I went to Europe when I was a child, and got a chance to visit quite a few museums there. My favorite paintings were, oddly enough, mostly pre-renaissance. I loved the strangely shaped people and their twisted expressions, and all the heavy symbolism they would pack into their paintings.

Nowadays, a portrait is just a portrait. It's about one person, who they are, what they feel, etc. This painting here-
Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, has about a dozen things going on. For instance, the dog that sits at the woman's feet. And the sandals that seem to have been left carelessly on the floor. What does it all mean? We can only guess.

There's something else I like about it- just looking at it takes me to another time.

This is another place I went to when I was younger, in this case much younger. I think about that some times- how many places that I've been to will I return to someday? How many will I not?

I drew this one during my college years, I think. It's of a place near where I grew up in the desert.

When I was in my early teens I wanted to be a comic book artist.

This is one of the dinosaus in Cabazon. The ones from Pee-Wee's big adventure. They're run by a creationist who has a gift shop inside the larger of the dinosaurs that wasn't open when we got there, though I have read that he's not trying to be ironic. Rather he wants to show that humans and dinosaurs once lived together on the planet.
This is the smaller one that used to have a slide going down the tail like in the Flintstones, but it's no longer in use because someone got hurt on it.

Cat food, inspired by restaurants.

Just something I heard in a commercial today. I wonder if it's any good.