Style / medium: digital, pencil, oil, acrylic, watercolor



Work / products: acrylic, character design, children, cartoons, editorial, fine art, limited editions, people, toys/games, watercolor, advertising, animals, digital, humorous, sci-fi, fantasy, licensed characters, architectural, medical, oil, photorealistic, portrait, caricatures, storyboards, conceptual, stylized figures, maps, photorealistic, technical





I’m a painter, designer, writer and muralist with twenty years of experience. I specialize in intercultural communication. I have extensive experience in the Islamic world and Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, India) and am sensitive to imagery, color and design that speak to multiple audiences. I’m fast, inventive, engaging and articulate. I speak fluent Malay.



I work in publishing, advertising, web and film. My clients range from book and magazine publishers to product manufacturers to architectural firms, to print and web designers. I create licensed characters. I make maps, from Olde World pen-and-ink to 3-D digital. I design corporate identity packages. Mostly, paint: my style ranges from deadpan realism to caricature to cartoon, depending on the needs of the job. Subject matter ranges from historical reconstruction to conceptual futurism, from paleontology to science fiction.



I’m literate. I’m the author/illustrator of Dangerous Planet: Natural Disasters that Changed History (2003) and Outbreak: Plagues that Changed History (2005), both published by Crown.



I’m a muralist. I’ve created over two hundred feet of murals for Children’s Hospital, Seattle including lobby of the Janet Sinegal Patient Care Center and the atrium of the Melinda Gates Ambulatory Care Center, in oil on canvas and sand-carved glass panels.



I’m an educator. I’ve been a creative consultant to international advertising agencies in Malaysia and Indonesia and have taught visual communication at the University of Delaware, University of the Arts, University of Pittsburgh. I’ve guest lectured on art, design and architecture at college campuses across North America.



I’ve been a Fulbright fellow and a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs. I’ve been honored by the Society of Illustrators of New York and Los Angeles.




I’ve been called “a master of science fiction” by the Christian Science Monitor , “the stuff of nightmares” by the Denver Post , “irksomely left wing” by The Wall Street Journal , and “fascinating,” by the New York Times .