Graphic Art. Designed the cover for this vinyl/CD release around photographs by Rick McDonough. The album can be purchased at blondevinyl.bandcamp.com. Also worked on the back cover below as well. The album had a 90s-indie rock inspired sound, so I decided to go the same route for the cover art: minimalist and scene-inspired lettering placement.
Pencil, crayon, digital manipulation, graphic art. This is submission I created for the cover contest for the Daniel Amos album Dig Here The Angel Said. I did not win, but a part of the tip of the angel wing was used for part of the collage in the inner jacket.
Graphic art. Cover art for the pop surf punk band Lifesavers. They provided the painting (Detail of St. Claire by Simone Martini), and I built the cover around it. The album is available at youngearthrecords.bandcamp.com. I also designed the back cover of the jacket:
Watercolor from an original photograph. This is what I found while looking inside an old, large orange oil drum of some kind in the lot of a garbage collection business. This picture makes me think of all of our spiritual searches. We look inside our ‘can’ (our head) for what has been put in there, and then take a ‘snapshot’ of it to share with others. I guess my can was kind of empty that day. This was created in a summer painting course in college – we would go to some location around town on Monday to take pictures, do a one hour photo development that night, pick one to paint the next day, and spend the rest of the week painting it. I saw this huge orange industrial trash can sitting there, walked over to it, looked inside, and found what I knew would be my project for the week.
Picture that I took in a summer painting course while we were looking for subjects to paint – we would go to some location around town on Monday to take pictures, do a one hour photo development that night, pick one to paint the next day, and spend the rest of the week painting it. This is one of many I didn’t paint.
Graphic Design. This was an idea I had for the Dead Artist Syndrome album Kissing Strangers. The band decided to go with a different direction for the cover.
Graphic Art. This was my idea for a remix of L.S. Underground’s PTSD album. The original album was released independently, but I knew there was a remixed version of the audio songs coming on a label. So I thought I would also remix the cover. Of course, the label kept the original cover for the remixed version, but I still think this one is pretty cool. The band still wants to use this version for a vinyl reissue someday if that ever happens. See the original version of the cover at lsunderground.bandcamp.com
Graphic Art. Light/Dark 1 – digital manipulation of a satellite image. I believe this was originally a satellite image of something on the Arabian peninsula. I just keep playing with it until I liked what I saw. I want to get back to this kind of art someday. I also came up with other versions of it:
Light/Dark 5
Graphic Art. A psychedelic rock band, available at thebloodystrummers.bandcamp.com. They had the symbol inside the letters and on the back cover that they wanted incorporated, and the rest was up to me. I went for a groovy retro hard rock look to match the music. The back cover looked like this:
Storage Bin – Watercolor painting from an original photograph. The photograph was taken in Crawford, Texas, a long time before President Bush moved there. It has since been torn down. This picture speaks to me about my life. No matter how rusted and beaten we feel, there is always a Door out and a Ladder down. We just have to find the courage to leave the darkness and find the Ladder. This was created in a summer painting course in college – we would go to some location around town on Monday to take pictures, do a one hour photo development that night, pick one to paint the next day, and spend the rest of the week painting it.
This was the first cover design that I made that was actually used for a project. The album is not available anymore, but the inside art designs are below. I was honestly just looking for different ways to visualize taking back something, and eventually came up with this design.
Change of Season – Watercolor from a picture that popped in my head on day. I remember it was just a flash of the blanket blowing in the window, but it was very symbolic. The window itself represents the a cross. The blanket represents our life. As we come to the cross, our sins are forgiven and turn white. The broken glass represents the barrier between man and God which was shattered by Jesus’ death on the cross. The ugly faded wall is the world that we live in, which God visited as Jesus.
