Brand new digital painting...

"The Beekeepers" 

New 2014 Promo Postcard!

Brand NEW postcard promo for January 2014! Off to the printer as soon as I decided on what's going to be on the other side of the card.

Santa's New Years Eve!

Even Santa gets to have a good time on New Years Eve! Happy 2014 Everyone! :D

Halloween Illustration from a few weeks ago...

I used this for the cover of my portfolio book. Mother Monster trying to entertain her offspring.

A newer digital painting...

It's called "King Bird" and yea,  I does have me a story that goes with it.

New digital painting...

"Home Late"

I'll be posting more soon. I know I've been away for a while but I have more time now, so look for more art to be posted. 

New red pencil sketch...

"The Mayor of Simple Town"

Playing with Prismacolor lately...

A new Prismacolor drawing for 2013 of one of my characters, Mrs. Apple.

Happy New Year everyone!

The story continues...(this is part two)

The story continues...

So then the elves decided to use a rocket ship

that would deliver all the presents

However, they had no landing strip

so the return would lead to bad events

“Let’s use the big truck”, yelled one of the elves

so they packed it up for the night

Every stocking on the shelves

and every wrapped up gift in sight.

Just then the sick reindeer regurgitated Santa Claus

who seemed no worse for the wear

And was welcomed back with a round of applause

even though he smelled like a stinky old bear

So this night, Santa got back in his sleigh

with the presents packed in his bag

Santa was off to places far away

but at the first house he got stuck in the chimney and that was a drag.

A Merry Christmas to all!

A Christmas story in two parts. This is part one.

I came down sick last night for Christmas so I decided, while resting to put together a quick little story for the season using some repurposed art I had done some years ago and cobbled together this silly little story.

This is part one:

On a night sometime before christmas

up at the north pole

Most were in their pajamas

Except that snowman troll

One reindeer was crazed by drinking too much eggnog

and was roaming the north half baked

He came upon Santa and thought he was a hog

The reindeer then swallowed him whole as his belly ached

The elves were puzzled because Santa was missing

A replacement was needed right a way.

Maybe the robot Santa was convincing

as they sadly but busily loaded up the sleigh

But then the abominable snow monster struck

and ate all of it up

The sleigh, the presents but not the big truck

but then stopped like some sort of Schlup

To be continued...

Da' Elf!

A new Holiday doodle for your Seasonal pleasure.

-M

Up next!: A sequel to Super Alphabet?

This was a demo piece that I did in a video for SCBWI - WA a week ago that showed how I did the art for Super Alphabet... now I'm thinking that a sequel is a doable.
Check out and the video at:
https://vimeo.com/41961644

I got an article in Illustrator's Journal this winter!

With winter about over, I realized that I forgot to post a feature I got in the winter edition of "The Illustrator's Journal"...

http://illustratorsjournal.wordpress.com/digi-mag-winter/

New painting: "OctoPete"

A brand new painting that I finished this week... let me know what you think. OctoPete.

-MC

New year...2012

I did this sketch for my 15 minute sketch challenge on New Year's eve.... Have a great year everyone!

-MC

Santa's post Christmas rest...

I imagine this is the scene after Santa's big night a few days ago... come to think of it... that's what I've felt like since Christmas.

Santa's Trippin'

I did this as a drawing first, then as a vector illustration and now finally as an acrylic paintings on canvas!
http://www.imagekind.com/Santas-Trippin-acrylic_art?IMID=645281d1-4846-4ae7-9b43-eba25dcfc764