2016 Christmas cards for my three girls.  Heather utilizes lots of nature, wildlife, and celestial bodies as design elements in her photography, and has a passion for her red hiking boots, so along with those, I chose an owl to represent the wisdom, beauty, majesty, freedom, joy, and soaring of spirit that Heather has experienced since moving to Lake Tahoe.

Middle daughter Kristi loves the character Deadpool, I think because she shares some similar traits as he; lots of sass and spunk, a hilarious sense of humor, a potty mouth, a "don't take no shit" attitude, and while she doesn't have super powers per say, she is dedicated to working out in the gym, and has a rock'n bod.  Since I like to draw animals in my cards, I thought "Deerpool" would be perfect for her and the season.

After a little hiatus, the travel bug finally re-emerged to take a bite.  Lauren will be going with Kristi to New Zealand in January.  While emu's are actually native to Australia, I couldn't resist the wacky features and expression on this bird.  This is Lauren!  Happiness, laughter, adventure, acting goony and having lots of fun is her daily dose of medicine…it's addictive!!

I feel so fortunate to be a father to such beautiful, wonderful daughter's, each with unique personalities, gifts and talents that continually amaze and profoundly affect my life life for the better!

Well, other than I usually do some sort of Halloween or Fall theme for my sister Shauna's birthday card, and wanted to do something a bit different, I have no clue why I came up with a fish…I just wanted it to be colorful.  So there it is…a bubble blowing, colorful fish.  Happy Birthday sis!

My eldest daughter, Heather, and I have joyously reconnected after a rather long period of tension and estrangement, and her birthday has arrived at a most opportune time to renew my card tradition with her.

Heather has been living in the breathtaking town of South Lake Tahoe for the last year or so, and has been inspired and become passionate about nature, hiking, camping, painting, and photography, among other things, so I used some of these elements as inspiration for her card.  She actually has a pair of bright red hiking boots, and the dots are an ode to one of her favorite design elements.

As my mother becomes progressively more feeble in mind and body, the family caring for her in Idaho feel that the sun will soon be setting upon her earthly reign, making this Mothers day particularly poignant.  

The rose can be likened to the human life cycle; from the seed, soil, water, and light emerges the tiny green sprout, stretching, yearning, evolving into the virile young bud, eventually bursting forth in the full bloom of maturity, both beauty and thorn, representing contrasts in character and experiences.  But inevitably, petals and leaves begin their fade, moisture turns sere and all too soon, the winds silently whisper, "take flight, that you may be free and begin anew."

Mom has lived a full life; a life of love, family, generosity, loyalty, friendship, service, talent, music, performance, vitality, spirituality, joy, heartache and tears.  She wasn't perfect, but she should be counted amongst the best!!  When peace takes her by the hand, she will be leaving a legacy to the countless lives she touched and enriched!

She is and will always be the beautiful rose.

While Arches National Park is actually northeast of St George, this is a striking and well known image from the red rock section of Utah, and I felt it was a fitting design for my friends annual golf tournament.  From some of the stories I've been told, a good majority of them might find it difficult to hit a hole even this large. ;)

Drawing caricatures for a wedding this month, and the couple wanted to get one done beforehand to commemorate their engagement while vacationing in Greece.

I don't know how well my weird sense of humor translates sometimes, or if it comes off at all, but be that as it may, this years birthday card for my sister Karen…and I really didn't send any cash! :)

Super Bowl 50 is coming to the delight of football fans everywhere...so my rendition of "Clash of the Titans"…39 year old, creaky, oft broken and mended legend of the Denver Broncos going head to head against the young, brash, macho "new kid" of the Carolina Panthers. 

Primaries and debates are presently being foisted upon the American public, so I thought it was time to pick on the current front runners for both parties.  They already seem like cartoon characters to me, which makes it pretty easy to poke fun!!! :)

Star Wars has been soaring through outer reaches of the movie universe lately.  I was pondering about George Lucas' decision to sell his company to Disney, which then turned the directors helm over to JJ Abrams for Episode VII.  I thought it would be fun to imagine George, despite making billions, having second thoughts about passing on the proverbial light saber.