Confidence….Paradigm Gallery

I was kindly asked to take part in a group show with a stellar line of folks a few weeks ago. If you don’t have anything to do this friday in Philadelphia, please swing by Paradigm Gallery to check out the show.

I was able to take a few quick photos of the piece before getting it out the door, but here’s a preview of what the painting looks like.

Seattle Met: Womens Health Annual

Happy New Year Everyone! I got a wonderful phone call a week before Thanksgiving to work on a series of nine pieces for a special insert in the Seattle Met/Portland Monthly. I worked with André Mora at the Seattle Met on this huge project, and he is probably the most laid back, easy going, art director I had the pleasure of working with. 

Typically I like to show my process in these post’s but because there would be a massive amounts of sketches to show, I figured I would just post the images. Here are my fav’s…

“Understanding your hearts health”

“Active Living”

“Choosing the right doctor to deal with your needs”

“Modern advancements in Breast reconstruction”

“How pregnancy helped a women deal with her M.S. symptoms”

Thanks for checking this out!

ALSO on a side note: Huge thanks to my dear friend, Jenn Whitney, for giving me a huge intro on how to build my new website using wordpress and did some trouble shooting for me too. I am really happy with it. Enjoy.

Later 2011, Hello 2012!

“RELAX, the world isn’t going to end in 2012” – Honolulu Magazine

I have to say it, THIS YEAR HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE!

Most of it has to do with so many of the amazing illustrators I have befriended in real life and over twitter, Without you guys support, and friendship, I wouldn’t know where I’d be. Huge thanks to the many art directors/musicians I have worked with who have hired me to make a ton of really fun artwork. Sometimes once, sometimes twice, and sometimes every month. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you so much. Lastly, I have to thank my wonderful roommates for keeping me social, and kinda inspired.

Goals for 2012 – Work Hard + make time to live.

1. Stop worrying so much… The world is not going to end, the milk is probably still good, pretty sure I can do a 4 hour deadline, is my hair getting to long, did I already wear this shirt, Am I forgetting something…. D:

2. Staying in touch. I have worked with a lot of wonderful people, and hung out with a ton of creative people this year. I am totally flattered to work/hung out with so many rad people. I want to know how I can better stay connected with you guys without in 2012?

3. Truly understand how “I” define my work. It’s always interesting to hear other peoples responses of what they see/feel/think about my work. Often times, my work is described as “fine art illustration”, “Vintage colors”, “painterly textured, sorta narrative”. I always thought of myself as a conceptual/poetic illustrator who creates his images on the computer. I think how “I” define myself is important to explore because I run a business, and how I define myself helps guide others on how they can use me. I also don’t want to get to caught up in definition either because it can totally suck you dry.

4. Working on larger projects… Series of book covers? T-shirt line? Vinyl cut murals for a pop-up shop(s)? Corporate Annual Reports? Skateboard Decks? Multi-layered AD campaign involving printed posters, interactivity for the web/tablet, and other printed ephemera?

5. I want to make books…. I’ve got asked to make two childrens books this year that both got killed in the early stages. Lets make this happen guys. Childrens book, Adult picture book, Lets make a nice collection of images together.

6. Live. A few close friends of mine tell me to often that I need to leave my apartment more. This is true. So I plan on taking a few days to a week off every month starting in January. Illustration/handlettering is wonderful, but I’d like to think I have deeper interests than just that.

So That’s That! Thank you again guys for getting me stoked everyday to create things for myself and for you. I am really lucky to be able do this every day. HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS!

Heres a piece I did for this weeks Seattle newspaper, The…

Heres a piece I did for this weeks Seattle newspaper, The Stranger, about a writer talking about his youth living in Zimbabwe. He mentions going to a Bruce Springsteen concert with two upset blond Swedish women, and how awkward it was to listen to The Boss open up with ‘Born in the USA’ to a crowd of Africans. YIKES! You can read the article here – http://www.thestranger.com/…….

Thanks Aaron!

I’ve got Allison Weiss’ back!

If you help Allison Weiss, break the $30K on her kick starter, I will mail you this drawing a week from today.  :)

Arizona Iced Tea x Art Basel

A week before Thanksgiving, I got a call to collaborate with Arizona Iced Tea to do a window display mural for one of their PR events at Ricochet Lounge during Art Basel in Miami, FL. They loved my personal work and wanted me to do whatever I wanted as long as I put Arizona Iced Tea somewhere in the image.

The window display is loosely based off of one of the pieces I made for my duo show with John Malta. Unlike a lot of the editorial work I do, I wanted to make a piece of work that you could build your own narrative to. Is she waiting for her friend to come out to go bike riding? Did she stop on that part of the road because she was curious to what was going on in the house?

Lina Hargrett, who was my point of contact for this project, sent me a cell phone picture of the 12 foot window display as she drove by. Even with the sun glare, it looks good to me! I’ll post a better photo soon when I get it.

Lastly, the fine folk at Arizona Iced Tea were kind enough to include me in their artist lounge on their website with some examples of my work. It’s a bit buried on their site so click here if you want to read my interview…

Big thanks to Arizona Iced Tea, Lina, and Ricochet Lounge for letting me take on such a huge project.

Collaborate

This is an image I made for a poster that switched gears last minute, and is taking a different direction. I wanted to trim it down a bit and show it on my blog anyway because I really like it. The idea behind the image is of two musicians who are collaborating with one another on music. Hence the connected guitar neck. Cool right?

Valencia posters – part 2 of 2

This is the last of two posters I worked on for the band Valencia. This poster originally was going to be for a show they were playing in New York but decided to cancel that show and have two posters for their Philadelphia show.