Personal work and commissions.
Acrylic, pencil, pastel, digital. Flower and light study. 12” x 18”
Acrylic, oil, airbrush, pencil painting of red Jaguar. Created as an example of machines for my illustration portfolio. 20” x 30”
Acrylic, oil, airbrush, pencil painting of Corvette. Private commission. 20” x 30”
Pastel. 30” x 30” NFS
Pencil, 16” x 20” Study
Pencil, 18” x 24” - Private commission.
Pencil, 30” x 20” - R.I.T. Permanent collection.
Wolf pencil on large sheet of photography backdrop paper. 5’ x 6’8” - NFS
Acrylic, oil, pencil, pastel, digital. Flower study. 12” x 16”
Colored Pencil, 18” x 34” - NFS
Colored pencil. From a series of people and machines. 20” x30”
Acrylic, pencil, airbrush. Barter exchange. 30” x 40”
Colored pencil. Commission that was so lovely to do. Happy days. 20” x 30”
Pencil. Done from a photo I took on the way to work at the shore. Sort of a homage to Charles Sheeler. I admired his work as a student. One of my first art sales. 18” x 24”
Pencil. Done from a photo I took at the National Warplane Museum at Geneseo, NY. This aircraft was sold and modified with a chin turret. 12” x 16”
Pencil, digital. Done from a photo I took when this plane was at the National Warplane Museum at Geneseo, NY. Sold after a crash. 12” x 16”
Pencil, digital. Done from my photo when this aircraft was based at the National Warplane Museum, Geneseo, NY. 12” x 16”
Acrylic, oil, pencil, airbrush, digital. Commissioned by a friend whose father was a mechanic for P-51 fighter planes during WWII. 24” x 24”
Acrylic, oil, pencil, digital. Part of a commissioned retirement gift. 20” x 30”
Acrylic, Colored Pencil, Digital, 24” x 60” - I.U.P. Permanent collection.
2 Tours, awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1968, presented by General Abrams. Many other medals, and honors before and after leaving active service in 1992. It was a career highlight, and special memory to meet Barry Gasdek, and a true honor to portray his lifestory, as part of a permanent display at ROTC Pierce Hall, I.U.P.
40” x 60” pencil and digital
My spec designs.
I wanted to revisit an idea I had for a USS Constitution coin. Eliminating the sails and bringing some of the rigging close, but with a lot of emphasis on the dynamic ocean surface and the force of Old Ironsides moving forward. Spec, sample design.
Pencil, digital. An exercise in showing depth map drawing vs traditional rendering. 19” x 8”
Pencil, digital. Drawing for the portfolio of a proposed FLOTUS coin. 8” x 8”
Idea for a limited edition Gold coin with tinted color.
My spec design for a gold and silver FLOTUS medal.
Depicting the design as a gold coin.
I had to create a design for this man after reading about his life. Someone should mint a coin or create a major movie about him. Nice video from the History guy here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84yGPsehrkc
My proposed coin/medal design for US Marshall Bass Reeves. Interesting figure in the history of the western USA after the Civil War.
Illustrations. Mostly acrylic, gouache, pencil. Some oil. 30” x 40” or smaller.
Acrylic, pencil, airbrush. Illustration done for Rolling Stone review of Warren Zevon’s album, Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School. Fun to do and honored to have it purchased by his manager as a birthday gift. 20” x 20”
Gouache, Acrylic, pencil. Cover illustration for Einstein’s 100th birthday. 24 hour turnaround, including sketch approval and delivery to NYC. 20” x 20”
Pencil. Cover page for Good Housekeeping condensed novel. Models posed in my studio, background is the Lower Falls of the Genesee River in Rochester, NY. 20” x 16”
Pencil. Center-spread for condensed novel in Good Housekeeping magazine. Posed the couple in their yard and created the tropical background and boat. 15” x 30”
Pencil, Gouache, Acrylic. Editorial art for a story in a magazine. 20” x 20”
Pencil. Portfolio drawing. 12” x 18”
Pencil. Portfolio sample. 20” x 16”
Acrylic, pencil, airbrush. TV Guide ad for NBC. 40” x 30”
Gouache, acrylic, pencil, digital. Lifestory portrait of Christian Von Koenigsegg. 18” x 24”
Gouache, acrylic, digital. Part of a car show poster. 6” x 18”
Pencil, Gouache, Digital. Part of a car show poster. 8” x 20”
Watercolor, pencil, digital. Part of car show poster. 8” x 12”
Pencil, Watercolor, Digital. Sketch and finish of part of a car show poster. 12” x 18”
Acrylic, pencil, airbrush. This should be with the paperback cover section, but I like it as a painting. Reference shot in my dining room in December. 30” x 30”
After photographing common scenes, I digitally manipulated the inherent design elements. These changes create an abstract set of images that aren’t photos in the traditional sense. I’m using Photoshops filters, effects and color shifts to create a new image.
I don’t think I considered myself an illustrator who specialized in mystery paperbacks, but it worked out that way. The prime reason I did this section is because I got a Rolling Stone job, which is at the top of the illustration section. The art director said they called me because I did mystery novels so well. Shocked for several reasons, but that is how the business goes sometimes. R.S. was reviewing Warren Zevon’s album and they wanted a mystery style illustration for the review section.
PS I had another Rolling Stone experience that was so frantic I didn’t even have time to photograph the art… which was not used. Two years earlier.
