About three decades ago, I did some caricatures in a journal I was keeping. They were light hearted sketches of some characters I ran into playing music on the street. Last fall, I used some of these to work up a poster and tee shirt design for Seattle's Buskers' Festival poster contest. My design won the contest for best festival poster.   

I recently completed a how-to booklet for my annual musical saw workshop attendees. For the cover art I used one of my caricature sketches of musical saw player, Tom Scribner. My abilities are only marginal with computer programs for image manipulation. Even so, if it weren't for the skills I've developed using computer software I'm not certain that I would have been able to successfully use my images in either of the two projects.

As a result of my reworking my images for use in the poster design, I am also considering another project that I'll be working up using these same images. One project seems to lead to another and another.

I've also created found object art. My most recent work includes my own junk art guitars. No, I don't consider myself a luthier. The guitars I made were created from actual junk that I've culled from garage sales and swap meets. The stuff that I used, door kick plate, piano sound board, table leg, record player parts, baseball bat, vegetable steamer etc. was never created to play a role in the highly skilled craftsmanship involved in guitar making. It takes a particularly twisted mindset to dream such nightmares into existence. As such my Frankenstein projects, though they look, sound and function well as musical instruments, are actually closer to functional art sculptural constructions.

Besides drawing, found object constructions, and illustrations, I've done some carvings, and graphic design work. Idle hands are the devil's playthings.