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UMD Faculty Biennial

I'm excited to be included in the Faculty Biennial show at the Tweed Museum on the campus of the University of Minnesota. The opening will be alongside ...

Lake Superior 20-20 Map

Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Artist Tour

I'll be a guest artist this Fall at the Lake Superior 2020 studio and artists tour. I'll be at the Shoreview Natives site, with prints, cards, stickers, ...

Stickers!

I now have stickers for sale! Stick 'em on your stuff. Stick 'em on your sister's stuff. Available in the online shop! Click here for the ...

Shrooms

On June 14, there's a worldwide art hide and seek called Game of Shrooms. Artists hide mushroom-themed pieces, and give clues to where they are, and you can ...

Adventures in crop art

When I go to the Minnesota State Fair, every year, after seeing the crop art, I think "I want to try that. That could be fun.' And then July of the next ...

Animal Allies Logo

University of Minnesota School of Public Health

The University of Minnesota School of Public Health asked me to help them produce a series on animated videos exploring the topics of antiracism, equity, ...

Hendricks Regional Health Newsletter

Spire Poster and Ad

Darin Bergsven CD and videos

CD design for Darin Bergsven, a fantastic jazz guitarist. I also shot and edited a couple of videos with him that were lots of ...

Ordean Foundation

In 2023, the Ordean Foundation in Duluth celebrated 90 years of giving back to the community. Director Don Ness asked me to create several videos for the ...

Barnyard

Big, busy barnyard farm scene. Available as a print, click here for

Gallery Show at Duluth Pottery

An exhibition of recent illustration work, at the very snazzy Duluth Pottery/Warrior Printress Gallery in Duluth's Lincoln Park Craft District - 1924 West ...

It’s Time to Go to Bentleyville

I made an animated music video for Breanne and Anya Tepler's song "It's Time to go to Bentleyville." Breanne entered the song in Bentleyville's official song ...

Illustrated Poster for 2023 Duluth Superior Film Festival

Duluth Superior Film Festival

I got to do the poster and trailers for the 2023 Duluth Superior Film Festival. I did a poster for the fest back in 2013, in its earliest days, and drew a ...

Homegrown at Wild State Cider

Ripsaw News

I contributed several illustrations and occasional cover design to the Ripsaw News back in the day. This cover featuring the art of Rick Allen was one of my ...

Moose

And here's a quick step-by-step showing a typical painting process. Click here to purchase a print!

Santa’s Little Brother, Sorta Claus

A new book illustrated by me, and written by Lee Lynch. A silly Q&A with Santa's little brother, Sorta. He's got the inside scoop about what goes on behind ...

BUGS!

It's summer, time for

The Rhizomes, Duluth Homegrown Music Festival

It's been awhile since I played in a band, and this new one - The Rhizomes - has our first ever show on May 4th. Also been awhile since I've done a ...

Chamber of Commerce Logo

Law & Politics Magazine

Design, production and art direction of a monthly

Yeti Needs a Haircut

From the team that brought you "Nobody Likes a Booger," get ready for "Yeti Needs a Haircut. Written by Angela Halgrimson, and illustrated by me, it's ...

animation motion graphics

Animation and Motion Graphics demo reel

Here's an animation and motion graphics demo reel of recent projects. It includes TV advertising, instructional videos, product videos, character design, stop ...

Scruffy the Penguin

This started out as a sketch for a 3D model I wanted to make, but the 3D modeling wasn't going as I hoped. But I liked the sketch, so I finished it up in ...

UMD Visual Culture Lecture Series

Last year, I was invited to give a presentation at the University of Minnesota and show some work, talk about the biz. It's still happening, but via ...

Whittier neighborhood, Minneapolis

I moved to Minneapolis from Lincoln, Nebraska in 1989. One of my first jobs was working for the Whittier Globe, one of many neighborhood newspapers in ...

My Friend Angry

Written by Amy Krohn, illustrated by me. Published by Beaver's Pond Press, available in my

Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden, 1989

Some photos I recently found that I shot just after moving to Minneapolis in 1989, walking around my new ...

Dance Attic – Woodblind CD Release Gigposter

Been awhile since I did a gigposter, here's a very info-packed poster featuring the CD cover design I did for the 2nd Dance Attic release. And they ...

