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Society of Illustrators Air Force Art Program

I love working in a sketchbook. Unfortunately, since moving to Boston three years ago, my sketchbook work has fallen by the way-side. Living in New York, it was easier to do reportage drawings in the...

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New Painting for Tor

I really enjoyed and love the piece I did earlier in the year for Irene Gallo at Tor - in fact, it is probably one of my favorites this year. A few weeks ago, Irene emailed me to create a new piece...

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Sketchbook #23

It's been a long while since I've posted anything from my sketchbooks. Usually, I'll post stuff from my work sketchbook along with the finsihed art. These are from my 'play' sketchbooks where I mess...

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Yoga Journal - Lead With Your Heart

Love makes the world go 'round. Love is all you need. In time for February's Valentine's Day and the season of love, is the new issue of Yoga Journal in which I was fortunate enough to get a call to...

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Toronto Blue Jays Care Foundation

I was invited by Dave Murray, illustrator and owner of the Garrison Creek Bat Company to create a custom bat for an upcoming celebrity charity event for the Toronto Blue Jays. Each bat is custom made...

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Dead Snake Handlers - and Sex

Out of the entire story, there was this one scene in the book where the main character was having a sort of 'wet dream' about a mysterious snake handler that was helping her out on her property while...

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To Kill A Wolf - Sierra Magazine

I was fortunate enough to create art for a sad, yet introspective story for Sierra Magazine. The project became sort of a 'zen'-like exercise in painting using varying shades of reds to convey a sort...

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Zombie - Tor

Irene called me to do this job back in February and its finally being released. It was a tough one - I was surprised that Irene read a story about zombies and thought 'Yeah - I'll use Scott.' I took...

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Alexander McQueen

My dreams are bigger than I have time for sometimes. As a personal project, I was planning on doing a few portraits of fashion designers this summer. I actually said something like '10'. With the...

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$36,954

I received this letter a few weeks ago. Having a minor heart event and scraping myself up off the pavement after blacking out, I tried to wrap my head around what went wrong. I owe the IRS $36K? Holy...

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Lecture at WCSU

Today, I will be giving a lecture to students at Western Connecticut State University and then doing portfolio reviews with the Master's students. The lecture portion is open to the public Poster...

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Suicides

I am a little behind in posting work so this post is coming later than I originally wanted but it is nevertheless, still important, especially now with certain military services cut because of a trite...

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Vancouver Opera

With Tosca opening this past weekend, I am honored and privileged to present, after nearly a year under wraps, my paintings for the Vancouver Opera. The operas are Tosca, Albert Herring, Don Giovanni...

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I Turned 20 This Week

My first official illustration job after college was in November of 1993. I took the summer off after college to work some part time jobs and create work for myself. I remember reasoning that after 13...

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Happy Holidays!

To all my Drawger buddies and friends out there in the world, have a wonderful, safe and very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

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Don Giovanni

Halfway through the season, next up for the Vancouver Opera is Don Giovanni! A quick update.... In my previous post, I put up a short TV spot for Tosca made by Giant Ant in Vancouver to promote the...

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Teacherly Things

Its the end of the semester and tonight is Portfolio Night at MassArt! I felt like writing about some teacherly things that I do and some experiences I've had over the last 4-5 months. I don't often...

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Skulls of Ultimate Death

This week I released a personal project called Skulls of Ultimate Death. Over the last few months, I've been spending more time back in the sketchbooks. I seemed to have lost the momentum I had going...

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Gill Sans - St. Bride UK

This past March, while in London, I visited a wonderful place called St. Bride Library + Foundation. My colleague Elizabeth Resnick and myself brought students to London and Dublin for a course trip....

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7 Commentaries | 5 Paintings - Tor

I was asked a few months ago by Irene Gallo for Tor.com to have a go at a story called Seven Commentaries. It was tough to wrap my head around it in the beginning because it seemed to be written in a...

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