I’m going through all my sketch books and scanning them, and came across this one. I think I drew this after watching Where the Wild Things Are (remember the scene of one of the wild things’ model town?)
Category Archives: my artsy stuff
super pig!
print available!
I really liked today’s MEAT SECTIONS illustration, so thought I would post it over here too. You can check out MEAT SECTIONS to see the whole post. You know, if you want to.
please excuse the inattention….
…but there has been a lot of butchery going on.
I’ve been somewhat quiet over here, mostly because of some great things happening with my daily drawing blog, MEAT SECTIONS.
I received a commission to do several more painting for an awesome company (to be revealed as the painting come out. I’m excited!), a request to get one of my drawings as a tattoo(!!) and some requests for prints. So it has been actually pretty busy, which is odd, but good.
I have some cool things to post over here in the next few weeks though, including a step-by-step tutorial on making a Mega Daruma and my post on what inspires me as part of SFgirlbybay‘s clever Blog It Forward mashup.
In the meantime, I invite you to take a gander at my 55 days* of MEAT SECTIONS here or at my flickr site.
*technically there are only 53. I skipped drawing on a beautiful sunny weekend. I’m ok with that.
smoke cloud of doom
Little blocky and the smoke cloud of doom is now available as a print in my shop.
I’m super pleased with the colors on this print. It took A LOT of time to match my original color choices in the original. It really matches the transparency and depth of the original watercolor, which I posted a few months ago.
In other news, The Bruery, a southern California beer brewery caught wind of one of my illustrations of their Melange No. Seches beer and featured it on their blog! I’m super excited (as you can see here) since they make some amazing creative beer. Be on the lookout for some more Bruery beer inspired art, over at my daily drawing project MEAT SECTIONS.
OK. Now I’m off to the beach to enjoy a rare warm sunny February day here in SF!
finally etsy-ed
“His Mustache Wanted More out of Life”
archival print of original ink and watercolor illustration, 5X7 inches
Whew! I just posted my first print for sale in my etsy shop! Very exciting, as I’ve been wanting to do this for way longer than I care to admit.
Last year I bought an Epson R2400 pigment printer off a nice gal from craigslist. Since then, I’ve been waiting to get some material together to sell. This week, I tackled printing and fell down the rabbit-hole of color management. After a lot of frustration and many beers, I think I figured out all the settings.
I’m really surprised how awesome the quality of the print is. It looks almost identical to the original (which is hanging in my living room). I’m excited about being able to sell prints finally, because I have a hard time letting my little guys go.
See original post on “His Mustache Wanted More out of Life”, with alternate titles here.
face it. it’s facets.
I was feeling kind of in a rut lately and decided to just sit down and do something different.
I’m in an e-course taught by Marisa of Creative Thursday, and the last class touched on issues of procrastination and inspiration. I’m always interested in hearing about other folk’s creative processes, because most of the time, I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing. Marisa mentioned that she often just sets aside time to paint, even if she doesn’t have a pre-conceived idea of what she will be painting. I really haven’t ever worked like that, choosing instead just to draw or paint when inspiration “strikes.” This was my attempt at trying a different way for doing things.
This is what I came up with. Much more abstract than usual, but I like it.
just a little….
A little illustration I did a while back. Because sometimes you just get a tiny bit mad.
Illustration Friday – CLUMSY
original 5×5, watercolor and ink on 90lb watercolor paper
Illustration for this week, topic of clumsy.
I’ll admit that I have posted this painting before on my blog, but it just seemed so appropriate that I had to share for this week’s IF.
Original post here, but reproduced below.
I’m a recovering klutz.
Growing up, I seemed to spill everything. all the time. I also had an uncanny knack for whacking the shit out of my elbows on door frames, you know, just walking around the house. I’m going to go ahead and blame that on what must be exceptionally narrow door frames in my childhood home in Texas, since I haven’t done it my apartment here in SF.
But the spilling….yeah, that still happens. I used to get really upset when I spilled things, like it was proof of something wrong with me. ( I think I was really hard on myself growing up). Now, I don’t care. Which is much better. At least for my psyche….not for the carpet (which, now that I’m thinking about it, has a new largish coffee stain, courtesy of yours truly from last weekend.)
At least steve has become an absolute pro at spill alleviation and stain removal. He can add that to the old resume.
Update: Since this originally was posted, I have spilled wine at least twice. In the last month. I may not be so “recovering” after all.
No seriously, you go on ahead.
as usual, click to enlarge
Wow…been awhile. I’ve been keeping busy with my daily drawing project, which you can check out at my MEAT SECTIONS blog.
Having a daily art project has been pretty enjoyable, and I’m getting a lot of good feedback on flickr, especially via the Make Something Cool Every Day group (which is such an awesome source of talent and inspiration). And that’s nice. It makes me feel like less of a fuck up.
This here piece is the most recent non-meat sections related artsy thing. I was inspired by this tutorial on Poppytalk, which was in turn inspired by this great piece on Mustard and Sage.
Let me tell you – this was a pain in the ass. Enjoyable, in a “I’m-in-a-stamping-trance-for-several-hours-and-watched-season-5-of-Grey’s-Anatomy” but kind of tedious. And I felt like a crazy person. Buuuuut, the end result is nice. I’d like to make a larger one, but would probably use stencils instead of stamps like I did here.
If anyone is wondering, the finished piece is about 12 by 9 inches, on canvas paper. I used gouache and a small letter stamp set for the printing. Oh, and the lyrics are from Sunset Rubdown’s “You Go On Ahead” from last year’s Dragonslayer album.
"his moustache wanted more out of life"
4×6″, watercolor and ink on watercolor paper.Part 47C of the “everything is the worst series”
Other contenders for the title of this bad boy included:
- “The moustache* grew too big for its britches”
- “Combover moustache – the next hipster frontier”
- “This was getting out of hand”
and
- “The moustache decided it was time to exact its revenge”
*I know that spell checker believes this to be a misspelling (favoring “mustache”) I think the addition of the “o” provides a tiny bit of class, no?
