Dickens Fair 2011 Can Can Painting Week 1

The big goal at this year's dickens fair is to do a fairly large painting of the can can. I'll be documenting the process here on the sketchblog. This is the pencil sketch I managed to get done last week. Still not sure which dancers to use, and whether or not my portable paint sets are going to suffice.

Fox and Crow poster Process

the first step is studies. Here are some ravens and foxes, as they will be my main subject matter.

thumbnails.

and bam, a finished picture

The Lost Church 8 26 2011

Spent another Friday night at the Lost Church. Some big news regarding that venue is coming soon. On to the show!

Finally saw Rin Tin Tiger and damn they were amazing. I cannot recommend this band enough. You can catch 'em busking on Market St downtown SF until they become too famous to bother.

Shareef Ali kicking off his solo cross country tour. By train if I remember correctly. He's spending two months meandering the country, you should check him out if he comes through your town.

Figure Drawing Report 8-16-2011

What the heck do I do with this?

Pineapples are some sort of sign of hospitality from what I understand. Still the unicorn seems a bit presumptuous. I thought it might make a decent t-shirt, what do you think?

bonus: art trade with Olivia Ward

Figure Drawing Report 8-9-2011

A friend let me know about a twice weekly figure drawing session that happens down in the mission. I've managed to go at least once a week and hope to keep up the habit. I'm also digging this slight digital mod process to highlight the drawings a little more.

I got there late so I missed the 1 minutes, and used the 2 minute poses to do some blind contour and quick gesture drawings. The bottom were 5 minute poses, one spent on the model's head from different angles, and the other spent cursing myself for being unable to actually draw the damn pose. The 2 big ones are both 10 minute poses.

20 minute pose, digital post work.

This one's all analog, prismacolor markers.

Victoria and The Vaudevillains at the Lost Church

The Lost Church is amazing. I love this space.

the opening act, This Can't End Well, were amazing. I haven't seen a toy piano used that well since Mike Chase's "Toy Piano Man" at the utah.

The Vaudevillains, pre zombification (which happens to at least one member ever show it would seem)

Bazaar a bit ago, olivia clayton and some guy playing bass

Life drawing from the end of july

Skeleton Key@the blue Macaw

The Skeleton Key at the Blue Macaw, lots of great bands, these were my favorite drawings of the evening

Victoria Victrola and the Vaudevillains

the Adversary

SOD The Yellow Dress at the Oakland Chainsaw Massacre

Sketch of the Day: Fancy Dan at the hotel Utah

Fancy Dan Band, opening for Shareef Ali and the Radical Folksonomy at the Hotel Utah.

Comin down the line

Some really exciting things are in progress. A ton of new trading cards are ready to find homes, I'm working for Josh Hagler on his installation piece "the Evangelists", and I'm collaborating with a Olivia Ward on a Zine. These are some brainstorms for that.

I like this, but it reminds me a little too much of Leslie's work

his dentist is so fired

Hotel Utah preshow 5-30-2011

random thoughts

New Business Cards round 3

Status Updates...

From time to time I think I'm gonna be posting expanded comic versions of my inane status updates. See when you complain on facebook about stupid stuff its annoying for all of your friends, when instead you make it into a comic its Art!

the happy ending? jury duty only lasted an hour, and now I get to prep for work at one of my favorite cafes.

ideas

so i've started a fun little project at the Bazaar Cafe, drawing on their whiteboard. It's interesting due to the passing nature of the medium. It reminds me of the sand mandala a bunch of traveling monks made while I was in college. Immense work, gone without a trace. Anyway, here are some of my ideas for the current image. Stop in to the cafe and see if you can figure out which one I'm using.

intergalactic postman

quick exercise for conceptart.org