big month!

It's been a pretty big month so far. Been traveling around and just got done with most of the long trips. Stacie went with me up to New York and New England again. 3 times in Vermont this year!!! We stayed at a really cozy place called the Common Man Inn in Claremont, NH. Highly recommended! One of the most hospitable hotels ever, let alone one that was provided us by the client. Very cool. This spring I was in SC, NC, NY, NH, VT, DC, MD, IL, PA, MO and of course, OH.

Some big changes are coming my way this month for sure! One of the biggest is my decision to sign  exclusively with The College Agency. Doug Wood of Modern Arts and Music has been my agent and friend for almost 4 years now. Doug is going to focus more with his musical acts and manage his friend Tracy Silverman's band Eclectica. With all that, he would not have had much time to promote me as I am not a musical act. He was very kind to allow me to use a song from his album "Dream Catcher" on my promotional video and also helped guide me onto the next step in my career. I wish Doug all the best and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank him for all the time and effort he put into booking shows for me, all the introductions he's made into the market and especially for all the invaluable advice he's given me over the past few years. He really knows his stuff and I couldn't have asked for a better mentor. It was great working with Doug and I hope we will stay in touch. Doug is a very accomplished acoustic guitarist. If you are not familiar with his work, please visit his website... www.dougwoodmusic.com, or www.modernartsandmusic.com. Tracy's site is www.eclecticatheband.com. 

That's a big thing but the other thing is I will be moving to Ocean City, Maryland again for the summer this year instead of visiting Put In Bay, OH on the weekends. I can work every day in OC as opposed to just the weekends up at PIB. I'll only be down there for about 2 months but if you happen to go there for vacation and stop in to one of the bars or restaurants on the boardwalk and you are likely to find me at some point in the day from about 5pm till 3am. It will be a long day but it's worth it! When I'm not working on illustrations, I can relax during the day, swim, kayak, fish, bike, get a tan, etc .... It's gonna be rough but I think I can make it.

I'm just gonna miss the wife and dog.

The last bit of news is that I will be doing retail for a few weekends coming up. I will be at the Greek Festival in Tremont doing a rare stint as a RETAIL artist THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. I'll be working off an easel with big paper, markers, artstix, khakis, using a cash register and upselling my ass off. ... The whole 9 yards! After this weekend I will be heading to Arkansas for the Walmart Shareholders Meeting where I will be doing caricatures for a promotion for Smuckers Jelly, then on to another festival to do retail work in VA before I head to the beach. Dang, if I'm lucky though I might have a day off before I go so I can pack and take the dog to the park one last time before taking off.

Here's a new drawing I did for somebody of a coworker of theirs.

traveling again

Been traveling again.  Here's some photos... This is how simple my set up is outdoors... (or indoors generally too):

Here's some drawlins- The latter is one that the girls said, "draw us a really, really funny one please!":

They were setting this "bounce" thing up and ironically, (because it is a space ship) it was so windy that it started to blow away while the guy setting it up was holding it down. Well, he didn't do such a good job... We watched as the rope he was holding it down with suddenly jerked him about 20 feet up in the air, LOL!! A bunch of us ran over to help him and quickly got him down but it was pretty funny. Shame I didn't get it on tape! It was very, very windy that day!

 Some pretty trees:

This week I am off to NC, NH and parts of NY for about a week.