Call it a niche hobby — designing emblems or marks for swimmers' grand endeavors. I created one for Annabel's English Channel cr...

This art always left me embarrassed, and I never had cause to show it — except for self-flagellation. Which I'm not above. Bu...

Kill fee : |kil fē| noun. Payment made to a creative for work done but not used. Such ancient ruins, these. No chronicle of their colla...

Kill fee : |kil fē| noun. Payment made to a creative for work done but not used. Stuff happens. Some projects die before their time...

(Another baseball post. Best move along. It's only fair: I ignored your World Cup. Who won? Never mind.) Now what? What now? D...

Different time, same old thorny issues … this illustration says three things: (1) the digital iteration is locked away in a storage device...

Nothing I do ever comes whole and complete and original from my brow, of course, like Zeus, or even Seuss. (Didja know Dr. Seuss pronoun...

please don't take a picture! It's been a bad day. Please!* For a story about counteracting the Murphy's Law of restauran...

Draw a picture in pencil, in this case for a story on insurance and the result of not having enough. Photocopy it onto standard m...

A Sanjay Patel self-portrait Let us now praise Sanjay Patel . It's long overdue. All you need to stop me cold is bobble a bauble o...

OK, just gonna post this, warts and all — one of my favorite attempts at digital art, but also one of my biggest disappointments. Like th...

You wouldn't see much of this work outside of this blog. These pieces became the fallout of one of those pesky paradigm shifts. ...