This is the house my dad designed in Orinda, CA in 1956 

 A Barn in Martinez - painted in 1954

 A Still Life with People

 My Dad always did something special at the front door for Christmas

 This was 1962

 This impressionistic style painting of his was our Aunt Rosie's Ranch in Martinez, CA & was painted in the early 50's... I added the Buick Christmas tree Ornament !

  These were clay mosaics he carved in 1958

 Christmas Pajamas & Dad's Front Door Decorations - 1958 & 59 !

 Here we are a few years later in 1984 !       

 so...I guess I settled on Pen & Ink or just a plain ol' pencil as my favorite medium.  I drew these first sketches in 1998 when my son Patrick was  interested in drawing...we would each work on something before bed time.  I found these Piggy pics in one of his books & did my  own versions of 'em ! 

 The rest are drawn from my own "fertile" imagination...

 These are cartoons I made for my Masters in Public Health Oral Exam in Hawaii in 1976.  I also dressed up like Groucho in "Horsefeathers" & threw a few barbs at the faculty...all in fun of course...well, I graduated as usual without honors  !

 I guess it shows how I felt growing up feeling the pressures of parents & school.  My bum had felt the sting of paddling on many occasions by the time I graduated from 8th grade !  That's when teachers & principals were allowed to administer that kind of punishment !  

 Turning the Screws... 

  A pair of songs from my Kidz Music Album - The Magic is in You  

 And now for something a little bigger...

    Growing up with comic books & cartoons from Disney & Warner Bros. I was naturally drawn into "line art drawing" ! 
   I was especially wowed with Mort Drucker & "the usual gang of idiots" from Mad Magazine.  For a while there I was 
  constantly drawing the Don Martin characters on everything !  (his weren't as hard as Drucker's !)  It amazed me how
  a few well placed lines could convey emotions & action !   So I kept plugging away & this is what I have to show for it
  ...this is my "arty" side !  

 This is some sort of demonstration of "knowing" a health related behavior & actually "doing" it in real life...
 the guy needs some sort of "Bridge" to help him !  

This was taken from a panel of cartoons which I did to advertise my kidz music album

The Magic is in You  - "Take a Look" was to encourage reading !  

 This is the guy who wandered around planting apple seeds !

   Ah, yes...And now about those Cholomondleys... 

The inspiration for the Cholmondleys came from the Monty Python record - "Not this Record !"  My  sister Michele was visiting me in Hawaii after graduating from the UC Santa Cruz Drama Dept. in 1981 & my girlfriend Leslie bestowed this life changing record upon us...With our flair for stodgy British accents & our devoted altruism we quickly invented "England's  Most Do-Gooding-est Couple" - Smedley & Edna Cholmondley !  Smed  created brilliant inventions that would benefit mankind & Edna dubbed herself the "Eternal Optometrist" for her unwavering faith in humanity.  Actually, she became the "Queen of Malaprops" when she was in 5th grade & announced  that, "Magellan had 'circumsized' the world"...our mother Dee  suggested  "circumnavigated" in it's place...Michele, I mean Edna, has not slowed down one bit & continues to reek havoc on the English language with her malaprops & mispronunciations !

  These are "thumbnail" sketches without all those messy thumbnails !   

   This was a T-Shirt I designed for Dee Chapon's "Partners in Health" Group

 A sign I made for Dee's office ...  That's Dee & Me in '83 !

 If you can tell me the name of the song here...I'll send you a free album from Tropical Nites with 23 songs on it !  note: the last note is a clunker !   I designed this logo for  biz cards, T-shirts & our bowling team shirts...well, we talked about getting a team together !

 The Computones cartoons were drawn to remember certain "lessons" that we learned while traveling down the musical road of life...in Ka'a'awa-land,  Hawaii - 1985-1988 

 This is poster I made for the "White Stallion Band" in 1979...I played guitar & sang out at a fun little road house in Ewa Beach ! 

 My entry into the political cartooning realm...1992 !

 What is it with my fascination of Pigs ?

 Fun with circles...pen & ink...what do you see ?