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Self-taught artist and photographer. My life through my drawings, paintings, sketchbooks, and photographs.
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The people will survive In their environment The dirt, scarcity and the emptiness Of our south The injustice of our greed The practice we inherit The dirt, scarcity and the emptiness Of our south There on the beach I could see it in her eyes I only had a Corona Five-cent deposit

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It's a sign of strength to ask for help.

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Hey! If you're near Columbus, Ohio, this weekend, come out and visit me and my partner at S.P.A.C.E. (Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo) at the Ohio Expo Center! I'll have 2 new art zines! "Flora" is all plant paintings, and "Studies in Humanity" is a collection of my favorite portraits.

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this painting is for sale. DM if interested!

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I still get all choked up at that scene in "The Wrath of Khan" when Kirk is giving Spock's eulogy and says "Of my friend, I can only say this. Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most...human."

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Doctor Fate vs. the Gibbering Mouther. 8x10 inches, ink and watercolor on watercolor paper. An homage of sorts to Erol Otus and old school DnD.

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For some strange reason I really am at a loss to explain, I felt a strong compulsion to paint this in my sketchbook last night. I even gave it a title..."The Living Cross / For He is a Living God."

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"Doctor Fate Ascends into the Cosmos." Getting back to basics here. 8x10 inches, ink and watercolor on watercolor paper.

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A very old drawing of Moon Knight that I still love. I can't believe this is 16 years old!

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Sketchbook study of Black Bolt, King of the Inhumans, for a possible future painting.

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Doctor Fate Finds Hope in the Darkness. 8x10 inches, acrylic paint and watercolor on watercolor paper

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A painting titled "Journeying to the Land of the Dead, Doctor Fate Traverses the Solar Disk on the Back of the Falcon God Ra." It's hard to tell, but the serpent on Ra's head is metallic silver paint. 8x10 inches, acrylic paint on watercolor paper. This painting is available.

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Tongue depressor with the width of a spatula.

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Can you say "fuck" in a pop song?

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Today, I unexpectedly saw an enormous hornet.

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I did what had to be done.

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Doctor Fate Uses the Magic to Douse the Flames at Ed's Filling Station (Apologies to Ruscha and Guston) 8x10 inches, acrylic paint on watercolor paper. This painting is available.

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I've had to do a lot of thinking about life lately. How to live it. Whether to end it. What it means. I made the diary comic about the first steps.

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I drew this on Sunday, after days of cold gray rain in Ohio. The sun did return, briefly, on Monday and probably saved my life. It's been a really rough spring here in Ohio.

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Doctor Fate Uses the Lantern of Mzantaroth to Light His Way as He Walks Over the Polar Waters. 8x10 inches, acrylic paint and watercolor on watercolor paper. This painting is available.

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I dig the fact that on 2 consecutive albums, Yes had songs called "Does It Really Happen?" (Drama, 1980) and "It Can Happen" (90125, 1983).

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I've struggled with seasonal depression lately, wanting to give up. Unexpected wisdom came from a podcast about the Yes album 90125. They talked about the song Hold On. Yes singer Jon Anderson said the inspiration for the song came from a GK Chesterton quote about hanging on. So I made a comic.

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Two rough sketchbook studies for future Doctor Fate paintings. The first shows Doctor Fate walking on the Arctic Ocean at night. The second deals with my Parkinson's-related struggles with suicidal ideation.

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A painting of Doctor Fate titled "The Hand of Fate." An obvious homage to the art of Philip Guston. 8x10 inches, acrylic paint on watercolor paper. This painting is available.

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Doctor Fate, the Spear of Destiny, and the Avatar of Punishment. 8x10 inches, ink and watercolor on watercolor paper. This drawing is SOLD.

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One year ago I drew a tiny picture of Jesus, who looks ambivalent about his resurrection.

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Because every villain needs a hero, here is a Spider-man to go with yesterday's Rhino.

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An older painting of the Spider-man villain known as the Rhino. The poor guy... no one really understands. It's tough to be the Rhino.

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An older painting of Gorilla Grodd, a villain from DC Comics.

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I'm hesitant to share my photography here. I do a lot of it and am proud of the work, but it involves human bodies and that seems to throw people off. Here is work from Feb. I took the photos, developed the film myself, then scratched and manipulated the negatives to get these. It's all handmade.

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Current mood.

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An older drawing of the Silver Surfer. I'm pretty sure this hangs on the wall of a good friend!

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