Published Single Images

Thanks to the people at From Whispers to Roars in Denver for publishing this enamel miniature in their Tortured Artist’s Issue, Volume 6, Issue 1 March 2024.

Thanks to the editors of The Red Noise Collective for publishing this digital painting in the Summer 2023 issue of Artifact.

Thanks to the editors for accepting this acrylic painting for appearance in the July 2023 edition of Wild Roof Journal.

This watercolor placed as a finalist in the 2023 Rigel Contest sponsored by Sunspot Lit. Thanks to LC and all the editors.

Many thanks to Laine Cunnigham and the other editors at Sunspot Literature for accepting this acrylic painting as a finalist in their recent 2022 Rigel Contest.

Thanks to the editors at Fauxmoir Review for acepting this acrylic portrait for inclusion in Issue 2, Spring 2022.

Thanks to the editors at Denver’s From Whispers to Roars who selected this piece as the top art entry in their 2021 Climax Edition, available in mid-March 2022.

Thanks to the editors at The Closed Eye Open for selecting this piece as the back cover for their sixth issue that appeared in February 2022.

Thanks to the editors of Harbor Review for accepting this digital painting for their winter 2022 issue.

Thanks to the editors of Oyster River Pages for selecting this digital piece for inclusion in their special celebration of sensuality Breaking of Bread issue 5.2 January 2022.

A smaller version of this 18x24 watercolor appears in Issue 100, Fall 2021, of Burningword Literary Journal. Thanks to Erik Deely and the other editors for keeping such a vital publication going for over 20 years.

Thanks to Laine Cunningham at Sunspot Literary Journal for selecting this watercolor as a runner-up in their Summer 2021 Rigel Contest. Named after the brightest star in the Orion constellation, the competition identified this work as an outlier of significance.

Here’s a single panel piece combining tangible watercolors with text. I love to explore the potential and interaction of both kinds of media operating in the same space, and see this as an illustrated prose poem. It’s been accepted for print appearance in the Spring 2021 issue of THE NEW PLAINS REVIEW, running since 1986 through the University of Central Oklahoma.

This digital portrait earned an Honorable Mention, placing among the top ten entries in the Annual Cover Art Contest of DEFUNKT MAGAZINE, an independent journal out of Texas. While the work didn’t make it into the print edition, it will soon appear in Issue 9 of their online edition.

Thanks to the editors of TINY SPOON magazine for accepting this and the following piece for publication in issue 7, summer of 2021. Chris, Stephanie, Laurie and Sam are open to experimental work, and these are from my ongoing series entitled People Who Fell Through the Cracks.

Thanks to the editors of RUBBERTOP REVIEW out of the University of Akron for accepting this one for publication later in the summer of 2021.

This experimental watercolor has been accepted for appearance in the upcoming special “Brave New World” themed edition of THE CLOSED EYE OPEN, scheduled for release later this summer. The subtitle of this ambitious online journal reads “An Exploration of Consciousness.”

Thanks to LC and the other editors at SUNSPOT LITERARY JOURNAL for accepting this image of my tangible painting (oil and enamel on canvas, 16x20) as THE COVER ART for their Spring 2021 issue.

Thanks to Hank Stanton at THE RAW ART REVIEW for accepting this as the COVER ART for their Fall 2020 Issue.

This and the following image are from my Smoking Gunslinger series. Thanks again to Hank Stanton at THE RAW ART REVIEW for publishing these in the Fall 2020 Journal.

And, yes, an image of this tangible oil painting at last finds a home in the Fall 2020 issue of THE RAW ART REVIEW.

Thanks to the editors at the PEAUXDUNQUE REVIEW (that specializes in celebrating the small and overlooked instants that comprise our lives) who accepted this one for print appearance later in the summer of 2021.

After several rejections, this fun piece has finally found a good home at OXMAG in Issue 45, the February 2021. They specialize in the “sticky, the raw, and the truthful.” Thanks again to Rachel and the other editors for motivating me to return to this series of Odd Ball Players.

Thanks to Erik and the other editors at BURNINGWORD who accepted this experimental hybrid piece for inclusion in the January 2021 issue of their fine and long-running journal.

This watercolor and ink piece appears in the HARBOR REVIEW Issue 6, Winter 2021. Thanks again to the editors.

Thanks to Aaron at the WILD ROOF JOURNAL for accepting this piece in their sixth issue, January 2021.

This piece appears in the December 2020 Issue of THE SHEEPSHEAD REVIEW a journal of art and literature from the University of Wisconsin Green Bay that’s been around in one form or another since 1975.

This piece has appears in the August 2020 issue of OYSTER RIVER PAGES, an independent literary and artistic collective united by a love for (among other things) the Susquehanna River. I live less than a half mile from a section of the West Branch and sometimes I’m lucky enough to hear its ancient songs…

Thanks to the editors at From WHISPERS TO ROARS for accepting a jpg of this tangible oil and canvas painting in their Monster Issue of Summer 2020.

This hybrid piece appears online in From Whispers to Roars, a Denver-based ‘zine, “Quarantine Tales Week 7.”

