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The Visioneer • Part of a long running story in Clubhouse Magazine, Johnny Grav and the Visioneer created by Mike Nappa • Digital color over watercolor
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Artwork for T-shirt line
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Book cover illustration • Gouache and colored pencil on Canson Paper
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Illustration for Bible Visuals International
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I liked the idea of these guys playing classical instruments • Textbook Illustration
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Unpublished illustration for a Random House book • My only foray into the TMNT line • It was great doing it in a comic book style
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On-screen logo designed by the gifted Norman Blore of Technigraphic • He did all the hard parts and I added color and painted in the landscape • Ink, Watercolor and Gouache
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Cover for Coloring/Activity Book • This was done months before the film’s release and LucasArts sent me a lot of reference but oddly enough I found better reference on fan sites
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Magazine illustration for Clubhouse Magazine
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Modelsheet illustration for Space Ghost: Coast to Coast • I was fairly intimidated to mimic one of my art heroes, Alex Toth • Since doing these, I’ve been amazed as to where they’ve shown up
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Interior illustration from Blast Off • Aliens designed by my talented brother, Dana • We rendered some of the type in this book as part of the art, not typical and, as it turned out, challenging
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Interior illustration • Interesting note, 4 of the 5 models in this illustration are Marines, sure makes for a more authentic set of soldiers
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Illustration for 4-year-old’s Bible Instructional Aides
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Cover illustration for The Lord My Shepherd • I enjoyed adding a lot of intense colors to this setting
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Interior illustration • I find these Black & White pencil drawings very gratifying
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Illustration for Victory, another Bible Visuals International product • Amazing true story of life in a WWII Japanese prisoner of war camp in China
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My take on the moment where Samuel hears God’s voice from I Samuel 3
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Illustration from a Science Textbook
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Spot illustration for a textbook
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A version of the story of the Samaritan Women or the Woman at the Well from John 4
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Another illustration from the Johnny Grav and the Visioneer series • This was creator Mike Nappa’s favorite
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I had always liked Robert Lansing as an actor and was tickled to do his portrait as spokesman for a regional energy company
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This was a test piece in order to do The Prince of Egypt license • My brother did the characters and I painted the background
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For this book illustration it was nice to just concentrate on the hands
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I was able to paint this like a still life with an old shirt stuffed with grass and a pencil taped to my drawing board for a couple of days
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A simple, almost flat rendering for an architectural firm
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An unpublished test piece in order to do the Pocohontas license for Disney
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This painting is in a old pulp magazine style to illustrate a kind of future-retro look
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This is a watercolor background on which I would add digital characters for Dragon Tales
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Cover for a Noah’s Ark themed activity book
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Chemistry textbook illustration
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Book illustration of Nebuchadnezzar suffering with Boanthropy
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Another Johnny Grav image • My son’s best friend posed for this one
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Army mascot • A good friend, who is really into this stuff, posed for me in full gear
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Illustration of the Good Samaritan parable
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My brother and I tag teamed on a book for Disney Press, Goofy Visits Pluto • Dana did the characters and I painted the backgrounds
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Tradebook illustration
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From the book Blast Off • My brother, Dana, designed the mice and machines and I did the painting
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End papers for a line of Patch the Pirate story books
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Logo concept for High School team in Asheville, NC
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The view from our front porch as we were taking some time off
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My son modeled for Johnny Grav himself in this illustration from the Johnny Grav and the Visioneer series for Clubhouse magazine • He is supposed to be falling over Denver, so that’s Denver stadium reflected in his visor
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The Garden of Gethsemane
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Another piece from Bible Visual International’s Victory
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Architectural rendering for brochure
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Book cover for Lights in a Dark Place by Rebecca Davis
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Really enjoyed researching this piece • There is so much description in the Old Testament about these clothes, utensils and furniture and, yet, in the details we have to make educated guesses
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Book cover for Eileen Berry’s Francis Ridley Havergal biography
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A Clues Brothers (Hardy Boys) book cover
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Possibly my favorite of my Clues Brothers (Hardy Boys) book covers • I enjoyed the process on this immensely and the simple composition makes the image strong
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Shot the reference in my friend’s kitchen • Brave friend
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The first cover I did for the Clues Brothers (Hardy Boys) • The background was based on a neighborhood one block away from the studio • I really thought those gate posts were cool
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Concept painting for Ad Campaign, © Geico – client, Gold Associates – Agency.
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