Chicago based artist specializing in illustration, caricatures, comics, & creative signage
Robert grew up in Chicago where he started creating art with friends, inspired by comics, album covers, graffiti art, skateboard graphics, tattoos & maybe a little fine art. After high school he moved to New Mexico, where he became a father & worked in a variety of creative fields including tattooing, murals, airbrushing, & sign making. Over the last 25 years he's worked for such companies as Nike, Whole Foods Market, Trader Joe's, McDonalds & many other (small, large, impressive & not so much) businesses, doing Illustration, murals, sign making, caricatures & graphic recording. He enjoys connecting & collaborating on projects (as long as he has complete & utter control over all aspects;) otherwise he's pursuing personal projects like painting, comics, & writing about himself in the third person. This website contains bits & pieces from my, I mean, his artistic journey over the last 20-odd years.
Simple Heady is how I describe my art styles. The ideas & motivation behind a lot of the work is an attempt to show both the extremes & subtleties of inspirations & critical observations within society, nature, consciousness & dream states. I aim to both entertain & express a kind of spiritual glory that gets at the wonder of this existence. "Simple Heady" also works as a reminder to myself to strive for balance in life & art. Thanks for reading!
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