from full color children's book illustrations, curriculum, to kid's activity books. These activity books are fun, colorful, appropriately complex for specific ages. I may be assigned puzzles, games, mazes,...
read moreMagazine Art
As a freelance illustrator I enjoy a variety of assignments. While the vast majority of my art is geared toward children's books and products, one of my favorite things to do in particular are spot illustrations for magazines. Something about a colorful piece tucked...
read moreActivity Books
I recently illustrated an activity book for Group Publishing, Kid's Travel Guide to the Beatitudes. This a sample of the kind of vector work (Adobe Illustrator) I do for this kind of project. While most of my work is in color, these activity spots are almost always...
read moreGo 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 things are. Van Gogh has moved to...
read moreStill 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 died. In...
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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 McCullough's Truman. And...
read moreDo 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...
read moreHappy 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 Valentine vibe....
read moreTo Tell a Different Story
To Tell a Different Story is an event honoring Dr. Martin Luther King which will feature award winning author Patricia McKissack and four story illustrators, Richard Bernal, John Dyess, Michael Halbert and Ed Koehler. The show will be up from it's opening reception...
read moreFrederico Barocci
We saw the Frederico Barocci exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum. Federico Barocci (c. 1526, Urbino – 1612, Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. A student of Michaelangelo, Barocci is not well known in the U.S. This is an impressive exhibit with...
read moreHappy New Year
Happy New Year to all! I for one am going into 2013 with considerable optimism about illustration. It's good, it's healthy and it's fun. 2012 was a good year with great projects and I even took time to take a Fall semester illustration class at a community college....
read moreCoby Whitmore, American Illustrator
Coby Whitmore Click the title above and then click on the small Coby Whitmore link to read my blog about this great illustrator.
read moreNew York
We just spent a week in New York City. New York of course is the home of some of the world's greatest museums, and we took in many. The Met, MOMA, and Guggenheim of course, as well as the American Museum of Natural History. These are all beyond compare but the one...
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