This one was accepted by THIN AIR MAGAZINE out of the University of Northern Arizona. You have to love a place who says in their ABOUT section, “Twenty six years after the first issue, we still can’t forget these words from our founders: “All too often, the literary world takes itself too seriously […] Thin Air hopes to change that.”

This one appears The TOHO JOURNAL, Volume 2, Issue 1, Summer 2020, that explores the enduring concept of duality.

This one appears in the summer 2020 issue of ALCHEMY Literary Journal out of Portland, OR and runs as a double page spread on pages 68-69.

This and the following two pieces appear in the Hole in the Head Review Volume 1 number 3, summer 2020.

This and the following “Incan Star Priest” appear in RAMBLR Magazine Issue 3 Summer 2020, out of the Bay Area of San Francisco, available online. Again, I’m grateful for the vital work that independent arts organizations like this one continue to do. Otherwise, we’re all just voices in the wilderness, right?.

This image/text piece appears along with several other such pieces in the handsome color insert section of JELLY BUCKET 10 (an old regional slang term for a lunch pail), the journal of Eastern Kentucky University Bluegrass Writer’s Studio. (We all need more people like her these days, right?)

WILD ROOF JOURNAL is a new magazine that appeared in February 2020. The editors favor “unique perspectives and experimentation“ in their pieces and remain strongly grounded to the power of the wilderness and the earth. In addition to this piece, they also accepted the accompanying “Too Many People Always Needing His Help” and “Another Epic Battle at Sea” for their inaugural issue.

When the editors of THE ATHENA REVIEW accepted this piece for their Valentine’s Day issue, they also asked for a caption. So I looked at the piece, closed my eyes, and heard:

Elise and Billie knew there were at least as many ways to keep their romance alive as muscles in the human body.”

The cover image of my instrumental music album I also submitted to The CLIMAX (2020 Volume 2) a journal produced by From Whispers to Roars, an vibrant independent arts and literature organization out of Denver, Colorado. It won the art category prize for this edition, and the editors also made a great decision pairing it with a compelling story by Jody Mason entitled “Crumble to the Sea”—that synergy thing, again.

This piece and the one immediately following (“A thousand furious strokes”) appear (in gray-scale versions) in TAKE A STAND: Artists Against Hate, an anthology published in January 2020 by Raven Chronicles. It’s a book of substance and significance that explores the ongoing legacy of hatred in America and features works by 53 artists and 117 writers that portray how the human spirit continues to rise despite the violence and brutality of the powers that be. Highly recommended and available on Amazon.

The editors also asked for an artist statement and this is what I hear:

She has always sensed that another, stronger self resides inside her. As that one now kicks her way free from all the darkness and rises graceful and fluid into the light, she sees everything much more clearly.

The Athena Review. Breakthrough Issue January 2020.

This one shows up in the January 5, 2020 issue of Buningword Literary Journal, a handsome and intelligent quaterly. Its original title was “The Ignominious Defeat of the Jade King.”

This one shows up in Volume 3 Issue No. 2 December 19, 2019 of the online zine the New Southern Fugitives.

This one shows up in the Fall 2019 print edition of the Toho Journal out of Philadelphia. A lot of good people are working in many creative ways there and I wish them continued success.

And this one shows up in the inaugural Issue of the Toho Journal Online—paired with a striking and powerful poem by Mikhayla Robinson.

This is a fun one that I heard in the summer of 2019 was accepted for publication in print issue #2 of Fishfood Magazine—their Bananas Issue, of course!—which I’m thinking is still in production….

This appeared in the Zoetic Press/Non-Binary Review Issue #21 in May of 2019. It was a special issue dedicated to the works of HG Wells, and illustrates the opening paragraphs of Chapter 9 in his The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Sadly, this was the last issue of this ambitious publication.

Online publication in Sunspot Literary Journal volume 1 Issue no. 2 Summer 2019.

Its other title is “Courage” and as such is also part of a series entitled “A Dozen Admirable Qualities” that is still looking for a home. Contact me if you’re interested…

This one appears in the Volume 2, April 6, 2019 issue of the Silver Needle Press—a compelling and attractive print publication.

She shows up for the first time in print the Stonecoast Review Literary Arts Journal Issue 11, Summer 2019—a publication edited by very talented and conscientious MFA students enrolled in the University of Southern Maine.

This one showed up in Talking Writing Magazine—whose important mission is “to lead the discussion about why writing matters in the digital age.”

The editors at Burningword did a nice job pairing this piece with Andy Posner’s striking poem “In Polite Society” in Issue #90, April 2019. Something synergystic goes on there…

This and the following image were my first international publications—accepted and distributed by the adventurous editors at Nunum magazine in New Brunswick, Canada.

(They define “nunum,” by the way, as a moment of stillness that leads to a reflective state—what can happen when you blend flash fiction and art, right? )

Spring 2019 Issue 2 Volume 1.

Scott Spearly requested some covers for his music project in 2017 and selected these as the front and back. His wild Americana originals can be heard and purchased here.

This one and the following show up in Hoot Review—as two of their word/image postcards…