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I make my way as a professional artist living in lovely NJ, working from the attic of my small town mock Tudor home. Among other things.
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Michael Flynn as
The Angriest Bird.
Steve Bannon as
The Thing That Needs To Crawl Back In Its Hole.
Ben Carson as
The Sleeping Leviathan
Kellyanne Conway as
The Plumed Dragon
Chris Christie as
The One That Got Away
Rudolph Guiliani as
The Thing That Ought To
Fly Away By Now
Jeff Sessions as
The White Goblin
Scott Pruitt as
The Toxic Cloud
Tom Price as
The Fallopian Moose
Newt Gingrich as
The Spiteful Sprite
Elaine Chao and Mitch McConnell as
What You Find When
You Drain The Swamp
and Donald Trump as
The Phoenix That Launched
A Thousand Tweets
Katie boasted an impressive pedigree among mythological beasts; her father was a Minotaur, her mother a Satyr. Katie, unfortunately, hit the recessive gene lottery in the pairing.
The Gahzurtz
The Bearded Snickelthorpe
casein on paper, various sizes
Swimmer (shallows), 2016.
oil on canvas, 24 in. x 36 in.
Not revealing much about this one yet, either, but here's a start. I'd like to thank eBay for helping me find just the right period train seat, complete with its original upholstery.
thumbnail, pencil on paper
sketch/value study, colored pencil and gouache on paper
final art, oil on prepared paper
A few new paintings for part one of Johanna Stein's short story, The Iron Cross, to be published in Cricket Magazine.
Oil on paper, various sizes.
Swimmer (Plunge)
Oil on canvas, 8x10 inches. 2016.
Swimmer (Split)
Oil on canvas, 16x20 inches. 2016.
Swimmer (Tilt)
Oil on canvas, 18x24 inches. 2016.
...and while I can't tell you much more than that about the upcoming Bill Harley title, these three little things may happen somewhere in it.
Gouache on paper, 7"x9"
Little Fox Publishing
All pieces gouache on paper, 6x9 inches, commissioned for inclusion in a South Korean ESL (English as a Second Language) edition of the Jack London novel, published by Little Fox.
Swimmer (Stripes), 2015. Oil on Canvas, 20 x 16 inches.
Swimmer (Spectre), 2015. Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 inches.
Swimmer (Cyan), 2015. Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 inches.
Swimmer (Grid), 2015. Gouache on Paper, 8 x 10 inches.
Swimmer (Leviathin), 2015. Gouache on Paper, 7 x10 inches.
Swimmer (Icharus), 2015. Gouache on Paper, 7 x10 inches.
Swimmer (Cloud Chaser), 2015. Gouache on Paper, 7 x 9 inches.
Gouache on paper, 6" x 9". For a Korean ESL edition of Jack London's White Fang, Little Fox Co., Ltd.
No dogs were kicked in the making of these paintings.
Ahh, well that might explain it.
A few more images for
White Fang. All images gouache on paper, 6.25"x9".
Ahh, highlights from the first three chapters of a Jack London classic, retold for an overseas English as a Second Language program; this requires an illustration for every 26 or so lines of text.
And like any good illustration gig, someone gets eaten. Gouache on paper, 6" x 9".
Swimmer 1, 2015. Oil on canvas, 18x24.
Swimmer 3 (granulation) 2015. Oil and wax on drafting film, 14x17.
Swimmer 4 (teal), 2015. Oil on canvas, 16x20.
Swimmer 5 (blue), 2015. Oil on canvas, 16x20.
Swimmer 6 (night), 2015. Oil and wax on canvas, 18x24.
Hey, my upcoming book Dirty Rats? by Darrin Lunde (Charlesbridge) has garnered some friendly press worth sharing.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/darrin-lunde-54167/dirty-rats/
Gustavson joins the rescue operation with close-ups of rats rendered in naturalistic detail but looking more inquisitive than feral, sporting large pink ears and whiskery snouts. Some of the city settings are picturesquely grimy, but there are no dead creatures or images more disturbing than, in one scene, a white lab rat and a researcher in surgical garb locking eyes. On the contrary, another illustration even features a rat leaning in from the edge of the page to peer up at viewers, and a closing portrait gallery of selected rat species is equally fetching.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58089-566-8
Few animals are as maligned as rats, something mammal specialist Lunde knows well. “Dirty rats. Their beady eyes and naked tails make us scream. Eek! Aargh! Yikes!” he writes as a frightened woman in hair curlers tries to sweep rats off her apartment’s fire escape...Gustavson’s typically lush oil paintings do their part to help sway opinions—his sewer rats come across as intelligent, curious, and even adorable.
For an upcoming story in Cricket Magazine, set during the reign of Cicero. Oil on paper, 16" x 19".
Galway Girl, 2014. Oil on canvas, 11" x 14"
Mohor, 2014. Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"
Causeway, 2014. Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"
The Crooked Sisters, 2014. Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"
Untitled (Ireland), 2014. Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"
Untitled 2 (Ireland), 2014. Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"
The Ancestral Tourist, 2014. Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"
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