Archive for the ‘Studies’ Category

Some paintings.

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

So far I’m calling this one “One Way #101″ gouache on paper.

I want to start exploring  clown faces. Misdirection, they freak so many people out, yet I find myself staring at pictures of clowns when I see them. Gouache on paper.

Moving into Manhattan

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Sketched in Moleskine while on the train. My good friend, Travis Louie, gave me the initial spark for this idea. I recently had the experience of sitting in on a lecture from Barron Storey at the Society of Illustrators. I’ve always dug his work and now I love his attitude too! I also had to do some quick gestures as he spoke.

I’m moving in to a new studio. I’m excited to see how it affects my work. More windows!

Here is the sketch for a painting I’m working on for the “Monsters” show at Copro Nason Gallery in July.

Hey! it’s summer. I should post a bit more, eh?

Friday, June 12th, 2009

I had a perfect weekend. Thurs. Paul Booth worked on my arm tattoo. Friday, I signed out a BMW z8 convertible, drove to East Stroudsburg and stayed in a bed and breakfast with my girl, Molly, and um , there was something… something else. Oh yeah, I JUMPED OUT OF AN AIRPLANE AT 13,000 FUCKING FEET! I didn’t jump, it was more of a plummet. At the entrance to the airstrip, I saved a 4 inch snapping turtle that seemed to have been confused between what a pond felt like and the middle of a road. I put him back and proceeded to what I thought would be my eventual “bone shattering sort of falling into earth death” with the calm that I saved a little snapping turtle. It was the most amazing experience I ever had. I fell around 120 mph horizontally and then drove a stretch of road at 120 mph in a vertical direction! Sunday we drove over to visit Ron English and he showed us around his studio and home and neighborhood.

At the car club.

2 hours before testing gravity.

That would be me in the blue suit throwing up… out?

That’s the Delaware Water Gap.

One of 6 still-life studies with gouache on Bristol. My favorite coffee cup.

Illustration assignments have been eating up my time!

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

20 minute pose with two models at the Society of Illustrators while a 2 piece jazz thing played. I drew one’s front on the other’s back/bottom.

Sketch done on the train a few pages over from the models above.

So Hot!

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Of course I’m kidding! I did this study a while ago. I started doodling on the train and I think I finished most of it at Verb coffee shop in Williamsburg in Brooklyn. It led to the painting called “The Politician” (or 2 Chickens in every pot) It’s hard to keep my titles straight sometimes because I think they evolve as much as the images. This is the 3rd pencil drawing in the “Delineations” show at Ad Hoc Gallery.

Life drawing

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

I hung out with my friend Steve Ellis, a really great artist. We drew at Spring Street Studios in SoHo a week or 2 ago. The model was fantastic. These are just a few from the sketchpad that I pulled. I filled out my pad with this session… almost had to draw on napkins and paper towels. HA!

40 minute pose.

20 minutes.

Two 5 minutes.

More Previews added.

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

A sketch pad page. Ideas I came up with while on the subway…

Less reading

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

More art. Pencil with white gouache on paper.

Summer slumber

Sunday, July 13th, 2008


These are some cars I can drive and one I can’t. I’m still absorbing the pictures I took of engines and shock absorbers and brake pads at the car club.

In an unrelated story I did this drawing while on the ‘L’ train with some dude standing next to my seat staring over my shoulder. I found a new brand of sketch pad. Moleskine switched to a lighter stock and it doesn’t hold up to my pencil leads. The new one, Cache, has heavier stock, and a very similar surface as my old Moleskines. It feels so good to draw on this stuff, I plan to do a lot more! I have two friends named Steve and we all have tentative plans to hang out at a coffee shop and do some doodle’n this week.

I like my neighborhood.

Friday, June 13th, 2008


It was a calm day, a peaceful day. Sunny, like in some stylized happy setting in a romantic movie about the innocent first love between a boy and a girl holding hands while gazing at frogs chirping in a pond at sunset… Little did I know what lurked on the sidewalk! It was a massacre. Reds and yellows oozing everywhere. I almost wretched. Then I saw the black and blues and worst of all… brown. Sorry, I had to share.


Devastating.


It’s always sad to lose a baby blue.


It made me appreciate my own colors safe in their box in my studio.

After a day in New York's mechanical underbelly, I come home inspired to paint strange configurations of the body and the machine.




Upcoming Show Info

Opening July 11, 200
"MONSTER"
Oil on panel 16" x 20" I'll be part of the group show at Copro Nason Gallery called "Monsters". Guest curated by Travis Louie.

Oct 25 2008
Tattoo Culture's Annual Group Show
Tattoo Culture's Annual Group Show and 3rd Anniversary Party. 7-10pm.

OCOTBER 2008
The 13th Hour
(Group Show) HR Giger, Michael Hussar, Kris Kuksi, John John Jesse, Chet Zar, Inky Dreadfuls, Anthony Pontius, Lithium Picnic, Carrie Anne Baade & more.

April 11, 2009
"Draw"
I have a drawing in this group show at The Shooting Gallery in San Francisco, CA curated by Eric Foss and Curse Mackey.

Links

1Fred Harper Caricature
http://www.fredharper.com
My other site

2Molly Crabapple
http://www.mollycrabapple.com
My girlfriend's amazing site