Murals & Illustration

Quality first

Why choose Marlin?

From digital to traditional, paint rollers to pushing pixels, your project deserves the benefits of an artist that can exploit the benefits of each.

Commissions (traditional and digital)

From logos, posters, t-shirts, book designs to large murals. Marlin is experienced with traditional pen and ink, to digital drawing, painting, and more.

Illustration (traditional & digital)

Marlin has completed many types of illustrations over the years. From Scientific drawings for books and museums, to fiction and book artwork in pen and ink, paint, and digital platforms.

Murals (indoor & outdoor)

If your looking to have a cool mural done at your business, and or home, you have found the right place. Marlin is a seasoned and experienced artist for all types of indoor and exterior murals.

About

Committed to Quality Since 2007

Marlins artwork can be seen from high in the air on large roof tops, to a simple small painted art for a book illustration. No matter what type of art is needed, Marlin can help get your design going. With years of experience, and plenty of happy customers, you know that your are getting your monies worth with Marlin.

The blog

Latest News

Painting is proceeding in all this heat

Painting is proceeding in all this heat

Its hot up there, but I would DEFINITELY take heat over the constant wind.  Not both.  I can't use my expensive larder of spraypaint (I had planned on) because the paint just gets shoved right up into the stratosphere to never pigment evermore.  That said, the mural...

read more
Giant harvestmen stake out on the Armory

Giant harvestmen stake out on the Armory

Amazing processes are busily revealing themselves in the search for my ever so complex preliminary arachnids.  They have to nestle right onto the building, natural-like...and so its quite complicated.  The angle of the armory roof is such, and the view from the space...

read more
Direct from Miocene: the cavity of the Blue Lake Rhino

Direct from Miocene: the cavity of the Blue Lake Rhino

Here is a little text and an upcoming sketch from my proposal for the Dry Falls visitor center: (the gist is- "...YOU NEED A PROPER PAINTING OF THE RHINO GETTING EMBALMED IN LAVA!") This image is a collage of both the digital mock-up and a stripe of the partial...

read more
I got selected for GAP funding!!

I got selected for GAP funding!!

The acronym to know is GAP: Grants for Artist Projects.  It is part of Artist Trust, a Washington organization that hooks up artists with grants.  An incredible resource that I am so honored to receive. To make a long story short, after months of waiting and...

read more
Vashon Island now has carbon free delivery!

Vashon Island now has carbon free delivery!

Well, then again Brent might have something made from carbon-fiber on his delivery bike. I did this logo for a friend who started up a business delivering goods to the people and businesses on Vashon island, just outside of Seattle...

read more
Creodonts of the Chuckanuts…as told by a Tapir Toddler

Creodonts of the Chuckanuts…as told by a Tapir Toddler

I am finished with my paleo painting!  It was quite the diabolical time sink, but I am quite pleased with how it came out.  I have painted many discrete subjects over the years, but creating a fully rendered environment in and around a given creature is a full-on leap...

read more