Birds For Arms Music Posters

Sphinx Fox made these flyers for our musician friend Stephen Buono and his band, Birds For Arms.  I think everyone in that band is super talented and you should give 'em a listen at this show.  Come out and support your local musicians early next year.

Freak and Zoid

Know these guys?

If not, keep how you are.  They're nothing but stress.

soupcooler

Just finished this poster for my friend Jim's band 'SoupCooler'.  He's been working on this music by himself for the past few years and more recently has been teaching it to other musicians to play live.  I'm looking forward to this one.

www.myspace.com/soupcooler

Purple November Rain Drawing Book

For the month of November I was carrying around a grouping of small (about 4x6 closed) bi-fold pages to keep thoughts and sketches in.  I went ahead and scanned the pages before binding them all together to make it easier; usually yields a flatter, better scan that way.  I'll probably bind this one with my standard coptic binding, just haven't decided on how I want to do the covering yet.  I'm thinking something in purple since its been my color of choice for the moment.  Hope you enjoy these playful little pages:

poster

I drew up this poster for my friend Stephen's band, 'Birds For Arms'.  The other bands are loaded with great musicians as well.  If you like adventure and daring with your music then you'll probably like it.

Store Opening

I've decided to start selling some inventory.  Right now I'll just have a couple things for sale like prints but I'll be adding other items later as I sort through what I have.

First on the list is a etching I did recently during the open studio at Fleischer.
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Title: A Fish In Birdland

Plate size: 6x8

Paper size: 10x12

Print is on grey BFK paper.

This will be an open edition meaning I will print upon order.

Price: $25.00

Shipping: $2.00

Marty Martian

Marty was fascinated by monsters, everything monster.  He delighted in fright.  He surrounded himself in his own creations and made movies with his monster manifestations.  Marty found solace in the monster masks he'd make for himself and he wore them every where he went, even to the grocery store.  He lived in a small town in rural Minnesota.  Eventually the locals started calling him 'Marty Martian'.  He didn't mind much, he mostly found it be a bit humorous and fitting.  Marty didn't take himself very seriously fortunately but eventually began to loose touch with 'boring' people as he called them; that's basically anyone who hasn't him or his monsters.  One day Marty the Martian quit going to school and started growing his own vegetables.

Title: Marty Martian

Plate size: 6x8

Paper size: 10x12

Print is on grey BFK paper

This will be an open edition meaning I will print upon order.

Price: $25.00

Shipping: $2.00

The Honeymooners

(The Honeymooners. 4x20". graphite and ink on arches paper. 2009)

The newly weds gazed from their island resort balcony onto a fantastic sea of meshing visuals, ebbing and flowing in waves of lucidity, but as they looked at each other in the dream they felt a sense of uncertainty about whether or not it was they who were dreaming their dream or if they were merely the spectators in the dream of some one else?

Studio Visit

'Please come in.  Thank you for coming to visit.  Would you like something to drink?  A glass of shiraz, tea?'

'Yes these are some of the things I'm working on now.  This is a collaborative book I'm drawing in with Joy Payton.  Here is a painting of some astronauts examining alien plant life.  Yes this is a monster devouring humans.  Oh these are sketches for a painting commission I'm starting.
Oh yes these are some of the etching plates I have going.  Here are the proofs so far...'

'Yeah, it was good to see you too.  Thank you for coming.'

When in Rome

Here's a 1st state of a etching I'm working on right now based on a Sphinx Fox piece; a collaborative duo with Joy Payton.

I've come up with a list of clever titles for it.  Haven't decided which one I like best yet?

*When in Rome.

*Fish out of water.

*The fish who tried to fly.

*A fish in birdland.

*The grass is always greener until you finally get there and realize you're not physiologically designed to live there.

Orange October

During October I was carrying around this horizontally designed book to keep my thoughts and idea's in.  It's a hand stitched binding in coptic and covered in orange buckrum.  Here's where my head's been this past month:

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San Francisco Chronicles

Some pictures from my recent San Francisco trip; proof I was actually there. 

 

 

Archive from October 6, 2009:

 I had the great joy of spending last week in San Francisco visiting my lovely sister.  It was a relaxing, happy week of ideal weather which made it perfect for walking around and getting to see a different part of the city everyday; thank you sunny, but not humid weather.  Throughout the trip I carried around a small drawing book to pass the time in buses and trains, going from place to place, in bars, restaurants…to keep the mind and hand limber while away from the studio.

I realize that none of the drawings depict being in San Francisco. They could have been drawn anywhere, which is for better or worse?  I promise I was there, people saw me.  Guess it goes to show how much I’m not really interested in drawing from the world of appearance these days…it’s like playing the game ‘I Spy’, but interiorized.

You can click on the image to see full size.  Enjoy: