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.

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.  

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

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 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.

I did sketches for a gallery show in Beijing at the end of 2016, a series of fictional Chinese sea monsters.