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Pictures I took

My dear friend Laura Davis is moving to LA at the end of the month and taking a job with Yahoo. She currently resides in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, so I went last weekend to visit her. We tried unsuccessfully to go to the Brooklyn Flea Market, which was in Dumbo. Because of the rain, it closed early. But, I really enjoyed walking around the area (and had some delicious sushi). I took a pictures of some architecture I liked.



This is pretty modern, but I enjoyed this building. It reminded me of Legos.


A big fan of the colums on the Brooklyn Bridge.

And, me in Kid Robot in SoHo. I love toys!


Yesterday I briefly traveled to DC to meet a mystery man on a motorcycle (he was buying my Fleet Foxes tickets from me). The traffic was insane, so I decided to park my car and walk for a bit. I parked across the street from these dilapidated houses:

Bits

Here is a recent page from my sketchbook, plus a small cut out I did this week:



I have been interested in drawing houses lately. I am currently trying to draw a tiger. Much harder than I thought.

A better blogger

I have nothing new to show (yet) but am keeping myself pretty busy these days. To add to the hustle-bustle, I am working on a new blog with Steph. Hopefully it will be launched later this summer! Exciting stuff.


I walk to work. I like architecture and shapes. One of the perks of walking to work is that I get to walk by old architecture nearly everyday. Here is a door that I'm rather fond of:

Love the color and the shape. Quatrefoils FTW.

Something I finally finished up.

I grew tired as I waited for lady luck

Something I worked on this weekend. A bit more involved than a sketch, but no real plans for what to do with this next.

Writing a small article for The South Wing about a facet of the Baltimore art scene. I met with a couple of guys at the Current Gallery tonight and plan on writing about the gallery/studio. Stay tuned.

Reunited (and it feels so good)

Slowly having time to work on my own work. Feels good, man. Real good.
Here's something that should have been posted weeks and weeks ago, but I am just finishing it tonight:

Mother's Day

The front of a card I made for my mom for mother's day. She is currently out of town on a roadtrip with my dad + their golden retrievers.

Speaking of dogs... I love these guys:

It's over and done with

April has, for the last three years, been the shittiest month of my year. I noticed the trend last year. I won't bore the blogosphere with the details, but April 2009 has since ended and I came out (happy to report) fairly unscathed.

I, unfortunately, have nothing new to post, but I am doing work. I am not being lazy. I will be posting new things hopefully later in the month or so.

Mutiny, I Promise You

It's been a little bit. I don't really have a lot to show, but I will post this:


More collaboration with Steph.

Also, I've started using Twitter and have become a bit obsessed. I downloaded an app on my phone so I can check it when I'm out and about. I like feeling connected. Also, I follow Shaq on Twitter. That guy is crazy and writes like a middle schooler.

Some progress. It's been a busy week. I had hardly got to work on this at all until tonight. I redid the hippo/water creature all together because I wasn't happy with my previous paper choices. I began fiddling with the background a bit and like where it's going.

Wilson Hsu:


I really like his work. One day I will own some of his prints for my walls. One day I will own prints of all the artists I like!

Going out of town for a long weekend.

I started on this tonight. It was something I had in my sketchbook.

EDIT:
I found some paper I liked and redid the hippo/water creature. I am not sure which one I prefer.

Behance.net

I'm usually really lazy about joining networking sites and often lack the motivation to really set one up. After receiving an invitation to join behance.net, I made myself sit down and do it. You can post projects on there, so it's a good way to showcase your work. Also, it's a good way for others to stumble upon your page, since you tag not only your profile, but portfolio as well.

Mine mine MINE.

Also: I went on a lovely date to the BMA last week and caught their exhibit, A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger. Overall, I thought it to be a great exhibit and especially enjoyed looking at the work of Fernand Leger. He was a French painter and doing a little bit of research on him brought up a portfolio of not only simple line drawings, but very considered cubist works.

Colorbloods

At a creative lull at the moment, so I thought I would take the surprise away from Steph and post a picture of our collaboration in progress. Get ready, Steph! This baby should be in your hands by the end of the week.

It seems I have come full circle and started to read The Something Awful Forums again. Often times I go months without reading them, but I have recently become interested again. Talking to my brother tonight, he also mentioned how he's been reading as well. Must be a twin thing!

An update of the piece I posted yesterday. I digg the idea of a "rising out of the rubbish" sort of theme, which was my inspiration. I also have really been enjoying drawing on top of cutouts I have created. I am not sure I am going to stick with the black lines, but that's all I can do for tonight.


While in the boonies, I watched a lot of television. Almost an embarrassing amount I'd say, considering what I was surrounded by (trees! I love those things!). I won't go into detail about how much I enjoyed Cops, but I did manage to catch a little bit of I Dream of Jeannie. I used to watch A LOT of Nick at Nite when I was younger, which aired an ample amount of the sitcom. Rewatching the show reminded me of what a great intro it has - great shape design to the Jeannie character and the genie bottle. It reminded me some of Mary Blair. It is no wonder that I am drawn to work like this in my adulthood. I grew up on watching old shows from the 60's and 70's. My childhood nostalgia helps to inspire my art-making.

it was so clear to me that it was almost invisible

I started working on this while away, it's in the prelim stages for now.

So the saying says..

I assembled this together yesterday and am going to take it into Illustrator soon.

I leave for vaycay on Friday for ~6 days. I am, however, bringing my laptop complete with a scanner + wacom tablet so I don't fall too far behind on projects. I'll be in the boonies of West Virgina, ya'll!

I assembled some of these guys today:
To be used in a piece soon.

this tornado loves you!

Just scanned this baby in. Note the black background, making it easy to trace around the image with the magnetic tracing tool in Photoshop. I'll do something with it this weekend.


I got me (+Ryan) some tickets to see the Avett Brothers in May in Philadelphia. It seems I have stopped spending money on clothes and have replaced it with buying concert tickets.

More progress

More progress. From what I posted yesterday. I don't really like tedious things, but for some reason I find it very cathartic to make things like these.


As I have mentioned in my blog before, I do a collaboration with Stephanie Leung that involves stamps, paper, paint, among other things. Steph lives in Oakland, on the other side of the country. A collaboration begins with one of us creating a piece of work (so far using collage) and then sends it in the mail to the other. The other person then works on top/with/in response to what the other one did and mails it back. We stop when we feel like the piece is complete. The one went through a lot of stages, but I like it. It's a dialouge between the both of us.

Steph sends the best mail. All of her packaging is so thoughtful and well considered! She recently decorated a Munny that I had and didn't like how it looked. I'll post a picture of what she did. It was great!