2024 Events

December 6 – 7 2024: Cafted Social presents Winter Market, 6-9pm preview night on Dec 6th and 10am – 4pm on Dec 7th at the Greyline Station, Lexington, KY. December 21, 2024: Last Call Art Market 11am – 5pm at West Sixth Brewery in Lexington, KY. December 7, 2024 – January 4, 2025: SAGA’s (Society…

Pamphlet Stitch Book: Step-by-Step

An easy pamphlet stitched book to get your creative juices flowing — get creative with your materials and then fill your book with sketches, ideas, a story, a comic — anything! SUPPLY LIST – 8.5 x 11 inch copy paper (inside pages) – Cover material (cereal box, other recyclable paper board material, fabric, wrapping paper…

Bugged Out at Ayatana this Summer

I had a truly inspiring experience with a group of 5 artists for Ayatana Artists’ Research Residency’s Swarm, an intensive study of insects. All the scientists, participating artists, and Ayatana Director, Alexis Williams, were engaging and enlightening. It was the perfect time to test the capabilities of my phone’s camera with clip-on macro lens (works…

Spring Sprint

Spring Sprint was created after doing some light research on the origins of racing, spurred initially by my admiration of Thomas Bewick’s advertising cuts of the late 1700s and early 1800s. Bewick was a master of miniature vignettes in wood and metal engraving. I love the classic look of them and then started to look…

Cool Inspiration – New prints!

I’ve added several new prints in Starpointe’s online shop — original art, original gifts — you can’t get much cooler than that! – A Jackalope in black & white — a woodcut interpretation of the mythological wild-west-beast. – An illustration for Wells Book Arts Center’s fifth chapbook, Negative Compass by Bret Shepard. – And three…

Jumping Jackalopes!

My brand new Jackalope print will be exhibited at the Mid America Print Council Conference (MAPC) in Laramie, Wyoming October 3–6, 2018 as part of the Jackalope Portfolio organized by Oscar Gillespie. The conference theme is “Go West.” In that spirit, Gillespie sold the Jackalope portfolio exchange theme to 23 participants: “The frontier is forever…

The Engraver’s Smackdown in Las Vegas!

There was an epic showdown at the Southern Graphics Council International’s Annual conference, Altered Landscape, in Las Vegas, Nevada at Bally’s Convention Center on April 5, 2018. Metal engraver, James Ehlers and I dueled for engraving supremacy! Graver to graver, magnifiers poised; the game is on. During this lively demonstration we had an unprecedented face off between…