This is For You

To all of my friends in faraway places (and you all know who you are) :
I love you, I miss you, I'm thinking of you, and I wish you were here!

Happy March

I decided it was high time for a little bit of monster painting! Besides, March was made for monsters. Did you know?



I have a habit of naming almost every creature I draw or paint or sew. This sea monster is named Cyril and he has found a new toy. He reminds me a bit of my One a Day Sketchbook from ever so long ago.

Moving Right Along

Good Morning!

I'm up way early with some more sketchbookin's! Like I said, it never ends.

More mimes, with so many things to say:


A little lady playing ukulele for a school of snapper:


And some musical frogs and friends:


(If you want more information on these, or just about any of the images posted on my blog, you can just click on them and it'll take you to the flickr page, where I've written a few little blurbs.)

I'm going to make an effort to post more often, instead of throwing a ton of things up at once and then disappearing for weeks and weeks. Hey, there will even be some new things and (a few old ones) other than sketchbook pages in the posts to come.

I've also updated my website with a few things that you've already seen on this blog. I've given the website a tiny redesign, so while it looks almost exactly the same, it's got a bit of a cleaner look now, which makes me happy.

Anyway, I think it's time to kick things up a bit, right? Here we go!

Neverending Sketchbooking

Holy smokes, I was featured on Drawn! Many thanks! To show my appreciation, let me share with you a few of my most recent sketchbook pages.













As always, in my sketchbook, I don't give myself any rules when it comes to style and media. Mostly, it's all experiments and play.

Oh! And thank you, thank you very muchly for your comments, I really appreciate them!

Camp Cigma: Magician's Camp

I recently had the great pleasure of designing the new website for Camp Cigma, a fantastic magician's day camp in Sarasota, FL. Today is launch day, and the new site is online!

The owners / creators of the camp—Elia Chesnoff (aka Ilan), Josh Corn, & Lydia Corn—are all kind and amazing people and very good friends of mine. Naturally, I was excited to work with Camp Cigma, both as a camp counselor and as a web designer this summer.

For the Camp Cigma website, I not only designed and created the website, but I also got to do a fun background illustration, filled with camp-related imagery and inside jokes. Here's a screen shot of the site, with the full background illustration:



And here is a close up of the left and right halves of the background illustration, side by side:



And, in case you are curious, here are the original inked images, before digital editing:



Anyone in the Sarasota area during the summer should definitely look into sending their children there. Check it out. It's an amazing experience, and I was glad to be a part of it!
And if you are ever looking for a magician/illusionist for any sort of event, anywhere, I can recommend no one better than my talented friend, Ilan, whose website update, incidentally, is my next web project.

For news and updates about Camp Cigma, be sure to join their Newsletter mailing list!