Favorites
A randomly generated selection of 20 of the artist’s favorites . You could consider it a “best of” page.
Mother’s Day Portrait (5/11/2020) - A bit of a delay writing this one, but this post is going to be dedicated to Mother's Day and sharing some related artwork. It's naturally been a bit… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Elden Ring Spirit Ash Drawing (3/25/2022) - I thought I had sufficiently scratched the Elden Ring artwork itch with a couple of drawings I shared last week, but apparently that is not the case! I was… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
The Greatness of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (6/11/2018) - One of my favorite shows as a kid was Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K). If you're not familiar with it, MST3K was basically a show about people making fun… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Art Show Entry, Dallas OAC ART214 Exhibition (2/3/2022) - One of my New Year's resolutions for 2022, in addition to the usual "eat better" and "get more exercise" items, has been to enter a drawing into an art… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Catching Up on Blog Posts, Thoughts on Priorities (1/4/2023) - This post is basically about how far behind I am on blogging. I came across a great quote from the artist Richard Schmid who said to "paint like a… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Elden Ring Art – Millicent, Hewg, Alexander, and Turtle Pope (5/3/2022) - As I've discussed quite a bit, I am a big fan of Elden Ring by From Software. The challenging and deep combat of Dark Souls, combined with a massively… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Video Game Museum Scenes (10/19/2019) - A few months ago, during one of our periodic Texas visits, the family and I got a chance to check out the National Videogame Museum in Frisco. As I'm… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Art from an Internet Meme (11/5/2018) - The Millennial generation is known for many things, including craft beer, skinny jeans, and "destroying" seemingly every industry (if you believe cynical clickbait articles). As someone who straddles that… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Lady with Sunflowers Oil Painting (5/20/2023) - https://www.instagram.com/p/CoPuAXzjUvF/ I might say this too often, but the oil painting featured in this post seems to represent somewhat of a milestone for me. It's of a lady with… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Video Game Sketch Inspired by Kenshi (3/22/2020) - This write-up is going to be about a post-apocalyptic sandbox style video game called Kenshi. But it's also going to be about sharing art that you're not entirely satisfied… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Author and Travel Show Host Rick Steves (8/12/2022) - Somewhere in the neighborhood of a decade ago, my wife and I took a honeymoon trip to Europe. To celebrate this anniversary, we decided to make another voyage overseas… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Musical Virtuoso Mike Patton (4/26/2020) - My senior year of high school, I became friends with a group of guys who I've known multiple decades now (how has it been so long?). Since I don't… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
The Laundry Basket Girls (12/7/2018) - I've been all over the place lately with my sketches, jumping around to varied subjects like Ghostbusters, memes, Pinterest, and Einstein. I always come back to my favorite portrait… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Stargate SG-1 and Original Movie Discussion (1/16/2022) - A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a bit on some of my recent viewing habits. Over the last year or so, I've been watching a lot of the… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Welcome to Flavortown (4/27/2019) - Is it Flavor Town or Flavortown? I'm actually not sure. Unfortunately, I don't know Guy Fieri, so I can't ask the Mayor of Flavortown about the preferred spelling. Regardless,… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Geralt and Ciri Art From The Witcher Netflix Show (1/1/2022) - Recently, season two of Netflix's The Witcher series debuted. Back in the summer lock-down months of 2020, I wrote a bit about my impressions from season one and my… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Composition and Color in Portrait Painting (3/12/2023) - With this post, I want to talk a little bit about painting composition and color. At the point in time when I did this painting, which was a couple… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Mr. Miyagi and Daniel from the Karate Kid (5/19/2018) - I've been home sick for a few days, and felt a bit like drawing...unfortunately, I couldn't think of anything, so I just lounged around instead. Last night I finally… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Bob Ross Style Landscape Painting (11/2/2022) - This post will be an interesting one, at least from my perspective. If you've browsed this site, you can see pretty quickly that I'm all about portraits. Usually head-and-shoulder… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Dirk Nowitzki Portrait with Trophy (10/7/2022) - This is going to be yet another piece of artwork dedicated to Dallas Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki. Considering this is now the fourth drawing I've done of Dirk, I… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)