Happy Valentine's Day!






I experimented with paper marbling and was able to capture some psychedelic effects on paper. For more, visit my Instagram collection.

Also, check out a new illustration about the balance of opposites that creates wholeness of love. Call it yin & yang, negative & positive, black & white....in the end the two parts equal Love.



INKTOBER!!! and Rumi Hara Collaboration

Recently Rumi Hara, a fellow SCAD graduate and fresh in NYC, came over to play with some ink!  

We collaborated on a large piece of watercolor paper - super fun!  

Inspired, I inked a few drawings for Inktober!  I'm going to post new Inktober pictures every day, so come back for more!

Inking Videos

I recently discovered "Vine" and filmed a few very short videos of my inking process.  I had to hold my phone in one hand, and ink with the other, so the camera is a bit wobbly.   I've gotten a lot of questions in the past about my inking process, and now you can see it in video!

You can also see how dirty the side of my hand gets!

 Enjoy!


Robot and Penguin Thank You Cards!

I created a very elaborate Thank You Card with a window in the front to see the text on the inside of the card. This was really fun to make with a lot of mechanical trail and error involved. I trouble shot a lot of printing and scoring as well, plus, what a great excuse to use my new printer! Printing double sided for perfect registration was not easy, but I figured out ways to get around the registration issues. In the end, all the fuss was worth being able to create and print the card in my own studio, instead of outsourcing the print job! Doing it yourself adds a special charm to everything.

Robots Thank you and wish you a Happy 2014!


Coffin for FINAL Day of the Dead Exhibition @ Young Blood Gallery!























I had the opportunity of participating in the Young Blood Gallery's Day of the Dead Exhibition in Atlanta, GA.  This is my second year being involved in the show, and it's so much fun! I was sent a wooden coffin with the freedom to create anything for the interior.

This year I made a Ghost, a tribute to a friend who died this summer. Around the side walls of the coffin there are 10 small illustrations that tell a story of the life of the Ghost, from birth to death. The stomach of the Ghost has a window into his internal haunting, the love that he left behind.

Here is the "Life Story," illustrations that appear along the walls of the coffin:



If you are in the Atlanta area, please join me for the FINAL Day of the Dead exhibit hosted by Young Blood Gallery and Tweet Design.

Here are the details:

Final Day of the Dead Show
November 3 - 25
Opening Reception Saturday November 3 from 7pm - 10pm

Young Blood Gallery 
636 N. Highland Ave.
Atlanta, GA 30306
404-254-4127

Hours
Tues - Sat from 12pm - 8pm
Sun from 12pm - 6pm


 


Ink Doodles and List From 365 Days by Julie Doucet



















I've finally finished this book. I've been reading it in the bathroom for half a year now. I've been taking notes on all the books, artists, and films that Julie mentions. Here they are:

Sophie Calle
Carson McCullers
Jorge Luis Marrero
Divine Intervention Chronicle of a Disapperance by Elia Suleiman (2002)
Yodon Il Aheyya
Les Inconnus dans La Maison
Georges Leningrad's music
Stereo Total
"How I killed my Fathered" Fontaine French Bourgeoisie
Le Martien De Noel- Cousin Is In- Her uncle produced this film
Amourettes by Anna Sonner book
8 Ball 12
Pasternak
Nabokov
Raymond Guerin - l'app....
Tan Derepente-Argentinean Diego Lerman
Yes By Thomas Bernhard
Mike Watt- L'Diede Cravan
M.Sasek - series of kidbooks about capitals of the world
La Peau de Chagrin
Henry Galais
Conversation secreta- coppola film
Human Nature - film
Willem - Ailleurs
Gaston Lagaffe
"rapport sur moi" Gregoire Bouillier
Ken Park by Larry Clark


Now it will take me 356 days to research all these things. I find that it's good to research the interests of those you admire. Get to the source maybe. I'm not sure.

Raccoon Gocco Holiday Cards

Print Gocco!!!

It is the one night stand of printmaking: easy and uncomplicated yet fleeting and temporary.

Happy Holidays and ROCK ON from my sister and I.




Limmerick



There was an old man with an owl
Who would always bother and howl
He sat on a rail
and imbided bitter ale,
which refreshed that old man and his owl.

Limmerick by
Edward Lear

Illustration by