Adventures in Fine Arts (ePub)

Here is a representative sampling of work I produced while pursuing a bachelor of fine arts degree at the College for Creative Studies. You may find a substantial portion of it derivative, but here and there you may also spot original thought making an unexpected appearance when you least expect it. I was fortunate enough to discover several lines of creative and artistic development in the fields of drawing, sculpture, and painting that are proving viable even to this day.

I started creating art early inspired by Walt Disney and Hop-Along Cassidy as well as Norman Rockwell. What I knew of Titian, Rafael, Da Vinci, and Michelangelo, I would encounter from plates in my mother’s big red Catholic Bible. This was serious stuff, but the agonies of Christ proved too adult for a young boy just entering the first grade. The images of John Henry in illustrations created by James Daughtery were cathartic enough for someone trying to keep from being sent back to kindergarten for rowdy behavior.

At any rate, I became enamored of the work of Jack Kirby as I could sense even in junior high school that he was borrowing largely from such great masters as mentioned above. He brought such a sculptural gravitas into his work as a comic book illustrator that the Kids of Survival later got his stuff into the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. I also grew up admiring the work of Charles White and, when taking a break from driving for City Cab, would drop into the Detroit Institute of Arts to view an exhibit of work by Jacob Lawrence or Picasso.

I started drawing Marvel Comics panel for panel in Joy Junior High School. I attempted to master that art in my late twenties and did also sorts of fan art after that, including storyboards for an imagined Black Panther movie. Eventually, I took a correspondence course with art instruction schools in order to improve and upgrade my drawing and painting abilities to a professional level.

I met Dan Lawless at a comic book

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