ARTISTIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Two ink drawings selected to join the permanent collection of the United States Coast Guard art collection in 2024.
- 21 House and/or Business painted portraits.
- 1770 pieces of art on Instagram, @artofctupa and over 20 designs on teepublic.com.
- Thirteen self-published books on Amazon.
- Two illustrated movie reviews published in ScaryMonsters Magazine.
- Art exhibited at The Nave Museum, Texana Arts, and the Victoria Public Library.
- My watercolor work is routinely featured in Powerlineman Magazine.
- Several illustrated food reviews on Houston Food Finders and one in the Houston Chronicle.
- Illustrated to cover and fourteen interior illustrations for the Home Video Humor book published by Lunchmeat Press, Illustrated Meet Sister Mary Margaret children’s book for OSV Press; three, Holey Moleys children’s books for Good and True Media; Brother Jude children’s book published by the Abbey of the Genesee, NY; three, The Monk’s children’s books for Saint Benedict Press; The Naughty List published by Karate Petshop; and five digital children’s books for the publisher Farfaria.
- Several illustrated Twilight Zone reviews published in Dimensions of Imagination.
- Three monthly illustrations (for a total of twelve months) for the OSV Kids Magazine published by OSV Press.
- Over 50 illustrations for Dandyline Games, and 4 illustrations for Per Aspera Games.
- Featured in an issue of The Australia Times portrait magazine, as well as supplied
illustrations for two of their published books. - Created and produced two Youtube Channels; one about drawing and one about gaming with my son.
- Wrote and illustrated a sketch blog titled Sketching Around Town for our local newspaper; The Victoria Advocate.
- Produced art for seven wine labels for Joadja Estate in Australia.
- Created illustrated instructions for the Firebox Stove; Fireboxstove.com.
- Wrote a family/travel blog and had articles published on Forgeoverland.com as well as Famousparenting.com and Outdoorfamiliesonline.com
- Several illustrations published in the MacIntyre Gazette; Texas, Queensland, AU.
- Twice featured in the local newspaper.
- Spoke at the local Retired Teachers Association meeting and Eleanor Brackenridge Literary Book Club meeting.
- In 2015 I was part of a team that worked on a graphic novel called Monster Elementary that won a gold medal in the Independent Book Publishers Awards. I have also completed an 8-page story for Monster Elementary V.2, which won a bronze medal.
- Worked on several independent comic projects and did close to a hundred commission paintings for individuals and small press companies around the country and the world.