the basic elements make it back to the water

When I was little I was in love with the movie The Point. The songs still get in my head, so one day when this happened I happened to be drawing. This little guy slipped out in the process.


pour yourself a cup - small and large sizes

aw snap, new website design!

Aw man, first post while using my new design! The blog now matches up with my brand spankin' new website. I still have my eye out for mistakes or broken links, if you find one, let me know!

I also have up some painted jars on etsy. The vases seem to be a hit, I want to do tons more.


Chirp Chirp - $25

I also learned a valuable lesson on shipping costs this week. I think the biggest lesson is that it makes no sense to me whatsoever.

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.

Lend a Hand

I'm in the process of painting for the Toys show going on here starting Dec 3. Despite a problem where my fireplace sneezed soot over half my living room, I am chugging along. check out the show at http://www.primarycolours.org/ It should be pretty awesome.


In the meantime I'm playing with transparency in my work. It's a lot of fun to plan for. Not sure how much I'll use it though.

Posession

Trying to play around with bodies again. Naked and semi naked people are tons of fun.


In the mean time it's getting cold out. I have the windows open and I'm warming my feet with the brick of my computer charger. Winter, I am ready to take you on.

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.

Oh man oh man oh man oh man

I bought a drawing from Grant Gilliand as a gift to myself for my birthday, it came in the mail yesterday! I am very excited about it. I interviewed him for a project for my first illustration class a few years ago and I still can't get over his work. Master of Sharpie's, that man is. Now I have to decide where it's going to go.



Speaking of stuff on the wall, while trying to get some good photos for etsy, which is apparently near impossible in my light sucking cave house, I took this while testing the light. It made me laugh, I figured I should share.






I put these notebooks up for sale the other day too, they're pretty rad and I had fun making them. I really dig the paper I used in them, it has some delicious tooth to it.

Now for some painting and a few hours of The Golden Girls.

Commissions

I got my hands on two commissions from my etsy. One for a Pan and one for a mermaid. Neither are something I'd think of doing right off so it was kind of nice. However, the dude wanted me to paint and ink them, nothing digital. That thew me for a loop, I haven't painted in a while.





Because I was a little shaky I've promised myself to do a little more practice. So I did a quick doodle last night and did some practice painting.



Hopefully I get better pretty soon.

So here we are, in the car again

I've been in Indianapolis now for about a week and a half. I've ventured out on my own to the scary land of the post office and grocery store. I nearly died.

Not really, but my car smells like wet cabbage now because we hauled my goldfish in the seat of my car behind the truck we rented. Apparently it spilled a bit. Seriously though, just like slightly cooked cabbage, I'm not even kidding.

I'm not getting into the swing of things, I got a commission for two pieces I'm nearly done with. A Pan and a mermaid, just ink and a quick painting respectively. It's kind of blowing my mind because I haven't actually done ink or paint in quite a while. Apparently I've become more patient because I haven't thrown the painting out the window yet. Last year that baby would have been compost by now.

Here's a doodle turned kind of neato from tonight. We can't afford cable so I'm catching up on Big Love and doodling. Best kind of combo. We were without internet for the first week or so. I nearly died. You have no idea how many wireless routers I tried to admin/admin my ass into.



I'm not sure if you knew or not, but B is for Bongo.

But can they tell me the lotto numbers?

It's March! I'm moving in two weeks, that's pretty scary. I technically started packing, but I only have a box filled with 23 garden gnomes, a cement Virgin Mary, and a Bust of Spock that doubles as a decanter. I wish I was kidding, but I bet you wish you were as awesome as the contents of that box.

I decided that I should stay up all night in order to reset my sleep schedule, for the past few months I've accidentally been going to sleep at about 6am. Night shifts do goofy things to me and I should probably return to the land of the living and conscious. To occupy my time I finished a set of fortune teller ladies I have been working on off and on. They used to have about five times as many colors and more detail but I just don't think I'm good at those type of things. I find it more fun to pick an extremely small amount of colors and go to work figuring out how to make it work.

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.

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.

Devil in a new trench coat

I could have sworn I made a post, but I guess it got eaten in the dead of night. Kind of scary considering the subject matter of the images I threw up. Weird!

Here are the images, I've been on a devil binge lately. After seeing The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus tonight compared to my already overinflated love for Tom Waits, the horns are going to be flying. Just you wait.




And some alternate color:


I threw all of these up on my Etsy. I'm getting way too addicted to that website.