Logo Design

Some samples of logos done over the

Keep Duluth Clean

Draw-A-Long Fun Time

A couple months ago I thought about doing a very short, very silly draw-a-long type series of videos, and this seems like a heckuva good time to give it a ...

Chester Bowl Poster

A view from up the hill at Chester Bowl looking down at the iconic Chester Bowl chalet. $10 from each of these poster sales will go to support the ...

Grand Marais on 4×5 Film

A few shots from my 1950s Crown

Letter from a Librarian

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5A-AYIhm_P/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Here's a funny letter Angela received regarding "Nobody Likes a Booger." So much fun to ...

Mummy

Film photography

I took lots of photography classes in college, I was shooting several rolls of film a week to have enough work to show in weekly critiques in photography ...

Falling Knife Brewing Co. Logo

I got to do this logo for a new brewery in Minneapolis, Falling Knife Brewing. A collaboration with @bradnelson218 and his marketing company, Specific ...

Locally Laid Eggs, “egg”splainer video

“Salvage” movie poster

Movie poster designed for Amy C. Eliott's documentary, "Salvage." It's about the dump in Yellowknife, Canada and made its world premieire at SXSW ...

Hundredth Day Disaster

Hundredth Day Disaster, written by Bridget Reistad, illustrated by me. Here's a very ... energetic live reading of the book by Kid Time Story ...

Riplist Movie Poster

A movie poster illustrated and designed for documentary filmmaker Mike Scholtz. See the trailer here. .embed-container { position: relative; ...

Frankenwine

IPBA Silver Award

Nobody Likes a Booger won a Silver Ben Franklin Award from the Independent Book Publisher's Association. Whoop

2018(ish) Demo Reel

3D Modeling and animation

I've dabbled in the dark arts of 3D animation for a few years, and I feel like I'm slowly getting the hang of it. There's so much to learn, and it's so ...

Nobody Likes a Booger

Available for pickup in the Duluth area. Change "Shipping" to "Pickup" in the cart page. Hot diggity! Two gold awards from MIPA, Illustration and Total ...

Endpapers for a new book

I can't reveal the title just yet, but I illustrated a book that'll be coming out later this year,

Music Video for the Dames – “Head of State”

Dance Attic

Dance Attic will be your new favorite guitar/accordion duo, I promise. I had the pleasure of working with them on a video, and then they hired me to do the ...

3 Pigs

  3 Pigs. Available as a print in the Print

Fun with Macro Lenses

Shot some images of the guitar I've had forever. Makes my scrungy old guitar look even scrungier when you see it up close.   ...

Big little helper

This is Oliver. He helped with / starred in the video we were working on

New work on display, December 2016

I'll have a show here in Duluth at Beaner's Central through the month of December. The show goes up December 7th with an opening reception Thursday ...

Bear

Available as an 11 x 14" print. In the shoppe! Click here for the

Woodblind CD

A collaboration between Shawn Stigsell (who designed the trees on the original Woodblind EP) and myself, using the characters from the animated ...

Phrazer Logo

Monster at the Matinee

Acrylic on Canvas, from the collection of Mike V.

Frog

Now available as a

Moeview’s Vinyl Lounge

Some graphics for Moeview's Vinyl Lounge. Moe has been doing some internet radio for awhile and will be taking it to the streets (or the Red Herring) ...

Thee Sturgeons

Freshwater Freakout by Thee Sturgeons Thee Sturgeons play surf music from the North Shore of Lake Superior.   See the Bandcamp page and the ...

Robots

A group of robots, now for sale in The Olde Print Shoppe. I also made a short little animation of them, the soundtrack is from things around the ...

Holiday Gift Guide

Art for the Perfect Duluth Day annual Gift Guide. Repurposed from a t-shirt

The Stockings Were Hung 2015

I think this will be year 5, glad to see it is carrying on even after founder Dan Boardman lost his battle with cancer this spring. His son will be leading ...

The Replacements: Lincoln, NE, 1986

I have been storing a box of negatives and contact sheets from my college days for, oh, about 30 years now. Some of the images were printed for classes and ...

