Brutus - without the fruit hat as seen in my house

I hope everyone is having a fun state of the union party, I know I'm having a blast! I have replaced pretty much every word with "bacon" and it's making for a very convincing and inspiring speech.

Here's a portrait of Brutus who lives on the mantle in my living room. I'll be making him a lady friend to keep him company soon.

Art fair shenanigans.

Hey kids!

I've been busy preparing for an art fair downtown, as well as helping my roommate prepare for a completely different one the same day. A word of advice, don't try and make a booth out of PVC when you have never done anything like that before and are too short to put it together anyway.
In short, it's been a little hectic. I'm still trying to get things done though. For example, I'm getting out the paint and brushes and actually painting!

Sorry for the bad scan and terrible photo, but I am only left with a bad scanner and an apartment devoid of a place to take a decent photo. I'll have better versions soon though, I hope.

New City cover

Hey! If you're in the Chicago area check out the cover I did for this week's Newcity Magazine. It's out today (June 10) and free! So grab a handful and throw them at people.*



Show me some photos if you find one, it would be awfully rad of you.

*not responsible if you throw things at others, however hilarious it may be.

Car is the Cathedral of the 20th Century

For a little bit there I was in an idea block, I think I'm out of it. However unless I'm actively working on things, I feel like I'm not productive. So I dug out the first piece I ever did with a shape oriented design a few years ago in order to maybe mess with it:

I think I did this for an Illustrator based project, I don't quite remember. The whole idea was from a quote I learned in my Beat Lit class "The car is the cathedral of the 20th Century" or something similar to that.



I remade all the shapes then did a little color change. Decided I was not done and messed with color more.





Then more color messing.



I figure I'm finished with it for now. I like it all three ways, but not sure which I like best. If anything, it was fun to revisit a piece I forgot about.

Two and a half weeks until I move to Indianapolis, I'm kind of pooping myself. I have a lot of crap to pack.

Eh, still on a sexy ladies kick

So I drew that lady ass with the zombies, now I'm drawing sexy TOS Star Trek ladies. Honestly their uniforms and hyper-sexualization of uterus folk on there just beg for some crazy shapes. I like making fun shapes. I'll probably do an alien/astro/cosmonaut set too. People out there seem to like the ladies. Maybe all men, maybe all women, maybe both. Who knows?!

Alien seduction, oh my!

Bone Daddy

While doing research for this I came to the conclusion that If I were to marry an inanimate object to make many non-babies, it would probably be a 1952 olive-gold Gibson Les Paul. Either that or a suhweet Velvet Elvis painting.

Something about that Spark

We got a new lightbulb for above the mirror in the bathroom. It's so bright I am pretty sure I can see through my own forehead and into an alternate dimension. It's great for doing your eyebrows though.

Oh Rats, This Was Going To Be A Secret

I'm getting my promo materials together! I'm all of a sudden thinking that I should mess around with the look of my website to match this card front. I'm kind of in love with these colors. Maybe I'll beat up my roommate and make her paint the apartment in these colors.

Yes, those colors and those sweet lines that Flint Lockwood painted all his sciency things in Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. Hot damn, I love that movie. It made me laugh so loud in the theater that I'm pretty sure the people who worked them came in to check if I (and Mao) were okay. I got it when it came out I got the DVD and laughed just as hard.

Someone asked what's up with the rats in my work here and there. It's because I had rats. Rats are hella rad. This is Lenny, her roommate was named George. Lenny liked to hang out in my shirt and make her way into my bra and just chill. She was weird.