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NEW WORK: Grandcamp Adventures – Treasure Maps
Here is another illustration from the Teti’Aroa series featuring an aerial view of five of the Tahitian atoll’s islands. Onetahi is in the foreground. The inspiration for this was a hand tinted engraving.
The illustration was created to be viewed at various degrees of magnification. On the project’s website the overall view, as seen here, will [...]
Wishing all my family, friends and clients a prosperous New Year!
I’ll be posting a generic version of this for sale on my Etsy Store soon.
Cheers, Scott
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These are some illustrations I contributed to Oxford University Press’s Myths and Legends series due out early 2010. My story is called “The Wolf and the Goat”. The illo’s appear intermingled with large lettered text and are aimed at readers at the grades 3 and 4 levels. It’s based on the Aesop’s fable of the [...]
The Missus and I flew down to Portland over the Labor Day weekend for a wee holiday. It was a wonderfully refreshing trip that now has us both energized to complete all ongoing jobs and tackle the upcoming Autumn projects.
The highlight? without hesitation was Powell’s Books. Holy cow, an entire city block, multiple floors of [...]
Sorry for the delay in postings… I’ve been toiling over a hot Cintiq for a few weeks…
Earlier this Summer I finished of a dozen illustrations for a book of Aesop’s fables being published by Oxford University Press. The Book has now gone out for printing. It features several stories, each with illustrations by a different [...]
Pencil on Paper — July 18 to August 8
Opening Reception — Tuesday July 21 6:30 to 8:30, 2009
Here’s another new piece going into the Pencil on Paper show at Elliot Louis Gallery later this month (Jul 18th to Aug 8th). This is from a farmhouse in the Takayama area. Also below is a detail of [...]
This was one of my favorites from the last six months. It was created as DM and posted from Indonesia.
This is a preview of another new piece of mine from the upcoming show Pencil on Paper at the Elliot Louis Gallery.
It is 8″ x 10″ and its titled: “Fox/Inari” and is based on a sculpture at the Fushimi Inari shrine in Kyoto. In fact all of the drawings I’m contributing to this show are [...]
This promo was sent as a New Year’s greeting primarily to advertising agencies wishing everyone a Prosperous New Year.
A few months back I was asked to contribute some illos for this book. Looks like it’s due to hit the shelves in Autumn. The book is titled “Big Book of Contemporary Illustration” compiled and written by a swell fella named Martin Dawber and published by Batsford Books.
My contributions where a few of my Art [...]
This grayscale illustration was created in response to some recent trends. Times being what they are there’s bound to be a resurgence in publishing. In fact, there’s no reason why b/w illustrations can’t provide as rich an experience for the reader as colour. I’ve been experimenting with different digital techniques to find ways of creating [...]
This is the first in a series of illustrations relating to a fox character. It started as a personal work and later graced the cover of Crow Toes Quarterly, a Children’s Literature Magazine in Spring 2008. www.crowtoesquarterly.com
What’s the story? Well there is no story yet, but it is unfolding. Feel free to tell me [...]