...all of the stuff I posted is from well over 10 years ago and more.

There are other works that go back to the early 1970s, but I don't have digital images of those.

For the last 33 years I have been working for a screen printing company.

That takes up a fair amount of my time, but it is guaranteed income on a regular basis.

Since right before the pandemic, I have been working from my home office, doing color separations and pre-production for whatever projects they have coming through the factory.

From 1984-2010, I occasionally did costume graphic design and application for the entertainment industry.

I worked on costume graphics for Madonna live performances, 1984 & 2001.

And if you've seen any of the following movies, you've seen my work:

Body Rock (a Lorenzo Lamas break dance movie hardly anybody saw, 1984)
Space Jam
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar
The Phantom (Billy Zane movie)
Enemy Of The State
Batman & Robin
The Doors
The Flintstones
The Hannah Montana Movie
Tales From The Crypt (1 episode of the TV show)
...and others I don't recall at the moment.

I also used to be a musician/engineer/producer.

The last music I released was in 2019, "Moment of Silence (Duet)" by Green Sparkle Frog.

This tune features Grammy Award winner Lonnie Park on keyboards/synthesizers.

The band broke up, guitarist moved to Georgia, that was the end of that.

Lastly, I remain attached to the art world by collecting art, mostly by the artist known as Germs, who is in the permanent collection of The Cheech Marin Center For Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside CA.

I sometimes post images of his work in the DU Artists Group, you may have seen some of those.

Here's a June 2023 shot of my "gallery" in a converted Victorian era garage:



It is much more cluttered with art now, kinda like a warehouse.

though I also noticed how similar the colors in "Watches" and "Fine Dining At The Speed Of Light" are. Love looking at them together, even though you did such different things with those colors. It's a great palette.

I remember discussing your music before, too.

You're very talented.

...you're too kind.

Who knows how things would have gone if I had not dropped out of art school in the mid-70s?

I couldn't wait to get out of Chicago and get to Los Angeles!

And thanks for your relentless defense of REAL art vs. AI!

so glad that artists as famous as Paul McCartney are speaking out.

Not being "kind" - being honest. I don't know how anyone could look at (or listen to) those samples of your work and not be struck by the talent and creativity.



I don't think you needed more years of art school. You were pulled in different artistic directions in LA, but were creative in those, too.

"Who knows how things would have gone?" can be a painful question. Especially when you've been told how much talent you have, and had some success and recognition (that's quite a list of films!), and still didn't get as much recognition and success as others believed you should have had. Life can throw monkey wrenches in plans. It might be a necessary day job, like yours, that leaves limited time and energy for creative pursuits. It might be something like caregiving, which I discovered could be 24/7, exhausting, and a much longer-term necessity than expected.

You've probably heard lots of such stories in LA. Same with New York, where I saw what my two actress-singer-dancer roommates went through. Art is so important, but it can be very hard.

And now AI will make it much harder, if people don't reject AI as a substitute for real art. If they fall into the trap of letting billionaire tech bros and venture capitalists rip off our culture and sell it back to us via AI.

But there's still some hope.

And that goes for everyone who's creative, no matter their age.

Even if you're now saying you "used to do art" you can always reactivate those skills and creativity. I hope you will.

The world can always use more real art, from real artists.