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History, Writing and Personal Musings

Category Archives: Conventional & Digital Art

The War in Biafra

The following art is for a book titled: The War in Biafra: Mercenaries, Soldiers, Churches & Scoundrels in the Epic Struggle of Independence, to be published late next year. If you were a participant in the war, or were a witness in any way or form to the conflict, or happened to be in Nigeria [...]

The Art of Map-Making

The maps below were the result of a sort of personal refresher of my Adobe Illustrator skills and were finished on two free days. Since I like my efforts to translate towards something more cogent in the future (or risk feeling really stupid in the future) – in this case, maybe a study on Calvert [...]

Two Perez Women

Mother and Daughter: Two Generations of the Perez Family, North Texas. A Note on the Process: I don’t especially prefer to draw much so this one was by special request. It was composed with some haste on unfamiliar matte and somehow the result looks better on paper than on scanned copy. Anyway, it was difficult [...]

Tintin and The Life of Hergé

Click image to view mid-resolution jpg (1.3 mb) or use the link below for single-page, high-resolution PDF (4 mb) Tintin

Norway July 22 – The Anatomy of an Attack

The U.N. in Africa