spreads from the mini-book i made as a christmas present for my mom.
liquid acrylics on rives bfk
for my drawing class, we were required to do a series of at least nine drawings on location in at least 3 separate shops on a single street. i chose the section of graham avenue near the L-train station, since i walk through it every day and wanted an excuse to poke around in a few places i’d developed a curiosity about.
meet variety café, emily’s pork store, and grande monuments.
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this week in life drawing class, we had burlesque models acting out the process of transitioning from street clothes to full burlesque costume/persona. these are india ink and liquid acrylics (the magenta bits) w nib pen.
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a couple sketchbook spreads of live models– astonishingly enough, no nudity! these are india ink w nib and brush, in a 12×18″ sketchbook (aka larger than i know what to do with).
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here are some spreads (sans text) from the 32-page children’s book (based on a previously documented overly-complicated popup structure of the same name) that i did for the Proto Pulp children’s book show at Art and Invention Gallery in nashville. the book tells the story of a little girl that gets kidnapped by rats after her father’s death. the concept of the ‘rattenkönig’– a group of rats who get knotted together at the tail while burrowed together underground– is used as a visual metaphor for the grief experience and the search for connection out of absence.
anyone in nashville: the show is up until october 23, so be sure to check it out and see all the awesome books made by local artists!
here are a few spreads (sans text) from a children’s book i illustrated recently for deborah allen. the story’s about a christmas tree that faces off with urban development with the help of unlikely friends.
spreads appear below, or larger in my website gallery
a few drawings-in-the-dark from last friday night at joe’s pub in nyc, featuring terrible inaccurate likenesses of bob dipiero, scotty emerick, david lee murphy, josh thompson, and craig morgan.
anyone living in nashville, i’m super jealous of you, because i moved to brooklyn just in time to miss the super exciting indy children’s book show at Art and Invention Gallery. several nashville artists (mostly printmakers, i think) produced original children’s books for the show, along with associated merchandise, like handmade stuffed animals, etc!
i’m in it as well, and took the excuse to convert that popup book with the pink and the rats and the sadness into a 32-page flat book with actual words and (hopefully) slightly less inscrutability.
poster by julie sola
last week i spent five days mostly staying out of peoples’ way on film sets for the independent westernto kill a memory. in attempting to look busy and purposeful, i managed to fill 44 sketchbook pages with observational drawings of the movie-making process.
i kind of loathe working with markers, but i’m trying to be more adventurous about color and thought the arizona film sets would be a good opportunity to experiment, since the ink washes i favor wouldn’t really be practical on the go. it took me a while to get comfortable using color to DRAW, rather than just for the coloring-in of drawings. friday and saturday were a little shaky, but by sunday my brain was starting to adjust to the idea.
locations included old tucson, mescal, and various assorted middles of nowhere. i loved the crazy boulders from sunday’s location, and mescal (sat + mon) especially was really cool– a whole old west town built as a movie set and left to rot.
overdo commission i’m supposed to be working on:
what i spent most of yesterday afternoon making for myself:
see below for glamour shots of my pet book’s new outfit.