I recently posted a short animation on my Instagram feed and several friends asked me how I made it. In this video, I give an overview of the process. I created almost all of it on my iPad mini. I used Procreate for the animation, and...
This is my talk on my creative process that I presented to about 20 people at the Art Container at Playland at 43rd on Feb 8, 2020. The talk covers some of the tools I use to maintain focus and to stay inspired as I...
I'm happy to announce that I have a new art show called Sunset In Motion and it is currently at the Art Container at Playland at 43rd Avenue. It features several art pieces that I developed over the last 8 months. The show is open...
Back in the late 1970's I inherited a Super 8 film camera from my granddad. He used it for home movies and I ended up make a few home movies with it as well. But one feature of the camera that caught my eye was...
I've always been intrigued about bats flying around at twilight and catching insects. We see them every evening on our fishing trips to lakes in Northern California. On one trip I decided to see if I could film them with the help of night vision...
Here is the very first time I attempted to cast for herring in San Francisco Bay and cook them. I only caught one, but I was pretty excited nonetheless! A fellow angler gave me a few more and I was able to have a couple...
My first automata. It's based on Paul Spooner's 'San Francisco and the San Andreas Fault' which is pictured in Rodney Peppé's automata book on page 133. The trickiest part I think was making the springs. I used Darice memory wire. 3.5 minutes ...
I print my own railroad backdrops from images that I google. Here I show roughly how I do it. My railroad is based on scenery in Northern California, so I google well known landmarks around the Bay Area for photos. I make heavy use of the...
When I built the floor to ceiling canyon on the HO-scale Redwoods and Railroad in 1997, I had some friends come over and help apply the plaster. To make the canyon, I roughed out the shape of the hills and valleys using strips of cardboard....
One of my favorite pastimes is to go fishing early in the morning at the beach at Crissy Field. I try to go at least twice a week before work during the spring and summer. One day I noticed a bunch of plastic litter up above...
In this 4 minute video I show how I built a ferry slip headwork for my Redwoods and Pacific Railroad. Even though the tracks of the ferry slip end at a wall I wanted something more than just a backdrop to indicate the structure. I...
Railroad equipment rarely looks brand new in real life, so I like to weather my trains to give them that well worn look. In this video, my daughter and I weather a couple of Bachmann Pacific Fruit Express (PFE) Reefers. In real life, the PFE...
Those annoying mice! A mouse ate all my HO-scale pumpkins, so I painted some more and fixed up the pumpkin patch. 3.5 minutes. Enjoy! ...