Before you think I'm getting too sentimental in my old age with my postings, here's a pretty splash page from 1942 by Charles Biro ...

Here's an old chestnut . . . roasting on an open fire? By now it seems like every man, woman and chile in the world must have seen ...

Holiday comic covers like this one by Daan Jippes are so appealing to the kid in me. And it's a good reminder that now's the time t...

Comic book artists have an undeniable talent for telling expansive stories in confined areas. Imagine putting all this action into two smal...

I've only recently discovered the new Mickey Mouse animated shorts for TV.  I think they're pretty cool, in their own way.  I...

Portraits! I paint portraits! If anyone would like to commission a portrait of a special someone (and that could be you, by definition), no...

How often do we get to see the Christ Child AS a child, not a newborn? Not that often. Margaret Tarrant 

Knud Andreassen Baade  Scene from the Era of Norwegian Sagas  — 1850

Have you ever thought much about 'automatic writing'? Otherwise known as psychography, it's writing 'which the writer cla...

Boy, here's a dream I haven't had in a couple of weeks. Moritz Stifter — Allegory of Dream

Under the sea sets always make a great location for fantasy drama. William Shackleton

I'm a sucker for images that have some sort of glow in them. Charles Courtney Curran — 1913

What would life be without fantasy? It would be a textbook. Charles Courtney Curran — circa early xxth century

This is one of those paintings that inspires the 'What th'--!!' segment of my imagination. Not your Thomas Moran landscape. Mo...

A  beautiful low chroma portrait painting of Mme Mucha, lovingly immortalized by Alphonse Mucha.

Thoughtful, balanced words of a foremost scientist. Image of the Abell Cluster of Galaxies

Dedicated to all my painter friends—a very attractive Allegory of Painting. Remember, fat over lean . . .  or is it . . . whatever. P...

I'm starting to cross-post some images between here and Facebook, thinking people may be of two different audiences, with a little over...

Even before 'officially' publishing the first issue of Pictorial Arts Journal , we're nailing down the first sub-publication ...