Keith Lowe Art

With a little shifting around of the letters… This past December, our 29-year-old HVAC system, both the air handler and heat pump, failed simultaneously. I don’t know why I should be surprised by this. We have a motto in the Lowe family when it comes to hardware—run it until it explodes. Which is essentially what it did. “Nothing stops a Trane… except you not taking care of it.” Words I remember from our home inspector many years ago Inside the garage, I could hear clicking a

I have discovered that the van is the ultimate member of the car collection. In our family, before my wife or I leaves we ask, "Are you taking the car... or the VAN?" The van is the prize of the fleet, packing seats for the entire family, without exception. I once heard a mechanic affectionately refer to them as ‘kid haulers.’ Should you yourself come into possession of a kid hauler, you will learn that your young passengers feel differently about your vehicle than you do. Th

At the end of April I spent a week at Prairie Trace Elementary School. There are over 700 students from K-5th grade. It was a whirlwind...

Earlier this week, I sent the book files to the printer. It took me quite a bit longer than I wanted. I knew running a Kickstarter at the...

My heart sank at the question… because I already knew the answer. About a year or so ago, I started to move more seriously toward...

Yeah, I mean… isn’t that the end of the process? It makes sense, right? That’s the last part of digestion… So, at the end of the first...

There's always this mad dash to the end of any creative project. Next  Tuesday, August 20th, at 11 EST, the Kickstarter will launch to...

Where does our influence come from, and how does it speak to the kind of work we hope to do today?

In a previous post, I shared how Evelyn was the story's narrator for the Fuel Factory. However, as I began to understand the importance...

Things often seem very obvious when we have the advantage of hindsight.  In one of my advanced illustration classes, I use early versions...

In the very earliest manuscript of The Fuel Factory , the cast featured both of my children. My eldest daughter, Evy, is telling her...

...a zip lock bag in this case. Around 2018, I was preparing for my first contact period with the University of Hartford’s Low-Residency...

It’s easy and fun to start projects. Everything feels fresh; everything is exciting, endless possibilities.