Thursday, March 24, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Work On View
betsy birkey and I have work on view at Dollop Coffee, 4181 North Clarendon Avenue, Chicago, IL 60613 (just south of Montrose).
Stop by if you're in the Uptown neighborhood.
The show is up for the next month at least (possibly longer, Opening/Closing date TBD).
A big thanks to Todd Burbo and betsy for making this show happen and to Amber for tolerating my messes for the past month.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Eye In The Sky
I have a new camera. It's also a phone and a computer and completely overwhelming. This is a test to see if I can do anything truly useful with it (as I sit here watching The Soup).
Here are a few photos out of my sketchbook as samples, hopefully they translate on the other end of the webs.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Thaw
Time is short these days which is why I haven't posted in a few days. March is flying by quickly which means Spring will be here (in exactly nine days).
I started a new job this week and I'm still working on preparing for my show at Dollop Cafe next weekend. Work will be up for viewing on Sunday the 20th. No Opening or Closing scheduled (yet) so stay tuned.
A few more older drawings to share here. Largely unfinished (as usual) drawings these are part of a collaboration with a friend of mine, Andrew Harding. He and I handmade two leather bound books and trade them back and forth after we've worked in them for a while. It's been a while since we traded and I can't wait to see what he's done in the other book. The top two are entirely me and the bottom image shows more collaboration between the two of us.
I started a new job this week and I'm still working on preparing for my show at Dollop Cafe next weekend. Work will be up for viewing on Sunday the 20th. No Opening or Closing scheduled (yet) so stay tuned.
A few more older drawings to share here. Largely unfinished (as usual) drawings these are part of a collaboration with a friend of mine, Andrew Harding. He and I handmade two leather bound books and trade them back and forth after we've worked in them for a while. It's been a while since we traded and I can't wait to see what he's done in the other book. The top two are entirely me and the bottom image shows more collaboration between the two of us.
pencil, ink and watercolor on paper
pencil, ink and watercolor on paper
pencil, collage, oil paint, ink and watercolor on paper
xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Guiding Youth
My intrusive good deed for the week:
I helped steer a kid away from buying a Rapidograph technical pen last night while I was at the art store. It felt good to have possibly saved someone from the hours of toil and the ridiculousness that is screaming at a pen that refuses to dispense its payload. I prefer to spend my time drawing and not cleaning and screaming.
I recommended disposable Micron pens (they were out of my standard .005 black) and dip/quill type pens but ended it by saying he should try out all pens, Rapidographs included, and find what works best for his style. I couldn't tell if his dad was giving me the stink eye for interrupting (because I knew more than he AND the sales associate) but I felt good about it.
Here are some older drawings of mine that I've been looking at recently to remind myself of where I've been and where I'm going. I take a lot of different turns in my work and sometimes I can't remember where I was trying to go with my imagery. If I'm not mistaken I'm still trying to catch up with imagery that I started to generate 4 years ago. There's only so much time before the next generation of imagery comes along for me and tempts me with the confounding shamanistic illusion that I have finally figured it all out. Once that happens it's almost impossible for me to remember my older work and what I had hoped to accomplish. As I was taught in school, it's all about the journey; I just want to have a few postcards to send back home.
---
Goatsnake forever
---
I helped steer a kid away from buying a Rapidograph technical pen last night while I was at the art store. It felt good to have possibly saved someone from the hours of toil and the ridiculousness that is screaming at a pen that refuses to dispense its payload. I prefer to spend my time drawing and not cleaning and screaming.
I recommended disposable Micron pens (they were out of my standard .005 black) and dip/quill type pens but ended it by saying he should try out all pens, Rapidographs included, and find what works best for his style. I couldn't tell if his dad was giving me the stink eye for interrupting (because I knew more than he AND the sales associate) but I felt good about it.
Here are some older drawings of mine that I've been looking at recently to remind myself of where I've been and where I'm going. I take a lot of different turns in my work and sometimes I can't remember where I was trying to go with my imagery. If I'm not mistaken I'm still trying to catch up with imagery that I started to generate 4 years ago. There's only so much time before the next generation of imagery comes along for me and tempts me with the confounding shamanistic illusion that I have finally figured it all out. Once that happens it's almost impossible for me to remember my older work and what I had hoped to accomplish. As I was taught in school, it's all about the journey; I just want to have a few postcards to send back home.
---
Goatsnake forever
---
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Parts & Pieces
These are some older drawings that I found recently, from within the past two years I think.
Mostly journal pages but also some cut out pieces of paintings on paper. I have some ideas about cutting work like this into separate pieces and then reassembling back into new shapes to play with composition and larger shapes. More to come hopefully (once my woodshop thaws from winter's grasp, I'm counting the days at this point).
Mostly journal pages but also some cut out pieces of paintings on paper. I have some ideas about cutting work like this into separate pieces and then reassembling back into new shapes to play with composition and larger shapes. More to come hopefully (once my woodshop thaws from winter's grasp, I'm counting the days at this point).
journal page
journal page
journal page
journal page
journal page
-----
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)