Insects are cool. Steampunk is cool. Together they are cute and fun.

Songbird is a lovely restaurant in St. Louis that I enjoy very much. They are moving to a new location, so I made this in honor of the location where I met them. I wish them the best and I look forward to seeing the new spot.

This was fun to try to get to be clean. I think the crossing line was an artifact of the pen height, so I’ll try again to see if it reproduces.

A collaboration with my daughter It was interesting to work together to see how we describe things differently and the challenges that exist when someone tries to describe what is in their minds eye.

The other day I was dreaming about tattoo’s and in particular traditional flash art. This is a rich area for interpretation and inspiration. An image of a swallow caught my attention and is a classic, simple, and memorable design. There is a lot of opportunity in a plot like this to really experiment with different…

I was watching motorcycle videos and dreaming about classic motorcycles and was inspired to create this. I like the depth and movement that is captured here.

This is a study in patterns that I thought came out nicely. This was a test plot. If you look closely at the right side of the plot, you can see the overplot.

The Outer Banks of North Carolina, or OBX, is where my family went for summer vacation for nearly all the years that I can remember. We often camped and as the family got bigger, we switched to renting houses. In almost all years we stayed in Rodanthe. Sometimes other family members stayed with us or…

I’ve made and mailed a few of these. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but for some reason this one really speaks to me. The tear in the corner is from removing the tape that I use to hold the postcard down on the platform. I mostly use blue painters tape which is…

This was made with a different pen. A Uniball Onyx. This pen uses a liquid ink so the lines are quite different. The pen is also more fine than the bic cristal. I think I may have started and restarted this plot more than once to get the z-axis correct. I think this retracing is…