Carefree Artist

3/16/20

In the Power of Soap and Science (and Art) I Trust

I'm just an artist so it's not much, but if somebody needs any royalty-free clip art to make infographics that might help to flatten the curve of the current COVID-19 pandemic you are welcome to it at my website www.EducatorClips.com. Stay healthy please!

Royalty-free clip art for use for to make an infographic that might help flatten the curve of the current COVID-19 pandemic

3/13/20

Sonorasaurus Coloring Page

The Sonoraurus, which is related to the Brachiosaurus, was estimated to have lived in the middle Cretaceous Period about 100 million years ago. It was believed to have been about 50 feet long and nearly 30 feet tall. Sonorasaurus Thompsoni is Arizona’s official state dinosaur.

Click here to go to the download page at my Arizona website, www.GilaBen.com.

2/22/20

Marketing Disaster

2/14/20

Dinosaur Valentine

Dinosaur Valentine Delivery

This image was created several years ago for a set of Valentine's Day cards for a major greeting card publisher. After a successful run it was retired and the rights reverted back to me. Dinosaur Valentine Delivery is one of my favorite whimsical paper product illustrations. It is now being prepared for inclusion on folioMARK.com, my online stock image gallery and is available for licensing. Please feel free to contact me via my website, folioMARK.com, for more information.

1/1/20

12/29/19

2020 Greetings

The Year of the Rat. Happy New Year 2020 from illustrator Mark A. Hicks

Rattus Albus

12/24/19

An old, but yet still very appropriate, passage from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

About this blog/art journal...

The Carefree Artist is about my artistic endeavors and adventures as a professional freelance creative. Posts might feature a cartoon, or a recently published illustration from a book or magazine assignment, or an original piece of art that I might be selling to try and raise funds for my art supply donation project. All with an emphasis on originality.

Why did I name this journal the Carefree Artist*? Actually, it’s really just a wishful sentiment. A professional life in the arts, mine included, is usually anything but carefree. But oh, how wonderful it would be to really be a carefree artist! Living the simple life in a quiet and inspiring location and creating a ton of art just for art's sake!

The name was also inspired by the Carefree Highway. A road that played an important role in my life... More about this journal's name at the bottom of this page.

Please see my website, MARKiX.net, for more info and more samples of my work.

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A Note from the Artist...

As you look around this blog you can’t help but notice a distinct change in the artwork and the tone of the content over the past few years. There’s a good reason for this -- being a cancer caregiver and then the death of my wife due to hereditary cancer. A cancer that was preventable.

I never wanted this blog to be a place where I unloaded anger and sadness because of cancer and grief. I had other plans, more lighthearted and whimsical. But when you have the love of your life take their last breath in your arms because vital genetic info was not shared, it changes everything.

So, I have chosen to use my humble little corner of the world to speak up about hereditary cancer awareness and the unbearable heartache of the untimely loss of a loved one.


	Art, Desert Beginnings, and Someday


	Delicate Sounds of Nature


	First (and Last) Contact


	Drawing Science


	Award-winning Junior Ranger Book


	La Fiesta, NOT Tijuana


	Depressed Post-Impressionist Not Impressed


	A Bad Head Day


	Meet Dusty Pack