
Over spring break, we took a trip out to Arizona to check up on my Dad and do a little disc golfin’. We brought the wife’s laptop and my wacom tablet and I did a few projects in the early mornings and late evenings (my clock never quite got reset from Michigan time, and I was waking regularly with the sun at 6AM). The illustration above was one I did for Barrons this week. Below is an illustration for the Classroom Edition of the Wall Street Journal that I did prelim sketches for before we left last week, then revised in Arizona and completed the finish over the weekend.


The biggest project of the week, was the cover illustration above for the American Bar Association. I was a bit nervous tackling this one while ‘away from the office’, as this was a ‘bigger’ image, and the screen size on my wife’s laptop is a bit smaller than I’m used to. I was also a bit leery of working in color on an unfamiliar machine, but everything seems to be alright (maybe a little darker in tone than usual).
Also, during the week, I worked a bit on an interesting side project. I’d been asked to design a ‘commemorative golf disc’ for a local park restoration project. I did the sketch in Arizona, and will probably be working on the finish over the next week or so. Will be exciting to see how this turns out. (will post details later as this develops). In other news; The author of ‘Young Dick Cheney’ put together a little promo video that he uploaded on YouTube which features many of the illustrations from the book (can be viewed here), and I was informed of a promo link to the game that I illustrated a couple months ago – where you can view pictures of the game board and box mock-up (link here)
A bit of bad news when we returned home last night. We found our little grey cat Ripley had died sometime in the past two days. Ripley was a favorite subject of mine whenever I had to include a ‘cat’ in the picture over the past ten years. (below she can be seen on a CD cover I illustrated several years ago) – She was a good companion and the last of my son’s ‘childhood pets’ and she will be missed.
