Hi. It's me. I'm a Professor of Biology and [Interim] Associate Dean (life takes some strange turns...) at a Midwestern liberal arts university, where I teach courses in human anatomy and physiology + cadaver labs, evolution, and biodiversity. I earned my PhD in Biology from FSU by recovering the "Tree of Life" for rays, skates and their relatives, and am broadly trained in vertebrate biology and evolution. The teaching part is nice. I wrote an open access biodiversity textbook [I will get around to properly implementing this page someday], featuring The Science and a goodly number of new illustrations/figures.

I'm also a wannabe artist. I'm slowly getting better. I have done commissioned book covers, album art, website graphics, and logos. On blacklit years, I honor Halloween with an art Project. I live for the season.

I am a lifelong fanatic of the 2017 (come at me) and 2022 World Series Champion Houston Astros, weird and speculative fiction, and proper Tex-Mex that I cannot find up here. My wife is patient and my clear superior in most respects, and my rescue dogs are loving and strange.

COMMISSIONS

I can be contracted for artwork; please email me at iceandshadows [at] gmail.com. Selected commissioned works are posted in my PORTFOLIO, with clients including: