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Tree Frog

Thinking about turning this piece into a block print....still gotta work out the colors.

Dunno what I was doing

Found these unfinished things from a few years back. I must have been going through an experimental Pop-Art-esque phase. The colors remind me of this book I just got this week of David Weidman's work. I also got this which I highly recommend of a compilation of stuff from the sketchbooks of illustrators like Edel Rodriguez and the great Christophe Niemann -- which totally inspires me to do more when I find time. Time. Ugh.

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Indian Peacock

Been busy moving....but managed to finish up this piece to add to the store. Looks like the studio will packed up for a bit :(.

Japan Relief

Can't donate $1 million like Sandra Bullock but 100% of all proceeds of this piece will go to Japan relief efforts via the Red Cross. You can purchase here.

Work in Progress

Sometimes it seems so trivial posting these things when so much is going on in the world around us (hang in there Japan)...but I hope my small artistic contributions can put some good creative energy out there.

This is to be added for my tentative fall collection of line sheets. Thanks to my new rep Kathy for working so hard!

sketchety sketch

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
— Jodi Picoult

This quote seems perfectly suited to describe abandonments. I'm obsessed with abandonments.
The first two are sketches of urban abandonments. Any place that's been built for, occupied by, and sheltered humans that has been abandoned and left to rot and decay totally fascinates me. I troll sites like WebUrbanist and Lost America for riveting documentations of these. Maybe because I find it such a fitting metaphor for life -- nothing is as it seems, behind facades and walls there are hidden truths and tragedies, unbeknownst to most. Essentially the simple truth that nothing lasts forever; all worldly things die.

There's a strange beauty and frustration that these great structures that took so much time, money, meticulous planning and effort on our parts to build for shelter, pleasure, etc. were erected simply to be abandoned, neglected and claimed back by nature.

Anyways, the next sketch is a pen scrawl from one of my fave places...the Santa Anita Racetrack.

And, finally, some legs (love me some legs!) from the Spring RTW 2011 Runway Collections.

This and that

Suspicious Love for February's Press Print theme.
African Crowned Crane - like those that roam the Playboy Mansion
*SIGH* the ridiculously expensive iconic, lust-worthy, Hermes Birkin (made with textured paper and linocut). These pieces are all now for sale!

Something Old, Something New

Something NEW:
This is something I've been working on.....figuring out how to get my work on a lamp. After trial and error, I created this handmade lampshade with my work on it. I'm hoping to offer it for purchase soon. Hopefully, people will enjoy it! And, a little Q&A I recently did.

I've been into cardboard taxidermy so I decided to make my own deerhead. I created my own template, (which was really challenging!), cut foam core, then tore out the pages of a really old, yellowed book to cover the pieces with.

Something OLD:
I came across this old piece I did a few years back while I was sitting in on a "Graphic Design for Entertainment" class. This was based off Tom Waits' song "Big Joe and Phantom 309." Obviously, I was totally out of my element in this class and this was my attempt at the entertainment style.