“Mad Reb”
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Down here near north Mississippi we’re used to hearing the ongoing debate surrounding the University of Mississippi’s long-time controversial Mascot “Colonel Reb”.
Evidently the administration’s tried to “retire” and replace him several times to no avail. Personally, I think the elderly gentleman with the Colonel Sanders tie standing aloofly, leaning on his cane, needs to go. But chunking him altogether may not be the right approach.
So, I drew this concept art of what I call “Mad Reb”.
My attempt is to change the pomp to action, static to motion. Established to CRAZY. Sometimes a little self-deprecating humor (and good art) can save the day. And sometimes, the debate goes on and on and on… driving us all mad.
Over the last 7 months or so, I’ve been combing through my work looking for interesting, and perhaps forgotten, illustration work for the
Today is my daughter Lucy’s sixth birthday.
After watching the Vancouver Olympics, and having a tight deadline on this project, I was inspired to go back and look at some of vintage Canadian Pacific Railway postcard art.
One day I’m gonna re-typeset this art to say “A Heart for MOM” and get it tattooed across my back.
Dear God, please let something like this happen
Here’s a follow-up to my
I was recently given the opportunity to create cover art for the spring edition of Second Look. Here’s a pre-mail sneak peek. It was definitely challenging and fun to try my hand at vector portraiture. A special thanks to
Since I’m on the topic of wood, I thought I’d post this little illustration I did for a friend’s 
