Toys 2010

Hey kiddos! Tonight is the opening of the Toys show in downtown Indianapolis! I have a piece there that you can check out (or buy, if you are so kind.) I only have the color comp I did, but I'll be sure to get some photos tonight.

Check it out:

Primary Colors presents TOYS.
6-9 plus an after party.
Good times will be had, I'm sure.

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.

Let me get what I want

Oh my, my, my. I painted this on a board but decided I wanted to play around with the shapes a little more. It's been a weird month so I'm recycling.

Food Food Food

Man, since the art fair shenanigans is over I am going into apartment improvement. Note to everyone: IKEA furniture doesn't appreciate paint so much.

In the mean time I took my drawing I had for my Art vs Art piece and made this:



I also painted my own version of a lady in a hat for Gleaners. Gleaners is a food bank in Indiana that will be doing a silent auction. For every 10 dollars raised, 10 people can be fed. I'm already feeding 131231 foster cats so why not be more charitable? Let's hope I feed a lot of people. http://www.gleaners.org/

art vs art

Art vs Art paint day was this past Saturday and you know what that means! VOTING TIME. so head out this way and vote for your favorites. Mine is canvas 56, if you would be so kind.

A little explanation for the contest from my roommate:

"The concept of the competition is you go and paint for a day with supplied materials and it goes into voting with a load of other paintings. At the big Main Event, 32 paintings make it to the floor where people can vote for the ones they want to see on stage. 16 paintings make it and go round by round one on one with an applause-o-meter deciding the victor. The loser spins the wheel of DEATH and if it's not "Instant Death" it gets auctioned off. If no one wants it, that shit gets DESTROYED in various ways (such as chainsaw, katana, paint thinner, jackhammer, or "dirty sanchez"). It's an amazing competition and I could only get a tiny photo from the site (some are larger than others for whatever reason) but the canvases are all 18x20. "

So check it out, vote, and if you're in the area come to the main event on the 24th to buy me a drink or something! Hey there, behbeh.

New Promo Card

For anyone in Indy on the 18th, I'll be throwing these new promo cards at everyone. I also had cards made of my "put another one on" and "headphones" pieces as well. Obviously the beard card is the way to go though.

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.

Ayn Rand is my homegirl?

I've been digging around in the deep, dark folders of my hard drive and found a lot of old work of mine including this dude who is one of the first things I did in illustrator. I dropped the whole cut paper look pretty fast, but making shapes stuck. Looking back is weird.



old stuff gallery on flickr, check it out if you're curious.

But what I really wanted to tell you dudes about was my friend Ben's comic that has been updated every week on Wonkette. He's about eleventy-billion times as awesome as I will ever be. You can find all of them so far HERE. This link is one step toward paying him back for all the times he made me feel less awkward in SCADRadio meetings and the most awesome Project Runway/Prez and Vice Prez debate parties ever.

Raining like what

Finally I think the whole cat health issues thing is over. I'm thankful because I am tired of digging into my fig nuton funds for poop-cat medications.

While I wasn't freaking out about the state of my cat's butt, I tried out some new coloring techniques to make things a tad bit more interesting. I used a drawing from my sketchbook of Andrew Bird and figured it would be a good fit for an experiment. I kind of dig it, but I need to see how else I can push it.



I also got a painting done this weekend. I need to get a decent scanner to actually show it off nicely. My photos of it kind of look a little gross. It felt good to paint again though, I'll have to do it more.

Woah, dude

I made Dad an iPad seeing as there is no way in holy butts I can afford one for Father's Day. It was pretty sweet but I didn't think about taking a photo of it until I was walking out of the post office. Oops. Hopefully it gets there safe and sound so he can take a picture of it for me.

I keep saying "dude" at work, every time it slips out I feel like a rebel.

Here, have this:

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.

Pistols at Dawn

If you follow a few of my friends from school, you should know that we're all participating in Drawgasmic! Everyone else seems to have sent their stuff in and showed what they made for it, so I might as well too. If you're interested, I'm 99% sure they're till taking applications. it looks like it should be pretty rad. I'm even considering driving the many hours just to go. Possible road trip, hell yes.



Here is what I made, I call it "Pistols at Dawn"





I would stop drawing siamese twins because I do it a lot, but they are waaaaay too much fun.

Also I put my "Put Another One On" piece up for sale. I dig him lots.



I have another few actual paintings to show, but this post is far too image heavy as it is. I'll save them for later.

Gas Snacks

I don't know if I've mentioned it, but I collect WWI stuff and gasmasks. I never get amazingly epic things, just little buts here and there. A medal, a poster, a mask, a bag, anything neat that I can afford. Every once in a while I remember I actually have these things and they get me a-doodlin'.





I never thought I would use pink for anything. There's a first for everything, right? I may have to utilise it in the future.

Over the past two weeks I have been going through a pretty depressing kitty situation where two weeks after I adopted two little dudes I had to put one down. I feel much better because it was the right decision, but please just hug your pets for good old Major Tom.

Put another one on

I was listening to records the other day while I was cleaning and the rain was pouring, it was a good day. Kitties to pet, couches to nap on, I had to doodle a bit.



I decided to take the advice of a few cool people and start playing with textures again. Expect to see more in the future.

Now available as a print.

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.

Bang Bang Bang

I'm till trying to get used to this office job thing. It's throwing off my need to doodle like crazy.

However last night I hunkered down and did a bunch of drawings with a gas mask theme going on because I found a new WWI mask I have my eye on.

I collect them, if you didn't know. With all these happy-go-lucky things on here did you REALLY think everything I own is sunshine and rainbows?

Gonna go shoot some things on the vidya games now.

Computer Machine

My brother was involved in robotics competitions. He's a secret nerd sporty type. I always mean to draw robots and electronics but never do. I drew this out for the painting from the last post and decided to do it all clean-like on the computer.

Birthday and Painting

This past week was my birthday! It was pretty uneventful, though Mao bought me a tiny chocolate almond ice cream cake which we slit. Best roommate ever, though I was half sure the almond smell was poison. It turned out to be delicious instead.

I also decided to nab myself a drawing from Grant Gilliand as a gift to myself. I interviewed him about four years ago for my first illustration class. Not only was he really nice, he also had some good advice. I should probably go into my email and read it again, the advice is probably a little more relevant now. Anyway, you should check him out, his work is extremely rad.


I'm still playing with color and possible ways to render. I'm having fun with it.


I also whipped up a painting, I need to play with it a bit more. I haven't painted in almost a year now so I was insanely nervous about every little thing I did. I miss playing around with paint. I should really pick up a brush more from here on out.



Speaking of which, here is a drawing I did on a canvas in July but haven't finished yet (maybe this week, I guess) and a painting I did probably four years ago. Biiiiiig change. I went through a lot of phases before settling down recently. I can't believe I was that bad. Oh boy. That's getting painted over soon.


And lastly I used excess paint on a birdhouse I found at the craft store. I may need to paint some sciency looking wooglies on there. Official term, I swear. He's chilling with the Spock my brother Patric and I won from a crane game and the Mary I nearly ran over because someone placed her and a cement lion in the middle of the street. The lion lives with my parents now.

Tomorrow I start my office job. I'm so nervous I nearly just threw up. I've never worked in an office before, and while I'm sure I'll do my best I am still really scared. I hope they keep the air on because from here on out I have to wear long sleeves to work. Crap.

Beard Bass

Hey ladies and germs, in an attempt to get a "Get Pam a Cat" fund going I submitted a shirt to Threadless, it is now at voting stage! Please help!





You should vote as an early birthday present to me.