Single Images — Tin Can Sims

He knew some things the rest of us didn't (Copy)

He knew some things the rest of us didn't
acrylic on canvas board

(Oyster River Pages Fall 2025)

Mourning rituals
multimedia

(Blood Tree Literature Issue 15)

What exactly am I looking at here, huh?
watercolor on paper

( Closed Eye Open issue XII )

Love or something like it
watercolor on paper

(Closed Eye Open Issue XII)

Blood & sun & steel, again
acrylic on paper

(Sunspot Literature Fall 2024)

Lastborn Son--Suckling
multimedia on canvas

(Sunspot Literature Fall 2024)

Granny got a little souvenir
mutimedia on paper

(The Exposition Review POP! issue summer 2024. )

Kiddies sure dig the ride
multimedia on canvas

(Exposition Review summer 2024)

One tough fella
multimedia on paper

(Exposition Review summer 2024)

Another recipe from the alien cookbook
watercolor on paper

(Burningword July 2024)

Johnny was an outlaw

watercolor on paper

(Red Ogre Review #23 March 2024)

Monk sees moth
oil on paper

(From Whispers to Roars March 2024)

Somewhere, somehow on some beach
digital painting

(The Red Noise Collective Summer 2023 issue of Artifact.)

Duststorms
acrylic on paper

(Wild Roof Journal Journal July 2023)

Fishing for her children
watercolor on paper

finalist in the Rigel Contest Sunspot Literature 2023

Being as One
acrylic on canvas

(finalist in the Rigel Contest Sunspot Literature 2022)

Divorce #1
acrylic on cardboard

(Fauxmoir Review Issue 2, Spring 2022.)

Just another face in the crowd
watercolor on paper

(Whispers to Roars Climax Edition, March 2022)

Striding toward the light
watercolor on paper

(The Closed Eye Open February 2022)

Mandan Vision #1
digital painting

(Harbor Review winter 2022)

Right There
digital painting

(Oyster River Pages January 2022)

Smoking prison ghost
watercolor on paper

(Burningword Issue 100, Fall 2021)

Although a superb dancer, Marjorie preferred smoking
watercolor on paper

(Runner-up in the Rigel Contest Sunspot Literature 2022)

And then they were there
multimedia

(The New Plains Review Spring 2021)

Creepy Ludwig encounters a mirror for the first and last time

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.

People like missus mcgillicuddy and her little dog skiff

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.

The gunslinger's dream rev

To hell with his poor mother's back, he was going to step on the cracks anyway

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.

He woke up all right but then he heard a sound

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.”

Learning to make fire after the meteor strikes

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.

Learning to scream beneath the mask

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

Smoking gunslinger and blue do a victory dance

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.

Smoking gunslinger's last butt before he hits the hay

Ginger prison

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

C'mere li'l fella, I'm not going to hurt you

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.

Say what you want about the guy, but he sure had a killer fastball

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.

Pregnant tree nymph

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.

Hitcher on the Rez just after dawn

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

Tracking by scent

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

Banished from the tribe for plenty good reason

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.

Everybody's looking for some kinda goddess

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…

All the wicked ghosts in hell and then some

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.

The deep insides of tomorrow remain unknown

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

This one was accepted by the PENN REVIEW, the literary journal of the University of Pennsylvania that has been in existence (in one guise or another) since the 1950’s and has published writing by such notables as e.e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, and Allen Ginsberg. They published their 50th issue last year, and I feel honored that the piece made it through their demanding “tiered process” review, since they have a 1% acceptance rate.

Sleeping off another one out in the field behind the house

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.”

Coming this close to understanding the other

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

Too many desert highways

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.

He kept cogitating but he couldn't find any way out

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

(Who's) Catching the baby?

Hippie chick cleaning bong

Birth of another moon baby

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?.

Incan star priest

She had a dreaming eye that most agreed was strong

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?)

He’d seen some things happening in his backyard that forever changed him

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.

Another epic battle at sea

Too many people always needing his help

The sneaky kitty game they liked to play

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.”

Where the waters never reach

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.

Thinking about quitting

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.

A thousand furious strokes

Blue-eyed redhead swimming into consciousness

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.

Jade king

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.”

With the blessings of their ancestors

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

A hunt for the storytellers

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.

The hidden costs of organ donation

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

Bananas in psychotherapy

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….

The thing in the forest

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.

He promised her he'd take everything with him when he left and he did

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…

Blonde mermaid looking for ashtray on bedroom dresser

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

Tat #1

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.

Hello you said

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

Blood moon from back of war pony

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…

Stop! Please don't eat your little buddies

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.

What they saw through the cabin window

Pull the Plug

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.

Little cicero hears the wagons

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

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