Here is the house that Erica and I bought four years ago. We call her “"Moonbeam”.

WHY I LEFT PORTLAND, OREGON: four years later

August 4, 2026

I can’t believe it's been four years since I left Oregon and moved to…Indiana, a state I had never been to, nor in a million years would have thought I would ever live. Four years feels significant, like the length of high school or college. To recap, we relocated to Fort Wayne, Indiana for affordable housing. Our plans were hatched during the pandemic and executed just as the masks were coming off. And if it weren’t for the soaring house prices in Portland, I would have never left. I love that city and the gloomy Northwest dearly. I was born in Portland, my family still lives there and it will always be a part of me. The moss and pines and rain are in my DNA. ….

“Midnight Friends” 16x20 Oil on Panel 2026

MIDNIGHT FRIENDS: please let me sleep

July 21, 2026

Have you ever woken up in the night to discover someone or something standing over your bed? What would you do in this situation?

When I was a kid I had a recurring dream about waking up on a hospital bed and finding myself in a large white room. Captain Kirk from Star Trek would be standing over my bed and Spock would be in the far corner…..

An oil painting by Mark Rogers of a man channeling aliens while smoking weed

CHANNELING THE INTERGALACTIC COUNCIL: terrifying predictions and gardening tips

July 16, 2026

What do you think about channeling? Do you think it is possible to connect with deceased loved ones, spirits, or even non-human intelligences? Here is a new painting—an image that came to me while channeling.

“The Attention Vampire” 24x18 oil on panel 2026 “The Mystifier Series” 3/9

THE ATTENTION VAMPIRE: and he wears a fanny pack

June 27, 2026

It was during the time of the Linterget Troll Festival when the mysterious pyramidal object that would be later known as “The Mystifier” arrived in the town of Crow in the land of the Southwestern Bellows. For the first few hours, the object projected weird imagery, completely mystifying the town's residents. Then at midnight when the folk were in a mentally weakened state, a hatch in the object opened and a man stepped out. He introduced himself as Chaz Throckmorton and said he needed their attention.

“The Mystifier” 16x20 Oil on Panel 2026. “The Mystifier” series painting 2/9.

THE MYSTIFIER: cute things, gross things, pickles and toes.....

May 29, 2026

The object that would be later called the Mystifier descended from the clouds and landed in the town of Crow during the time of the Linterget Troll Festival. The strange machine possessed the ability to change its size and color, and to some degree its shape, although it seemed to favor a pyramidal form.

Through some unknown magicks it projected an unending array of vivid holographic imagery--literally mystifying and entrancing the town’s residents for hours on end. It showed dancers, musicians and magicians, cats, bats, lewd nudes, men fighting, kids crying, cute things, gross things, pickles, toes, and unknown lands… but more often than not, it showed people talking. Talking directly to the people of Crow as if they were experts or friends. And the person they saw the most was maybe not a person at all, but something else. It called itself Chaz Throckmorton and claimed to be a “Future Human”. He said that the pyramidal object was his, that long ago his company had built it, and bragged that he was exceedingly rich, immortal, and a genius.

What he failed to mention and what the citizens of Crow would later find out, was that Chaz Throckmorton was an attention-vampire.

BEHIND THE VEIL:

In the preliminary drawing, I had the Mystifier projecting an array of various faces and things related to the tarot suits...but that didn’t quite fit. I knew that the Mystifier projected all kinds of imagery, but I had the hardest time deciding. At one point it projected an owl with a candle over its head, to represent knowledge, but that didn’t quite work either. Eventually I landed on the future human, Chaz Throckmorton, who will be appearing more later in the series.

I love a good juxtaposition, in this case: oldtimey people placed next to a space vampire.

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“The Mystifier” Series 3/9
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This is a one-of-a-kind item, guaranteed to bring many years of spooky joy to you, your family, and friends—an uncanny conversation starter to say the least.
If, for any reason, you are unsatisfied with the painting, you can ship it back to me in its original condition within one month for a full refund. My job is to make people happy!

THE TROLL FESTIVAL: what's that in the sky? also, fun hats.

May 14, 2026

It was during the time of the Linterget Troll Festival when the mysterious pyramidal object that would be later known as “The Mystifier” arrived in the town of Crow in the land of the Southwestern Bellows. A time of celebration and revelry, the Linterget Troll Festival was held each year in honor of Linterget the Troll, a rude, hulking, cave-dwelling creature who haunted the mossy mountains looming over the town--a town named for its abundant corvid population.

STINK BUG: a girl from the future with a stinky pet

March 25, 2026

Greetings Earthlings, here is the album cover that I created for the Portland band, Stinkbug. They are a punk/metal/jazz fusion-inspired prog rock band, all super talented musicians, and if I ever get the chance I would love to see them live.

DUEL IN THE DESERT: battle in the astral realm

March 17, 2026

The painting illustrates the story’s climax: the sudden arrival of the Zeta Reticulan Death Priests. They have come to settle the score with the resurrected extraterrestrial—now referred to as the “Cactus Person”—who, despite his origins, has become a friend to Pinkney and his neighbors.

DRACONIAN RITE OF AGING: what a celebration!

March 10, 2026

On the anniversary of his two-hundred and forty-seventh hatching-day, Repgore Fanglock was caught off guard--ambushed by his allies. He was then gifted a beautiful new war axe and a frosted meat cake made from the corpses his slain enemies. What followed was an uncommon but sweet moment of happiness.

DOOM RAINBOW: all debts are paid!

March 10, 2026

The Cactus Person was weirdly protective of Pinkney. When an aggressive student loan officer tried to extract a high-interest payment from Pinkney--for a course he had taken thirty-five years prior, let it be known!--the Cactus Person intervened. With an eerie whistling sound, a beam of light shot forth from the creature’s hand and enveloped the loan officer’s head in a frightening doom rainbow…

TUCSON: The Wilensky Exquisite Minerals exhibit at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Gallery

March 5, 2026

Greetings Earthlings, I am so excited to share this with you all! Just over a year ago I was hired to illustrate a look-book for Wilensky Minerals, called “LORE”. It is a high-quality catalogue that they publish each year showing off their fantastic crystalline specimens, and in this cased, the illustrations were for an upcoming exhibit they are having at the 2026 Tucson Gem and Mineral Festival at the Tucson Fine Mineral Gallery.

THE NEW FOLLOWER: his immortal child...that eats gold

January 6, 2026

But over the next few days the creature followed Pinkney everywhere, asking questions, delivering unwelcome telepathic downloads, and just lurking. The creature also ate metal, which was annoying because it devoured Pinkney’s cast-iron skillet, his lucky horseshoe, and most of his money.

PROGRAMMING THE SKULL: Good times with old friends

December 30, 2025

This series tells the story of Pinkney Dill (see my painting “The Resurrection Pod”), a master gardener leading a tidy and serene life, who one day discovers an extraordinary saguaro in his front yard….

A CACHE OF WEAPONS AND GOLD: A LANDSCAPING DISASTER

December 19, 2025

…When the trance wore off, and he saw his desert sanctuary ruined, Pinkney was devastated. His neighbors promised to help him re-landscape, and the alien then gave everyone three gold bars, which helped ease Pinkney’s mood. It ate the remaining nineteen.

THE HOT LAVA LAMP: a bad trip for sure

December 19, 2025

Shortly after it emerges from the extraordinary saguaro, the newly resurrected extraterrestrial telepathically shares its life story with Pinkney. This scene shows how the alien was betrayed by those of its own arcane order of powerful Zeta Reticulan Death Priests and was subsequently executed by those it once led.

“The Initiation of Rudolph Darkwood” 18x24 Oil on Panel 2025

THE INITIATION OF RUDOLPH DARKWOOD: The Mothfather

December 2, 2025

The Northern Forest in the land of the Southwestern Bellows is well known to be a nexus of mysterious occurrences and unexplained phenomena, for within these woods dwell hidden folk, unkindly magickal spirits, and even Gods. Rudolph Darkwood, born on the very edge of this forest, which was his namesake, was a lepidopterist (a person who studies and collects moths and butterflies). Rudolph loved these winged insects and was hunting for unusual specimens when, like so many others before him, he became lost. Rudolph was fond of singing, so for hours he sang to both maintain his mood and in hopes that someone might find him. But it wasn’t long before he felt the forest’s “otherness” closing in--before he felt as if he was being stalked.

“The Resurrection Pod” 18x24 Oil on Panel 2025 “The Cactus Garden Series” 1/9, Mark Rogers, Aliens, Scifi Art, Popsurrealism, Narrative Art, Cactus, Magick, Rainbows

THE RESURRECTION POD: A master gardener's mystery

November 11, 2025

“The Resurrection Pod” 18x24 Oil on Panel 2025 “The Cactus Garden Series” 1/9

*Greetings Earthlings, here is the first painting in a new series that I am calling the “Cactus Garden”.

🌵 Here is an excerpt from the story:

On Midsomer’s day, Master Gardner, Pinkney Dill, discovered the strangest cactus growing in his garden. Where had it come from? The strange cactus stood twenty tall and resembled a handsome many-armed saguaro, except there was clearly something large and gross wriggling inside. Pinkney grimaced and shook his head. The saguaro’s flowers gave off a vaguely metallic stink, and it had an odd vertical seam down the middle. The oddest thing about the towering writhing saurago was that it had not been there the day before. It must have sprouted up overnight.

RITUAL OF TEARS: the summoning of sobs

October 21, 2025

This painting is from my Summoner and Scribe series, which tells the story of Benjamin Tod Mortimer, a melancholy young lad who gives up on his dream of being an author of children’s tragedies to take a good-paying but unsatisfy job as a scribe for a Master Occultist…who specializes in the summoning of demons.

PRELIMINARY DRAWINGS: Death Priests!

October 4, 2025

✨ Greetings Earthlings, here are some preliminary drawings from my sketchbook. Presently, I am working on a new series...I think it will be called, "Death Priests,"...but don't hold me to it,….

WILLIAM-OF-THE-WISP: Esoteric knowledge, power, and a million-year-old meteorite.

September 27, 2025

✨🌵When the Ancient Doom Lord, William-of-the-Wisp, was offered an opportunity to increase his frightening powers, he could hardly resist.

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