Older Work – Newspaper illustrations

Portfolio by subject

by medium

pen & ink

oil

All of these images are available as prints or collectable originals.

I worked for a number of years as a staff illustrator for two newspapers. I started the art department at the Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger in the pre-computer 1980s. Things were done quite differently then! Much of my artwork was created in black and white using pencil or pen and ink with Zipatone, an adhesive with various gray patterns. If type was added it was carefully pasted on with a T-square.

A few years later, when I worked at the Palm Beach Post, their color capability made my job more fun. It was there that the first Macintosh computers came along and I embraced it wholeheartedly so my later work also includes some computer generated artwork.

I still have the tearsheets (printed copies) of some of these of these drawings. For some, I only have the tearsheets.