House Mouse Part IV
House Mouse is back on the agenda! My apprentice Matthew Tomczack has taken on the herculean task of turning the letters of my font House Mouse into vectors. For those not familiar with this process, a vector is a digital image that has no resolution so it can change size freely without becoming pixelated. The process of vectoring the letters involves taking a scan of the drawings and digitally tracing them in Adobe Illustrator. This takes about an hour and a half a letter. A
Rethinking the Fortress and New Moons
The Fortress, Oil on Panel, 12 x 24 inches, 2018 I was mildly dissatisfied with the Fortress when I completed it earlier this summer. At that time, however, I figured that I might as well just make an entirely new painting if I wanted to change its lighting scheme and palette. But sitting on my couch each night looking at it hanging above my television the picture became increasingly bothersome. How did I manage to paint something so grey, flat, and colorless? Eventually I be
Una Historia Una Veritas Part I
Preparatory Drawing for Una Historia Una Veritas , Pencil on Paper, 24 x 36 inches, 2018 My third expedition to Montana to excavate dinosaur bones with the Carthage Institute of Paleontology is right around the corner and I've launched an associated project. This 24 x 36 inch drawing is the blueprint for an oil painting of the same size. This is a phantasmagoria of the dinosaur rich Hell Creek Formation which snakes across North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and a s
