Category: Gist of Art

I’ve been a professional landscape and wildlife artist and photographer for many years. I’ve also drawn comic strips for newspapers and create cover art for my books. Join me here where I share my favorites.

Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 3

For this third installment of Recalling Louie and Bruce, we’re looking at some of my favorite high school comic strips and characters I drew way back when dinosaurs still roamed the planet. The first character was Howard Klutz who was prone to all sorts of mishaps in a strip I called The Klutz. Poor Howard … Continue reading Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 3

Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 2

The first panel below shows Leroy with his physician, Dr. Igor, MSE (Mad Scientist Extraordinaire). I used to have a sketchbook with more Leroy and Dr. Igor sketches and comics but it vanished years ago. Maybe some of Igor’s magic potions were the cause. The next three panels show Bruce selling lumber to a customer, … Continue reading Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 2

Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 1

I used to draw comic strips for fun. It was a hobby, nothing more. I loaded sketchbooks with my ideas, jokes (mine and others), and actual finished projects, which I shared with my friends. One of them, a newspaper publisher, published them in a local newspaper she owned. But that happened years after I stopped … Continue reading Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 1

A Quick Autumn Stroll

Preparing for winter has kept me busy for the past week, but I have finally been able to put together some collages of my favorite autumn photographs. It has been sunny and warm this week in northwest Pennsylvania, but also windy, so many of the deciduous trees are becoming bare by the minute. Despite the … Continue reading A Quick Autumn Stroll

2012.9.26 Art: Evolution of a Painting

Hi everyone. I’m back at the computer after taking a week off. I hope all my United States readers and followers had a great Fourth of July. This repost features the evolution of a black bear I painted in acrylic on canvas in 1989. Enjoy. It began the year before, in 1988. Black bear weren’t … Continue reading 2012.9.26 Art: Evolution of a Painting

A Look Back

This little blog will turn one year old in a few days, so I’d like to look back at some of my favorite posts. Almost all of them are about my artwork, which makes sense since I’ve always been an artist first and foremost. My earliest memories are crayon drawings and fingerpainting with my mom … Continue reading A Look Back

Louie and Bruce 003-2023-0621

The comic page shown below is from October 1981. As I’ve discussed in earlier posts, the top 4 panels of my Louie and Bruce full-length comic strips sometimes told a complete story that I could have used as a short strip. I did this intentionally in case the newspaper decided to run a short strip. … Continue reading Louie and Bruce 003-2023-0621