Mike McSwain is an architect with architectural projects in the USA including Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri and internationally in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming, Qingdao, Chengdu and Suzhou), Croatia, Taiwan, and Indonesia.

While traveling, Mike creates urban sketches on location, capturing everyday scenes as well as landmarks. The sketches are ink with watercolor and some are extruded out into layered three dimensional sculptures of the urban sketches.

Art has been featured in a local gallery show entitled "Greetings from a Cafe Seat".