So there is a thing called Sketch Covers . These are Comic books made with blank book jackets that a collector or fan can get an artist to create their own one of a kind cover art for. It's a great business idea. I bet the publishers make a killing on reprints. I came to the realization that most books actually have blank covers if you take off the book jacket. I started drawing on those blank covers. I feel its a great way to turn a book I would never read into a work of ar

I created my own sketch cards so I can offer drawings on demand for people who insist on buying Above Average Art from me. I like branding myself and I love drawing on small cards with my name, website and a non reproduction blue box printed on them. A sketch card is a blank or branded trading card sized peice of paper that an artist will draw on to different levels of quality. They are collectable, fun and unique. Above is my Above Average Sketch Card in all it's 2.5"x3.5"

No , the American Automobile Association has not started a TIKI offshoot. The AAA! stands for Above Average Art and then I added the word TIKI. I know, so creative . Tiki is a great theme. It has a vibrant history and it's time and cost effective. It's fun to exaggerate features and squish images onto a limiting shape. Limitations drive creativity. The standard size of foam I use is 18 inches x 12 inches tall or wide and 2inches deep, but I can create my Hand Carved  and Hand

Presto is short for Preston and papilio is Latin for butterfly. This is a series of illustrations I'm making to to remember my dead...

What do we all have in common? We all use the bathroom. What place do we all come together in? A bathroom, depending on multiple urinals...

So Dragon Con 2023 was coming up. I new I wouldn't be able to bring my Big Red Snake that I had with me the year before. I couldn't...