6.5″ x 18″ Saltwater Fish Block. Also available in Freshwater.

There are only 22 days left to order for Father’s Day delivery. Place orders by June 9th for delivery by Dad’s big day.

Around June 13th, I will be placing the Etsy shop in vacation mode for a couple of weeks. In early July, the shop will be back but orders will not start shipping until the third week of July. Orders placed by June 13th will ship by the 16th.

Get your graduate this reminder of their alma mater!

Whether on one’s way to college or tossing a mortarboard after 4 years of higher learning, your graduate will love this understated reminder of the town where their alma mater is located. You can also get the box in school colors if you wish

You can request any college town you like during purchase here.

Pick from an array of vintage instrument illustrations for a musical Father’s Day Gift For Dad.

There are just 30 days left to get in your Father’s Day Gift order! You can make this Father’s Day memorable with a unique gift of art from my Etsy shop.

Set of 5 Freshwater Fish Sticks

So it’s been 7 years now since I started drawing fish. Always with the intent of including freshwater fish in the mix. For some reason, I did nothing but saltwater fish for those 7 years, but I have begun the process of erasing the deficit of freshwater fish in the series.

I now have 14 new images in the fish series, with quite a few more in progress. Hopefully I won’t go so long between new fish next time

You can see all the new fish here.

Esperanza, Mexico Town and Country Art Box

Photos of your destination wedding are great, but they sit in an album most of the time. My Town and Country Art Block serves as a little reminder of your special day in a special place. It sits or hangs right out where you can see it and be reminded on a daily basis of where you took that big step toward spending the rest of your life together. You can request any city, state, town or country.

See more City State and Town and Country Art Boxes here.

Lake Lure, North Carolina City State Art Box 11″ x 14″

So you know that place you wish you were most of the year, but you only get to go for a brief week during the summer? My City State  Series serves as a great reminder of those special places where you get away from your own personal rat race. If you have the good fortune to own a place in a distant locale, maybe a lake house even, you are going to need art, and what’s better than art personalized for your favorite location? Maybe you are going to one day have that place of your own on the shores of your current fave vacation spot. Motivation you can hang on your wall!

It doesn’t have to be a town or city, it can be an attraction, a park or whatever your heart desires. I won’t tell.

Click the image or click here to find out more about this listing and find more City State Boxes.

NYC City State Art Box 11″ x 14″

Inspired by vintage road signs one might see upon entering a city, and my kitchen blackboard, I continue a focus on “place” with my new series City State Art Boxes. One of the things a I like about this series is the array of things a pice from the series can signify to different people: Where they are from, where they are now or where the want to be.

These can be used as a gift for a friend who is moving to remind them of their time in your town or city, or a gift that shows the depth to which you understand your friend’s love for a particular place, or just show your own connection with your own hometown or that place you are going to live one day. I’ll have more ideas in my next few posts.

You can specify any town in any US state, and variation on the states are coming that include places outside the US.

Boxes are 11″ x 14″, $65 each and, like all my work, each one is made specifically for the customer purchasing it. Signed and dated on the back.

New Orleans City State Art Box 11″ x 14″

I have always had a sense of place as an underlying theme in much of my art. Maybe this comes from photography, as my scenic photography was always at it’s most simple a record of the places I love.

I began making art that focused on cities and then neighborhoods a long time ago. Where one comes from and where one went from there and where one currently lives are huge parts of one’s personality and life. And the names for these places are so interesting to me. So using the names in my art was a pretty quick decision.

What’s not quick for me usually, is the process from idea to execution. The designer in me fights with the artist in me to create the simplest result from every idea, whether complex or simple to begin with. Often, what I imagine will look good does not, so I have to let new series ideas sit until I develop new styles that fit, or until the scope of the series becomes clear to me. With the day to day of making your living as a working artist, often I just don’t have time to much other than ship orders or optimize listings for maximum exposure.

So I am excited to bring some new work to the world wide web! These series have been percolating for 3 years or more, and I think they are ready for public consumption. I will post each as a separate post over the next few days (as I am wont to write small novels for each) to make the stories behind them more digestible!

First up will be my new City State Art Boxes!

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