A Closer Look

Please browse through this gallery of larger images, accompanied by explanatory notes. The gallery has an interface that allows me to add and edit items without using html. I will continue to maintain this page and its sub-galleries, posting requested items as well as new works in progress.

(besides, there seems to be only a 1-in-10 chance that images placed into the Blogger blog actually display properly in the re-published blog on my own site!)

See Anastasia This Saturday!

If you are in New York City, there is a great opportunity to see Anastasia Khitruk on Saturday, Dec. 9th. Only $25, too! Tell her Scott says Hi from Wisconsin.

Can you see me now?

It appears the image linking works fine everywhere but in Safari on my Mac.
Here's a sentimental favorite, an older painting of my sister's pets, Bullwinkle and Rocky (Rocky is the one getting ready to run for it).:

Experiments in blogging

Still trial-and-errors with blog formatting. Let's see how images carry over:

-- I am putting together a pdf of renderings in graphite and pen & ink. Write me if you want a copy!

Testimonials, Pt.1

D**n it, Jim! I'm an artist not a programmer! Meanwhile, this blog will be the best way for me to add news or other content to the site. So imagine this on the "Things I Forgot to Add to the Site" page:

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"I am writing today to thank you for the great creative work you did on the logo for Career Works Fox Valley. After listening to the description of what I wanted to convey, you were able to create something that speaks to optimism, sensibility and the promise of a better tomorrow.

I have shared your images with a number of clients, prospects and business associates and they all unanimously agree that this art work carries the right message. I promise you that this will be the basis of all of my marketing and collateral material.

Thank you so much for being a great listener and a creative genius. I hope too, that this letter might become a recommendation in your portfolio and I would also be pleased to be a reference for your work."

Sincerely,
Tom Sather
Career Works Fox Valley
www.cwfv.com

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"Due to the creativity, flexibility, and patience Scott exhibited throughout the design process, we have the perfect image to represent our business."

Andrea Hogan
Home Things!
www.homethings.biz

Well, we can draw....

[Welcome to my blog! If you watch a lot of movies, most of it should make sense. I tend to lapse into movie quotes, literary and pop culture references (or whatever the kids are into these days with the big pants and the walk-mans and the break dancing and the I-don't-know-what). If I seem to jump around from one topic to another, it's because I'm making it up as I go along, and I advise you to approach life in the same fashion. And besides, I wasn't at the computer the whole time. Read a book! But he to-day that watches old tapes of Mystery Science Theater with me, shall be my brother, be he ne'er so vile,....]

When job hunting, you may be advised to fit in, to find out what is available and say "I can do that, too." But when starting a business, you are better off defining what makes you different -- what do you offer that the others don't? After exchanging a few sidelong glances with my fellow citizens of Santa Poco, I was ready to offer, "We can sew!" But then it became clear: WE CAN DRAW!

That is what this business of mine will offer that a graphic designer may not: I can draw and paint. So I can enjoy working WITH graphic designers and marketers and web developers. And I hope that this will become a useful forum for creative, um, stuff (as soon as I learn how to work the blogger thinger better).

Go For It! (-- I mean, I can always take this down later, right?)

My first blog entry! It seems so "committal;" maybe I should stay to the message boards, and the comfortable anonymity of screen names like Torgo and Guy Habanero. No, I'm definitely going to do this -- if that's okay.

I first want to acknowledge the writer who has most inspired me lately:
John Stanko. His blog is at http://www.johnstanko.us/
and it will be a permanent link elsewhere on this page,
once I get around to customizing it.

Then another, less contemporary guy named Melville:
"...But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God -- so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!"

[If you have no need for functioning eyesight, you can read Moby Dick online at, among other places, http://www.electronpress.com/freebooks2/moby_dick.pdf
(Chapter 23 -- The Lee Shore)]

The adventure begins....