Back-to-School Time for Teachers

So, what happened to your lesson plans over the summer? Get the shirt and let everybody know. I created this (and a bunch of other educational stuff because my wife is an educator) many years ago and it is still fashionable "teacherwear." Click here. 

Need education clip art? Go here to learn about my collection of clip art just for teachers.

Hopefully someday all the art in the Gallery will be updated with vector images. But in the meantime there are still many pieces of art that still work great for many projects in the classroom or at home.

Need Spot Art?

Creating spot artwork for publications is a specialty of mine. I have created many spot illustrations for magazines, books, and etc. So, art directors and editors, if you need a little something to fill that little extra space just drop me a note and I'll come up with something for you. Just click on the image above and you will be taken directly to my contact page.

Art Mends People

Clinical research has shown that art can be an effective way to help ailing patients mend. Yet, many hospitals and other care facilities lack the resources to provide art materials to patients. That's where my personal charity project, Art Mends, steps up. Art Mends provides free art materials to children and adults coping with challenging illnesses. So far, through small donations and sales of my artwork, I have purchased hundreds of dollars worth of art materials and donated them to my local county hospital.

I see expanding Art Mends into a nationwide charitable organization providing art supplies to any and all care facilities that may need them for their patients. I'm not sure how I'm going to do this, but I'll keep working on it and figure it out along the way like I always do. 

Update: Sadly, my plans for Art Mends have changed. I have turned my focus to hereditary cancer awareness and prevention because of a tragedy in my life. See "An Individual Doesn't Get Cancer, a Family Does"

Above and left are just a few of the art supplies I've donated so far. Please visit https://artmends.org/

More about Art Mends and me here.

Boommer & Pudtz

Boommer & Pudtz are a couple characters of mine -- an old guy and his wiener dog.

Please note: Boommer & Pudtz is an "old" creation of mine that, unfortunately, has been put on hold while I work on pressing assignments and other miscellaneous art projects.

Pool Party Time!

A bit of carefree fun.

 This popular card was originally created by me for the C. R. Gibson card company back in the early 90s. (available here)

Let me slip away on you...

  The Road to Carefree. What the Carefree "Highway" was like in my childhood.
Acrylic on canvas. 24" x 36" Private collection.

The name of this blog was partly inspired by one of the places I wanted to have a studio when I was younger, Carefree, Arizona, and the road that takes you there, the Carefree Highway. A road that played a very important role in my life. Long before they widened it and put up all the ugly cookie-cutter houses, apartments, and strip malls and ruined the natural scenic beauty of the area.

 

Let me slip away on you...

 The Road to Carefree. What the Carefree "Highway" was like in my childhood.
Acrylic on canvas. 24" x 36" Private collection.

The name of this blog was partly inspired by one of the places I wanted to have a studio when I was younger, Carefree, Arizona, and the road that takes you there, the Carefree Highway. A road that played a very important role in my life. Long before they widened it and put up all the ugly cookie-cutter houses, apartments, and strip malls and ruined the natural scenic beauty of the area.