Loon print

Just finished up a new illustration now available as an 11" x 14" giclee print. Loon - the Minnesota state bird. $25, click here for the online ...

Don Ness – Hillsider, snapshots of a curious political journey

  Duluth Mayor Don Ness has written and published a book titled "Hillsider - snapshots of a curious political journey" He asked several people ...

Perfect Duluth Day Food Truck Guide

An illustration for Duluth's Duluthiest Website, Perfect Duluth Day. A guide to the city's food trucks, carts and ...

Welcraft Marine Catalogs

Art direction, design and production of annual catalogs for the marine industry, showcasing features, specifications and options. Attended photo ...

Chester Bowl Logo

I've worked with Chester Bowl on promotions and fundraising, and created the current log, as well as a separate logo for the chalet fundraising ...

Tim Kaiser Indiegogo

Tim Kaiser, mad scientist and subject of this portrait, has an Indiegogo campaign for a new recording project. Act fast and you can get one of his handmade ...

Woodblind: Big Voice

Music video for Duluth acoustic ska band Woodblind. woodblindska.com Guitar/Vocals: Jason Wussow Bass/Vocals: Veikko Lepisto Acoustic ska à la ...

The Bark in the Park

A sequel to The Soggy Doggy, Norm finds friends and adventure at the dog park. Available in early 2015 from Beaver's Pond ...

FiddlePal Logo

A new logo design for FiddlePal, the music instruction company run by Brian Wicklund. I first worked with Brian about 20 years ago illustrating his ...

Animal Allies Logo

Logo for Animal

Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce logo

Logo design for the Duluth Area Chamber of

Chester Bowl Logo

Logo for Chester Bowl, a neighborhood park and ski

Loll Cleaning Kit

Red Mountain – “Forestasia”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrcfRbTMC_Q   A music video for Red Mountain, shot on the top of beautiful Goat Hill in Duluth, ...

The Stockings Were Hung Gigposter

The 6th annual Holiday Hootenanny, the 5th poster I've done for

MinnPost Met Council illustration

A quick piece done for Minnpost.com. Most of the time on this was spent discussing things like drool vs. no drool, and Wallace vs. Steve Buscemi's ...

Eight Candles and a Tree

A kid's book written by Simone Bloom Nathan, and illustrated by me. Tommy joins Sophie’s family as they eat latkes, light candles in the menorah, and ...

Run Westy Run, Black-Eyed Snakes, Junkboat

I was asked to do a gigposter for the reunited Run Westy Run, Black-Eyed Snakes, Junkboat show here in Duluth. Run Westy Run was still playing quite a bit ...

Lenny the Crow

Written by Angela Halgrimson, illustrated by me. Order the book and check out more info at Angela's website, or Bookhouse Fulfilment. If you'd like to ...

The Soggy Doggy

  A true story, written by Andy Allen, illustrated by me. Check out the website where you can buy the book and find out more about Andy and ...

Choo Choo Bob – Holy Smokestacks!

Click here to purchase. Illustration and design for the Choo Choo Bob book, Holy Smokestacks! Based on characters and stories from The Choo Choo Bob ...

Tim Kaiser

Portrait of local musician/artist/scientist/evil genius/weirdo, Tim Kaiser. Tim builds sci-fi mutant musical instruments that beep, chirp, drone, ...

Flock

Acrylic on

Tangier 57

I was the drummer for Tangier 57. I'm a pretty crappy drummer, but I make nice posters and album covers, so they kept me around. We also made a video ...

Godzilla 2014

So, the new Godzilla movie opens this weekend. We're planning to see it and are pretty excited about it. It reminded me of an illustration I did for the ...

Wicker Kittens poster

Wicker Kittens, "the documentary about competitive jigsaw puzzling" will premiere at SXSW 2014. I had the honor of creating the poster. Look out, puzzle ...

Tangier 57 CD Design

The first full-length disk from Duluth's swankiest, Tangier 57. A Tiki-tinged treat.     The whole Tangier 57 @ BandCamp Store Our ...

The Black-Eyed Snakes “Rise Up”

Created for the 2009 Duluth Homegrown Music Video Festival. Participants draw a song from a local band from a hat, then had a weekend to make a video for ...

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