I created a body of work in “paper sculpture” in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the time, I had not seen any other work by other artists in this medium. Since then, many fine artists have taken this medium to great heights. The problem with this work is that it has to be mounted or framed to protect the fragile paper. I took it upon myself to learn how to make custom acrylic boxes to hold each sculpture. This expense was too much in the long run, and I had to stop making the sculptures. You can see […]

In my career as an illustrator, I turned to scratchboard as a dramatic way of depicting ideas. All of my scratchboard pieces were published, usually as the main illustration and often as supplementary spot illustrations. “Garden Tools,” shown here, probably accompanied a newspaper Spring or Summer gardening article. This is one of my best in terms of quality. Good drawing, great lighting, interesting textures, and strong compositional lines convey the essence of the serious gardener and, in this case, her tools. It almost makes you want to be a gardener. More examples of my scratchboard work can be found here.

My early days as an artist without means meant I would find ways to do art without much expense. After kindergarten, no one used crayons to create art. As a young man of 20, out of necessity, I created a large portfolio of crayon drawings. My method was to layer the crayon, one color over another. Using a tool such as a stylus or even a screwdriver, I would carve the upper layers away to create the final piece. When I finished, I placed the drawing in a hot oven for a moment to set the crayon onto the paper […]