Pegasid One

Fire pit charcoal on card stock. No reference but imagination and memory.

Werewolf Moon

Charcoal pencil on watercolor paper, fixed with Krylon clear coat. This werewolf warlock is havin’ all kindsa fun casting some kinda spell, like magickal creatures of the imagination are wont to do.

Yeah, I look like a fukkin’ bum too, growin’ a beard.

Nephrite Jade Bat-Butterfly Hybrid Fantasy Pendant

Dark green nephrite jade, known as Imperial Jade before the importation of Burmese jadeite began. Carved with diamond-studded rotary tools underwater. Dropped, shattered into 2 pieces, repaired with Elmer’s Glue, never get wet.

Nephrite jade is thought to benefit the kidneys, and was considered the stone of wealth and great good fortune. I like it, even though it is damaged, like me.

Butterfly and Cloudy

Pencil on drawing paper imaginary butterfly and an outline done from life of my dead cat Cloudy, who appeared yowling in pain one day cowering from me and every living thing with a perfectly square patch of skin cut from her right cheek, which I reported to the police when they came to drag me away for being insane, who told me it musta been a raccoon.

Bring on the Dancing Horses

You don’t have to guess what song by Echo and the Bunnymen I had on loop while I was conjuring this image from the nothingness inside my skull.

The Hunted

An archer set to take down an unwary doe. But wait, who’s that hiding in the bushes with a thirty-ought six? An acrylic on panelling landscape from 1986 or so. Inspired by a novel written by one of my creative writing instructors from the University of Michigan, (which was probably never published) about a man who hunts deer hunters.

Sabretooth Trainer

An acrylic on plywood work depicting an unlikely handler of an extinct green sabrecat in a forest clearing under a chaotic abstract night sky. Another lost work from the early 1980s.

Walking Home

This is a quick pencil drawing I did this afternoon from imagination. I started with the horizon line, and then the mother’s hair, and it just flowed naturally. The drawing is on card stock, and was done with a number “B” drawing graphite pencil. This is my art practice for today, and my therapy.

Surf Stallion

Surf Stallion is carved from black walnut, Juglans nigra, that came from a tree that grew up the road from my home. The tree was felled around 1978, and the piece was carved in 1986. I began by roughing out a log with gouges and mallet, then used rotary tools to carve and finish the horse to final form. It is finished in nitrocellulose Deft, and sits on the rough base of the log from which it was sculpted.