Over the past two weeks Megan and I have been developing a Lenten series graphics package called Resist Easter.
It’s an Easter meets the Screwtape Letters sort of thing, and brings a twist to the traditional approach to Easter by imagining the forces of darkness and evil forming an underground resistance to the Incarnation, using the motif of propaganda posters from different eras employed by resistance cells under enemy occupation. Continue reading →
Some of my friends went in together to get me a hammered dulcimer for Christmas. That’s right, a hammered dulcimer. Pretty sweet, huh?
So I decided that the least I could was to make up a thank-you card. And what better way to say thank-you than with an epic beard?
I can’t think of any better way. Continue reading →
Today Megan and celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary, and I have to say that it has been the best two years of my life. Even though it’s been full of lots of challenges and struggles that we could never have seen coming, I wouldn’t change it for anything and would have made the same decision in a heartbeat.
I made up this art piece based on a song I wrote for Megan a few weeks ago, just to say I Love You!
Here is another freelance project I worked on over the summer, Out Of This World. Mostly vector graphics with a bit of dirty overlay to give it a kind of retro space theme which I think is kind of fun.
I decided on the negative effect for the back just for the heck of it, plus it gives a place to put some text if one so desires. Or whatever. 
Enjoy. Continue reading →
This was a pretty fun postcard to work on. I got the idea of making this into a wanted poster by thinking about how no matter how many times I try to bowl with any semblance of skill, I always fail miserably, and there are these rogue pins taunting me with another shot at them.
Granted, I am a terrible bowler, and half of the time I try to go for a more stylistic approach, which generally means doing a full 360 before actually releasing the ball. Needless to say, my scores rarely break 100. Continue reading →
Graphics and video for rezlife’s Grow Summer 2012. This is one of the first projects that I was actually able to work on post-transplant, so it was a little slow going, but I managed to get it pulled together.
This year rezlife student ministries will be doing all kinds of missions work- in the Kansas City area, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Honduras and South Africa, so there is pretty much something for everyone, even Float Trips!
Enjoy. Continue reading →
This is another side project that I worked on over the summer and never got around to posting. The idea behind this was to show the brokenness of relationships that characterizes the human condition after the Fall.
I liked the idea of taking an image of a couple and splitting it in two, yet still keeping it close together as if they are trying to maintain some semblance of togetherness, even though the underlying brokenness is apparent. Continue reading →
Back in the summer of 2011 I started creating some freelance artwork for bulletin covers, postcards, etc. For whatever reason I never got around to actually posting them here, and was only recently reminded about doing so.
This particular installment is a concept I developed called Almost Alive. I had the idea of a branch that was broken and bleeding, but that had been band-aided back together as a sort of metaphor for brokenness and healing. Megan and I headed down to Heritage Park in Olathe, KS, and found a good spot to break some twigs. The food coloring got a little out of control, but it ended up working out in the end.
I can’t remember if I left the band-aid on the tree or not… Continue reading →
I wrote a guest article for CreationSwap entitled Toward the Beautiful on the metaphysical underpinnings of beauty and how that relates to the role of an artist in the work of creating art. Check it out here.
This year I decided to make Megan an early custom Christmas card, since right now every day seems to blend together and dates and times seem to not have as much veracity to the calendar as in the normal times of life. Continue reading →
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