Welcome to my main website, where fifty years of Art, Design, and Advertising converge into a maxilmaist mix of everything all at once.
But don’t worry you’re safe here. This is the Art section.
You'll find a bunch of my creations over the years below.
Every piece that you see on this page is an expression of my passion for making things that I like, and assume others will too. But if they don’t that’s ok.
The art is grouped with some thought by genre, concept, timeline, theme, series, medium, or just the joy that comes with creating something cool with no rhythm or reason. Art becomes design, design becomes ads, ads become art, it’s all a big crazy mash-up.
Check it out, and you’ll see how my advertising and design experiences infuse and shape my art and what I create today.
︎ PS: I’m selling some of my work over a lifetime of creating with limited editon prints. This one, “Jerry Has A Bad Habit” was drawn in 1984, and reprinted last year. The full story behind it, and purchasing options are at Gary Holme’s Fine Lookin’ Art Gallery, ︎ here.
If you’re intertested in a commission or want to learn more about collaborations or anything else, contact my partner & agent. She’s cool and she’ll help you out: marleah@polygorgeous.com
In the meantime, thanks for checking out my art page.


I learned to draw and paint in the mid-seventies. Below, some oil on canvases, that I mainly stretched myself. Late 20th century American Impressionism was the style, school and color palette, similar to painters from the Boston School, artists like Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank Weston Benson, and William Paxton.



(L to R)
“Self Portrait”, 1979, 11”x14” Oil on Canvas, Detroit, Michigan
“Deer And The Gun That Killed It”, 1979, 16” x 20”, Oil on Canvas, Upper Peninsula, Michigan
“Flowers in a Bowl”, 1979, 20” x 16”, Oil on Canvas, Harper Woods, Michigan
“Speedway 7-11”, 1980, 9”x12”, Oil on Canvas, Tucson, Arizona





(L to R)
“Owen Sound Field”, 2007, 11”x14” Oil on Canvas
“Mt. Clemens Creek On A Hot Summer Day”, 1980, 20”x16” Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)
“St. Clair River in the Cold-Ass Winter”, 1980, 20”x16” Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)
“Baja”, 1980, 12”x9”, Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

After starting in advertising, I still wanted to draw and paint. So I did that, whenever I could. Like all the illustrations below from an ad agency new business brochure, at an agency I worked as an art director, some of which are here.
Agency Self-Promotion Series/Brochure, 1986, 9”x12” Multi-media
1. “Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk”, Rubylith, Litho printed on card-stock Paper
2. “On Target”, Rubylith and Pen & Ink, Litho printed on card-stock Paper
3. “Connecting People”, Watercolor On Paper, Litho printed on Paper
4. “Multi-Media”, Line tape, Zipatone & Letratone Screens on Acetate, Litho, printed on Paper




A decade ago, I went back to Detroit for a creative reset. Some of that work is pictured, here.




Detroit Series, 2014
1. “Ambassador Bridge”, 6”x6”, Pen & Ink on Rag Paper
2. “Joe Louis Fist”, 6”x6”, Pen & Ink on Rag Paper
3. “Spirit Of Detroit”, 6”x6”, Pen & Ink on Rag Paper
4. “Hart Plaza Fountain”, 6”x6”, Artist Proof, Two Color Silkscreen on Paper
And, if you’re up for it, a short video about that little adventure in 2014.

Illustration commissions kept me financially afloat
in LA in the early 1980s. Haha. No, they didn’t. Waiting French Style meals at celebrity tables at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in LA, did that.
But it
was fun to work to a deadline on illustartions, and see my stuff published in the Sunday Morning newspaper of a big, sprawling American megatropolis. I would run out and buy several copies, every Sunday I was published.
As I mentioned, the pay was paltry, the timeline was stressful, but the experience was invigorating and I was always excited whenever I got a call from the editorial art director at the now very defunct, Los Angeles Herald Examiner.









“ICBM Man”, 1983, 9”x 13” Pen & Ink on Paper
“ICBM Man”, 1983, 9”x 13” Published, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
“Gromyko’s Sleeves”, 1984, 14” x 22” Pen & Ink on Paper, Published, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
“The American Way”, 1985, 12”x 16” Pencil on Paper (unpublished)
“Crushing Solidarity”, 1984, 9” x 12” Pen & Ink on Paper (unpublished)
“Pencil Head”, 1985, 10”x 12” Pen & Ink on Paper (personal logo)
“L.A. AIR”, 1984, 6” x 9” Pen & Ink on paper (unpublished)
“Poison Pills”, 1985, 19” x 12” Pen & ink on Paper (unpublished)
Got an agent, and made a promo, with an idea (I like ideas), 1986

I had this idea for years, looking for a fresh way
to blend my advertising career with art. I experimented before with other
mashups, but this first big one was the most ambitious piece I had ever
attempted.

I secured a recently dismantled and disassemble Apple iPod launch vinyl billboard (above), and cut it up into eight 6’ x 6’ squares, then stretched them.








Then, I spray-painted them.




iPod Series, 2007 (L to R)
1. “Self Portrait” 72”x72” Aerosol on Printed Outdoor Vinyl
2. “Flower Stigma” 72”x72” Aerosol on Printed Outdoor Vinyl
3. “The Hand That Feeds” 72”x72” Aerosol on Printed Outdoor Vinyl
4. “Reclining Nude #2”, 72”x72” Aerosol on Printed Outdoor Vinyl




iPod Series, 2007 (L to R)
5. “Sandoz Still-life”, 72”x72” Aerosol on Printed Outdoor Vinyl
6. “Concentric Square Route”, 72”x72” Aerosol on Printed Outdoor Vinyl7. “Lysergic Sunset”, 72”x72” Aerosol on Printed Outdoor Vinyl
8. “Carlos C. Reloaded”, 72”x72” Aerosol on Printed Outdoor Vinyl





I did sketches for a gallery show in Beijing at the end of
2016, a series of fictional Chinese sea monsters.
Gea-Creatures, 2016
1. “Frilled Shar-G”, 8” x 10”, Sharpie on Parchment Paper
2. Salma-Ger, 8”x 10” Sharpie on Parchment Paper
3. G-elly Fish, 8”x 10” Sharpie on Parchment Paper
4. OG-tapus, 8”x 10” Sharpie on Parchment Paper
5. G-Horse, 8”x10” Sharpie on Parchment Paper









A short time-lapse film of me painting an oil landscape canvas, en plein air (outside), in Santa Monica, California, May 2015. I was trained in the American Impressionist style of painting. I’ve returned to this, my first love ~ oil painting. This was a sketch done in just over an hour.
︎ Shiree, PhotographerAtHeart.