Since my career as an advertising art director has gotten me this far, technically I could say that art has always been my profession. For those who may not know the difference, creating original art by my own hands - not directing someone else - is relatively new for me. I'm loving what I'm doing but… read more.
When I was just a little monster I watched my dad start a business drawing crazy characters and cars and putting his designs on T-shirts, calendars and stickers. The year was 1967 and while he didn't make enough dough to stick with it, it stuck with me. We both went onto other careers but I was thinking… read more.
I was hired to art direct a photograph of an entire yet-to-be-revealed UJC (Universal Japanese Car) taken apart after 100,000K miles. The idea was to look like an exploded view type engineer's drawing to be featured in an interactive traveling road show display. Viewers will get to zoom in on specific… read more.
Taco mini bikes are cool. In my neighborhood, everyone wanted one. It turns out they were invented and marketed only about 10 miles from where we lived in So Cal. Desert racer John Steen designed a simple tube frame around a Briggs and Stratton lawn mower motor in the mid-sixties and… read more.
What makes scratchboard art so unique looking is the stark white lines on a jet-black surface. The drama of a scratchboard original is all about capturing light. You create the edge of an object by showing how it looks when lit and leaving the shadows alone. The trick with scratchboard… read more.
M.C. Escher failed the second grade. But that didn't stop him from later creating some of the most well known surreal drawings and woodcuts still appreciated the world over. We know he was a pianist and a master at creating complex mathmatically-driven drawings but I doubt he was a hot rodder. … read more.
I really dig Pete Millar's work in the sixties. His work captured not only the race cars of that era but conveyed a real racer's perspective. That's because he was an artist and a racer. He was one of those brave souls who quit his full-time engineering job to pursue a risky art career drawing… read more.
Sometimes I just draw 'em the way I see 'em. While at the Primer Nationals, I spotted this little roadster with a small block Chevy with wrapped headers and three Strombergs. But what caught my eye was the way the direct overhead sun lit up the fuel lines and the result was this brilliantly… read more.
While at this year's Grand National Roadster Show, I came across this beautiful red flathead Ford and really liked its elegant simplicity and style. In the back of my mind I wanted to create a BOMONSTER scratchboard art drawing of a low angle roadster at speed on a desert road under the… read more.
I live in a small town with plenty of fun side roads if you want to avoid nearby freeway traffic. One day while taking my 1964 Kellison Astra X-300GT out for a mostly legal spin, I passed an old green ford sedan with no hood, no fenders and missing some windows going the other way at a mostly… read more.
