It's been a while...

Wow! It has been a while since I've posted anything here! *understatement!* In fact it's been years!

A couple of years ago I started concentrating almost all of my efforts outside of the Cleveland area and got so busy I just went nuts and had to stop updating this. Traveling so often, there just isn't time to update blogs and stuff like this. For much of the last 3 years I have been away from home for 3 weeks at a time for several months at a time. It's been loads of fun but it would be nice to be home more often, which is why I'm making some changes.

Here's the plan: There are at least 5 major cities within 3 hours of my home. If I focus my efforts within that area from now on, I can still travel, (which I still plan to do a lot of) but won't need to spend so much time in hotel rooms and I can work in the studio a LOT more.

My wife Stacie is helping me with some things around the office so I can actually DO ARTWORK! (imagine that, an artist that has time to do artwork...)

I'm very excited that my studio work has increased lately. I've been focused in Adobe Illustrator lately and I really like the look and feel of the program and what is possible with it. I think I've got a pretty good handle on it now and I would really like to do more illustration and get published in a few magazines. The only thing I worry about is that it takes a long time to do a drawing like this:

This Car took me over 24 hours to draw and paint on the computer. All 
said, it takes about a week of steady work to complete one. (Hard to 
find time for that when you're on the road for 3 weeks at a time!) I'll be 
doing a LOT more of these in the future.

I have separated the studio from the bookings on the new websites 
(coming very soon) so I can showcase my artwork of cars, boats, houses,
people and pets in this style and hopefully get more of these fine art 
commissions.

I have a couple of new stage shows I'm excited about too! One is just 
fun and the other is an educational team building exercise.

The show is a lot of fun. It's been a hit too! The show is a way to reach 
out to as many people as possible. There's not that many artists that 
can do something like this either which is great since there seems to 
be a demand for it.

There is too much mediocrity in this business. I love the challenge of 
staying ahead of the curve! I hope you'll stop back and see what's new 
in the next few weeks and months. It's all coming together right now. 
It's gonna be a GREAT NEW YEAR!