Xmas

This is a series of artworks created as Christmas gifts. They are all cutouts from the sketchbooks, mounted on pins on old pieces of wood.

This first one is for a friend, who tickles.
This one has something to do with the painful and fruitless separation between those whose labor with their bodies and those who labor with their minds. Both suffer.

A warning, a threat.

This is called Against The Specious Ones. It is in celebration of a friend who has recently discovered her strength.

Miscellaneous eaters

The persistent eating of non-nutritive substances is the primary symptom of pica. Those who suffer from pica eat paint, plaster, hair, cloth, sand, bugs, leaves, pebbles, and animal droppings. (Pica is Latin for magpie.) We are reminded of the Chris Adrian character, Pickie Beecher.


We decided to rerender the Miscellaneous Eater in the style of Seattle/Denver artist Carrington Smithers. First, we tried this:

Then, we realized that we needed to go a lot heavier with the dark 5B pencil on the outlines:

The Miscellaneous eater was inspired by this patch, which was found in an abandoned third floor attic bedroom:

Thanksgivings

We ate a Thankgiving, then we went to our homes and took a naps, then we woke up and ate another Thanksgiving, over which we got to talking about painting, which caused us to have the idea to paint a mural in a stairwell, and then we ate some special home-made ice cream over pecan pie and drank some wine, and then we got really excited about this mural, so we changed into ripped jeans and turned our shirts inside out and someone made screwdrivers and we drank them and someone put on Sleep's Holy Mountain and we all started painting. Here is a little video of where it's at right now. More to come, birds and tongues.

You tickle my fancy

A zoom-in of a section from that last post.

Recent sketches

This one I did today while on break at work. I almost always have only one thing in a drawing at a time. One face. One marmot. Here I am trying to put more than one thing in a drawing and have it be a compositional whole. Also, I'm trying out a new way to draw ghost teeth.


Enraged at the suggestion:



I made this for a party we had. Actually, there was no party. Which was fine by me. The invitation is my favorite part.


Also done on my break. A record of various things going on in and outside of my head:


Insipid. What keeps them going? Why don't they just stop?

Darkness, yarn.

From the sketchbook

Here are a few drawings from my sketchbook. These were done over the past few months.



This one was done while on break at work. I was ruminating over the smallness of my rate of pay.


These shapes were inspired by the pattern on a piece of fabric in my house.


This is a comic strip I did after returning from Las Vegas. To me, Las Vegas = steak, tie, milk, prescription medication, and betrayal.

Here is the finished door, which was the interdimensional portal for the play Portal To Bollyweird:




And here is a closeup of the Bollyweird side. Poppies (P. somniferum or P. orientale, I'm not sure which) and the symbols indicating an ancient spell for astral flight:

Some Mural Ideas

While in Cambodia this summer, I had some ideas that I'd like to use in a mural someday:

do-wrong & no-do-wrong

I like sonar

More poster

I put my sketch into the computer, then added a few things. (For some reason the image turns blue and purple when I upload it.)

Poster sketch

This is a sketch for a poster for the musical. I will put the Eastern skull in the blank space on the lower right.

The Eastern Skull

Today I started to paint the Eastern skull.

Painting the skull

The Weird West door. It is being painted by me.

Digital Collage Sketches

I used Google image search and found some images I like, then I patched them together to get an idea of how this door might look. In the actual door the colors will be different and there will be colored background, but I think this is how the basic layout will work.

Weird East

Weird West

This is a sketch for a corner ornament for the door that leads from the Weird West to Bollyweird. Spades. Gears. Skulls. This ornament is for the Weird West side of the door (obviously?).

Skull Test

I am working on some ideas for the sets for this year's Halloween musical. Here are a couple sketches for a door. This door will be an interdimensional portal between the Weird West and the Weird East. These drawings are for the Weird West side of the door.