Saturday, October 8, 2011

Coco Does NY

My Coco Tribal Mask was selected as one of the fine arts of the NYCOCO MoCA Gallery located at the world-famous Time Warner Center in New York City from October 24th till November 3rd!  I mailed out the original polymer clay sculpture to the gallery and spruced up the digital version just a smidgen.



Thursday, October 6, 2011

Top of the Key

Continuing with my logo theme, here is a logo I designed for a sports clothing line called Top of the Key.  The half basketball design is on all their clothes.  What you see here is a paper sculpture consignment for the owner of the company.


Top of the Key logo, February 2002

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

United Way Jet Pull

I work for USAirways in the tower in Philadelphia as a weight and balance coordinator.  Every year we raise money for the United Way by playing a little tug-o-war with one of the airline's jets.  I named our group and designed the t-shirts in 2009 and 2010.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Poison Frogs

I love these little jewels of the rainforest.  Here are four of my earlier attempts to illustrate them.  Starting upper left and moving clockwise, they are Amazonian Poison Frog (D. ventrimaculatus), Strawberry Poison Frog morph (D. pumilio), Harlequin Poison Frog (D. histrionicus), and Red-Backed Poison Frog (D. reticulatus).  All skin patterns were done in Photoshop and made into 3D paper sculptures.

Poison Frogs, August - October 2006

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Razorback Musk Turtle

Here is the latest addition to my Animal Pendant Series, a little Razorback Musk Turtle.  As with all the other pendants, it is made of Premo polymer clay.  I cut out a stencil for all of the shell segments and models and molds for the head and feet.  Speaking of the shell, I also made a clay form, from which the turtle shell lays on and is molded and baked.  Once again, faux wood and faux leather techniques were used to create this little creature.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Groucho Logo

I did this brush and ink many moons ago to be used on a business card.

Groucho logo, June 1997

While watching Elmer Fudd tracking Bugs Bunny on TV, Tater says, "Dad?  Do people really hunt rabbits?"
"Yea, I guess they do", was my reply.
Then Tater says, "Why don't they just get 'em at the grocery store?"
He followed that up with, "Anyway, I think rabbits are 'stinct."

Monday, September 26, 2011

Bluestone logo

I've dabbled in logo making here and there.  Shown here is one for the Blue Stone Landscaping company.  This is the color version.  There is also a black and white and another where just the stone is colorized.  I'm teaching myself Adobe Illustrator, so these will eventually get better.

Bluestone logo, October 2009