flux biota.

Mudd and his sister, Bear.

So, here I sit on a carpeted floor in Muscatine, Iowa. I have a minor stomach ache...my father is also enjoying the same ailment so I hope ...

CONGRADUATIONS TO MY BROTHER GEOFF!  Geoff just graduated from North Eastern Illinois University with a degree in communications (on Decem...

I went thrifting at lunch and found this bad boy.  I'm kind of embarrassed that I spent 3 bucks on the damn thing but, ya know, #YOLO ...

"black bird"

"Snake Nest Earth Mass (tentative title)" 15 X 13, gouache on paper, 2012. my desk with image references.  I've been ...

smashed penny from greenmama!   thanks, Carmers! It was a busy weekend but I managed to get a lot of painting done.  I've cropped ...

I bought some coins.  Check out what the shop owner wrote on the coin holders.  Apparently I didn't choose coins very wisely.  POOR! O...

eagle effigy piece. A few weeks ago Kyle and I went to an antique store in Oskaloosa during our lunch break.  I wasn't looking fo...

Woot Woot.  Not to be repetitive...but I love professional photographers.  

  A new photo of a previously photographed painting.  I LOVE MY PHOTOGRAPHER!!!

Hey, guys.  I posted this painting awhile ago but the new photograph looks so NICE that I thought I'd post it twice.  I'm so happy...

"Marysville." approx. 22 X 18, gouache on paper, 2012.

"untitled (as of today), approx 15 X 20, gouache on paper, 2012. As promised, here is one of the pieces I've recently completed...

 Update 10-31-12  : Happy Halloween.  Also, taking the paintings to a professional photographer today!  Friends, Ok, super excited over ...

Found some nice Brachiopods and a killer horned coral over the weekend (top right, it's segmented and huge, totally excellent).  The d...

Left to Right and top to bottom. 1.  A branched coral fossil.  I happened to see it on the bank of the creek while I was falling down a ...

Left To right: 1. broken side of knife or spear 2. Broken Drill 3. Broken arrowhead 4. Broken knife 5. Not broken simple drill. ...

I'm befuddled.  I have no idea what to write about this object.  Every time I look at this strange, strange, doll I start to laugh.  L...

1. A rock with a hole in it...soon it will become a beautiful necklace.  2. A strange and orange piece of coral.  Look at that fantastic r...

What my amateur ass assumes to be an impression coral (it kinda looks like this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/85591315@N00/3154262600/ ...

A bison tooth fossil in it's natural habitat. Sometimes people ask me, "How do you find all of those fossils?"  Someti...

5 pounds of edible mushroom! Soaking in salt water to clean the giant, scary looking mushroom. cut up and ready to cook in butte...

I collected more marigold DNA for next year.

Lycopsid tree root or Stigmaria ("root") Oh god, I just want to drag the description of this ancient plant straight off of th...

I'm almost finished with my 6th piece in the new body of work.  I feel like I need to pat myself on the back for ten minutes and gi...

Left to Right: 1. small chunk of fossilized coral or sponge 2. buffalo nickel so you can guesstimate the size of each fossil 3. Part of a...

I was in a pawn shop the other day and came across something interesting...can anyone guess what the framed art is made from?  I doubt it,...

I found a few more things while walking through the skunk river.  This deer knuckle bone was one of the first things I picked up from the ...

We returned from Ames and decided to go to the camp spot and search the river bank for more treasures.  The water was even lower than it w...

It was an Ames, Iowa kind of a weekend.  The Skunk River runs through the town and there have been rumors of a dry river bank.  A dry rive...