schneebin it

Well I am about done moving to my new place- and I did some freelance design work over the weekend (pay da biiiillz). I like the new setup- it has much more room than previously (although nothing is gonna top my personal studio in Italy...then again this room has heating).




Work continues on the large-scale watercolors. I really wish I could get 5 of these done a month, but I always am so darn busy with everything I don't have enough time for it all... but alas such si the nature and I am tyring to persevere. Really though, there is little excuse and I will be updating/working much more often now that i am a bit more settled- AND FINALLY over my chest colds... yeesh.

I have a chestcold... AGAIN

This is a cieling-tile that I did for a local coffee-shop that i frequent. The entire cieling is covered in these- some good- some bad... but I thought itd'd be a real shame ot not leave my mark on one of my favorite coffee shops. The Alleycat. So i put together an ink drawing of a coffee machine. Very comic-y and from a good perspective. I sketched it (using a lot of ruler lines for perspective) with blue mechanical pencil lead .9mm and then burshed pure ink with a #2 brush by Raphael.



This piece is probably the starting piece of a series on world war 1. I did a lot of sketches in my skecthbook- and kind of grabbed the best poses from all of them. The bottom line is the 'ground' of the vanishing point- so it is basically on the ground looking up. but from a distance (so you dont see up into their noses) I hope to hae this finished this weekend. This piece- I have tried0 to work on it whenever I have time and am forcefully trying to avoid the inner-discussion of 'when is a good time to paint' because your work can become sacred if you're not careful and thats bad- cause it slows you down and isn't reproducable. You should work at 10% and not worry if this isnt your best moment to be working- just work damnit. 3 bad ones is better than 1 good one in my opinion- because in the long-run 100 bads is gonna make you better than 5 goods. it will.


Here is my art in one of the frames I built... I will put a how-to up one fo these days.


sorry for the bad pic. I dont know where this one is going and if it is going ot be finished or not... ugh im struggling with it, and it is HUGE

Hey Justin- WHERED YOU GO?!

I didn't go anywhere- instead I am busy as I can be (with a 9-5 job... LAME) but besides that my camera is broken0 and what is an art blog if I can't show you my work. Another reason/excuse is that I haven't been producing art... WHAT? you say... Well I have been doing art-related things... including (but not limited to) building frames. My work in frames looks awesome- I am serious. Like I didn't know how much a frame can add to artwork- but seriously it does- like in a crazy way. I will post a how-to sometime.

SO here is how things are gonna go:

1. I will get my camera back from jordy Oleson (or I will break his knuckles)
2. I will post pictures of my art in-frame
3. I will post pictures of skecthes I was doing for a now-probably-canned comimc idea about an assasin.
4. I will post sketches of some sick WW1 art that I am doing comic-style, with lots of guns and death and coolness.
5. I will post the in=progress HUGE watercolor rocket-building rpcoess (see blue sketches below)
6. I will post pictures of the latest watercolor- it deviated form the tried and true... btu ya gotta experiment (that includes drugs!)
7. I will post pictures of the over-sized WW1 piece I am going to start once I finish typing this email.... well I gotta poo.... then I will start.
8. All will be well with the cosmos.

THANKS FOR READING EVERYONE- It is awesome that you follow little ole' me