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:

Eat Your Feedback

Ever wonder what you'd taste like if you were served on a plate?  How you sound to others in conversation with people who have never met you?  How you are received based on what you say, or more superficially, how you dress can sometimes be shockingly counter to how you think or see yourself.  Sure you're fairly well acquainted with yourself but ever step out of that perception to take in another person's point of view?  If not, you probably well should.  I recommend putting up the objective mirror on yourself to see where you stand. You know what's NOT like that?...a television set.  Those things sure dish out a lot of mind numbing waste!  They never self-reflect.

These guys are on the march against television.  They represent the imagination with all its multi-faceted mysterious manifestations.  You see it is the television box in your very home that dulls your imagination and turns minds into gelatinous fodder till eventually your only good for pumping gas and listening to gummy 'music' sounds, or buying jeans with holes in them...you're buying clothes that have holes in them!!  Stay sharp people, they're coming for your very sense of self!

The Yellow Pages

The Yellow Pages are yellow pieces of paper with collage material as well as some hand drawing on them.  They are a catalogue, or collection of disparate images I found interesting at one time in the past that I thought I'd like to use in the future.  The pieces you see in The Yellow Pages made it all the way to the finish line.