The Story

Where art meets
the game.

Charcoal Golf is the work of Minneapolis artist Mark Rivard, an urban twist on the classic architecture of the world's foremost clubs and courses.

The Artist

Mark Rivard

Mark Rivard is a professional fine artist, writer, educator, and entrepreneur working out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Alongside Charcoal Golf, he runs the well-regarded arts education platform Do Rad Things (A Skateboard Art Education) and STAGE Culinary, plus his own brand of products and creative services.

Charcoal Golf is where his love of art and the game meet: an urban twist on the classic architecture of the world's foremost clubs and courses, rendered in his distinct mixed-media style.

Mark RivardArtist, Charcoal Golf

The Team

Patrick Jacobson

Sales / Partnerships

Russ Olson

Print Production, Brand Strategy

The Craft

The mixed-media style.

Each piece blends charcoal, watercolor, Sharpie, and colored pencil, built up by hand to capture the course and the moments that made it special. Once complete, the original is meticulously transformed into a fine art giclée print using museum-grade archival techniques, preserving every line, texture, and tonal nuance, so the original's depth survives on your wall.

The Process

From blank page
to finished piece.

Every hole begins as a pencil sketch, then builds by hand: ink, watercolor, and color layered over days until the light feels right. Here is a single hole, start to finish.