Steven's Stories

Uff da! This is an all-purpose exclamation in Norwegian. The older I get and the crazier this world gets, the more useful it becomes. It doe...

A few years ago, I joined a gym and lost a lot of weight (all told, 80 pounds). I blogged about it back in 2014 here . Kyler was one of the ...

Je croyais que tu devais le savoir. Ça, c'est pour toi. Oui, pour toi, la personne incroyable qui lit ceci. Tu es génial ! Ne laisse per...

Creo que debes saber. Esto es para tí. Sí, para tí, la persona increíble que lee esto. Eres una persona impresionante. No dejes que nadie le...

Thought you should know. This is for you. Yes, you, amazing person reading this! You are awesome. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Y...

This is my friend Charlie. He is pretty amazing, and I have a lot of respect for him. He also played Cchhär in my movies Yibvlidj Apocalypse...

This is my brother Aaron. We may not be biologically related, but that's beside the point. Although, there are Olsons among my ancestors...

My uncle Randy was tragically killed by a drunk driver before I was born. I have heard wonderful things about him, and I wish I could have k...

My cousin Darcy is an amazing, talented person. In the years since I did this portrait of her, she also got married and has an amazing son. ...

One assignment in one of my design classes was to make a personal logo. If I remember right, I made this one in Adobe After Effects. I also ...

I made this portrait as a wedding present for my cousins Tim and Annika a few years ago. They now have two amazing kids! Today Annika advanc...

"To err is human. To loaf is Parisian." - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Victor Hugo had a very distinctive writing style. Best known...

In our ongoing campaign to introduce the Canvas LMS (Learning Management System) to Edmonds Community College, our fearless leader Steve Sos...

Our first assignment in our illustration class was to do a self portrait. This was not that self portrait. As that was my first attempt, I w...

Happy Easter! I made this illustration a few years ago to celebrate Easter. It was a follow-up to my Good Friday illustration, making a few ...

Kyrie Eleison  is Latin for "Lord, have mercy!" It is often used in church liturgy going back centuries, and as I see more and mor...

In high school I did a report on James Weldon Johnson, a preacher who put a bunch of his sermons in his book God's Trombones . I love Jo...

This was inspired by my friend Tyler as he was helping me with my workout in early April 2013. (As of April 9 of that year, it was "las...

In one of my art classes in 2011, we received two related assignments. Our professor told us up front there was a second part of the assignm...

Kamas, Utah, 2022. I had just arrived at the conference center and happened to look down at the ground to discover this guy smiling up at me...