Large Carrot . Happy Rabbit

Wanted to draw a really quick Wacom illustration for practice tonight. Here's what I came up with.

V1 Cover Contest.

Volume One is having a cover contest! There are only a few rules, the hardest one being that you have to create your art directly on the newsprint magazine while leaving the V1 tile visible. As far as cover subject matter and mediums, that’s let up to the artist. This illustration was created using acrylic paints, ink and graphite.

Chalking it Up with the Kids.

Erik and I sure been creating a lot of sidewalk chalk drawings this summer! We were asked to be visiting artist at the American Luther Retirement Home last week. Our job was to lead a group of artful daycare kids and help them fill the Retirement Home’s sidewalk full of drawings. Here are a few images from the event.

Roaring Lion

This is the first illustration in a series of images called Project Lion. My friend Alan is super nice and he's letting me try out his Wacom Tablet. Roaring Lion is my first attempt using the digital drawing device but I plan on creating many more Wacom images. I’m having a blast with this thing!

Wisconsin Activity Book

Just got word today that the Wisconsin Activity Book I illustrated will be in house August 31. This is the fourth Activity Book I’ve Illustrated for Adventure Publications and I hear Indiana might be next. Here are a few sketches from the book and the finalized cover.



-Ginseng (My Dad used to grow this root!)


-Bald Eagle mom and chick


-Fishing Lures


-Ice Fishing


-Hayward's Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame Museum


-Cover (Colored by Adventure Publications)

Recycle.

Everyone who knows me knows that I am a big recycler. It really does bug me when people simply choose not to recycle because they think it’s just too much extra work. This is our planet and our responsibility to take care of it right?

At work I’ve been trying to encourage people to take the small step and throw there unused paper products in the recycling instead of the garbage. I put some old envelope boxes to use and converted them into recycling receptacles for everyone’s worktables. Going green seems to be the trend these days so decide to paint all the boxes neon green so you can’t miss them. Guess what? Since the boxes have been put out my fellow coworker have been filling them instead of the trashcans. I bet all the paper Big Dot goes through we are saving one tree at least every day! That is something to be very proud of!

Chalkfest

Erik Christenson and I took part in the Chalkfest weekend event in Eau Claire, WI. This is a rather new occasion in Wilson Park where artist draw large scale calk images on the sidewalk. We teamed up to create an image based on our summer journey to South Dakota. We worked from 9:30 am until about 5:00 pm when the images began to be reviewed by the judges. It was quite a fun day though our legs and knees had a rough time. We even got an honorable mention in the group category.