If you’re interested in hearing some live music, come check out the jazz quartet I play with, the New Groove Dictionary, at the 8th Street Taproom in Lawrence, KS on Sunday night, November 16th at 10:00 p.m. It should be a lot of fun and a good way to kick start your week!

Here’s my poster for the event:

What do you do when someone steals your political yard sign? Get creative.

Don’t forget to vote this upcoming Tuesday!

This is a collage piece that I recently came up with as a study for a different project. I ended up not using it for the project itself, but I had so much fun doing it, that I’d really like to try and do some more in this style, so stay tuned! A majority of the photographs were taken from the Library of Congress’ public domain archive on Flickr. That place is a treasure chest of interesting images from our nation’s past!

Good ol’ pen and ink wash!

When I was in school, I took several life drawing courses. I really became interested in doing blind contour drawings and I spent a good semester working in pen and ink wash with a little charcoal thrown in from time to time. These are a few of my favorites:

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