I was lucky enough to be selected for a residency at the Banff Centre for the Creative Arts. I've never been up to that region. In fact this is the furthest north that I have been on our continent. It gets cold and rocky up there and from what I saw, really beautiful. I got my snow experience for sure. Living in southwest Georgia at 300 feet above sea level primed me to be jazzed by the soft, powdery, pancake-sized-snowflake snow that settled on everything with perfect ti

Whales are a recurrent theme in the new book I'm working on. Somewhere around the midpoint of drawing this book, I re-read "Moby Dick"...

Its been about a year since I trekked the Langtang Valley in Nepal with my friends Bill and Bob. At our easternmost point in the valley...

This is a painting I recently completed. Right now it is hanging up in the CSU faculty show. I thought I would do a little post about...

I completed this painting during my "year in absentia." It actually started off as something I worked on in my Painting 1 class while my...

Its been a little over a year since I have published a blog post, and I think the same is true for social media posts. Fall 2023 was my...

This week I was very fortunate to have a studio visit with this well-known art critic. Jerry Salz visited our university as this year's...

Actually, the river has been back on for about a month now according to my in-house fishing guru. It's all about the shad, and "on"...

Last week I was able to participate in a book fair at ATHICA (Athens Institute of Contemporary Art). This was my first book fair in...

I am very happy to be included in this painting exhibition which is currently staged at the Lyndon House in Athens, Georgia. Many thanks...

Paint is fun stuff to play with, and I have recently had some time to do just that. For much of the time my paintings involve fairly...

Closed the books on another Spring semester. As usual I have a bunch of demonstration drawings lying around. Most of them don't really...

Ok, so its been awhile... finally got a haircut after about two years of COVID. Somehow during that time some paintings got done and I...

Here's a pic of my brother next to an installation of my drawings in the CSU Faculty Exhibition titled "In Sync." Mia Darcia DeMaar...

Recently my brother Ephraim, his girlfriend Julie and I drove up to LaGrange, Georgia to check out the Lumpkin & Israel exhibition at the...

Got through a party scene in the book-in-progress. This section took me a while. I wanted to capture the "party survey." This is a...

Last March I delivered a talk at the CSU Library about the new graphic novel. I had a great introduction from Dan Rose- good friend,...

I was stung a couple of weeks ago...

More goofy watercolor sketches- I spotted this little critter rooting around in Florida this summer, just tightened up the sketch this...