up up and away, I say

La di da, di da di dum, 'tis Autumn

And I don't have very much to show for it.

Let's see...work...work...


Jimmy and I made a Jack-o-Lantern, but it has since died. It was lovely for a time, though.



Matt Curtius had us design book jackets...so here's mine. We had this short story, along with another one called "City of Clowns" by Daniel Alarcón to chose from. Measuring everything was surprisingly difficult.




Pencil pencil pencil! My right hand has been stained grey lately.
Remember that model, Travis? How could you not...I sort of liked those two, despite the boring poses. The second is a piece that I did for Roger Roth, who held a Halloween drawing contest this past week. Jimmy's was obviously a bit more fun and active, but I had a good time trying to get the creep factor going. Old family portraits are always so spooky. The last is a particularly boring drawing for a particularly boring assignment: draw a landscape that has some sort of personal meaning behind it. *Yawn* This is from some reference that I shot back in July at the park, and basically chose it because it has just the right amount of depth and aerial perspective, as well as a dose of personal connection. Anyway. Can you see why I haven't really been posting stuff?


This is what I'll be working on today. A fictional assignment from the National Library Association or some such nonsense. Roger wanted us to choose a figure from American history, so I chose two, my homeboys from 1804, Lewis and Clark. We'll see how it turns out. I still have a couple of amendments to make to the drawing itself, so yeah. More on this later.

Happy November!
Grasshopper says hi.

fear and clothing

i killed two birds with one stone this week. Then i felt bad about the birds so I made this poster to cheer me up:


Here's the art, which I'm using for Roger's Halloween assignment (I kinda like the second variation more...even though the colors don't make any logical sense)

Philadelphia

I've just finished compiling a book of sketches from around the city. Locations are based on an old book called "A City Sketched".
Many were done standing, sitting awkwardly, or in the cold wind, so forgive some of the wobblyness and wild inaccuracies.

What I've been working on lately

so um
sorry for being so flaky guys
I can't keep up with you

you've both been posting really incredible work and even though I haven't been commenting
I still look at it all and especially when I'm stuck and need a push

here is a big jumble of stuff
basically everything I've done this semester worth sharing, sortof
almost none of it is finished, so don't worry about giving substantial feedback
I know I haven't given you much to work with

these are a lot of incomplete ideas, things I've jumped into without really knowing where they're going
it's a different way of working than I'm used to but they love it here at Parsons
I don't know as much as I struggled with the sketches at UArts I think it was really good for me



okay so this thing is going to be part of a very large triptych about getting drunk in the desert
this is just a sketch, the final thing will be bigger and not covered in dirt
probably I will paint the figure instead of using graphite
for the future, expect: camels, sappy poetry, more cacti, lots of sand




these are some birds and insects



they will go into the background of this


which will probably not look anything like that when I'm done with it
there will be vegetables and trees I think
that dark area on my chest will be covered in jewelry and flower necklaces
each of the birds will be integrated into the background and I will paint more directly onto the others I think
kind of a layered dreamy nostalgic thing
and I'll hopefully integrate some type, maybe labels for the birds with all that sentimental stuff I love so much


this thing will go into a larger piece where I am hibernating underground
kind of like those museum exhibits that show a cross-section of soil
and then above ground will be winter and trees and things
I will include sleeping chipmunks of course



And here's one of the only things I've finished all semester, a few more matchbooks. This time about plants and memories and gushy stuff like that.



so I think that's everything I've made so far worth showing
hopefull I'll finish the piece with me underground in a week or so
and then the other two by the end of the semester

right now I'm working on a project that is a book that opens and then has smaller books inside that then unfold into things like maps or x-rays or maybe I will just fill the thing with cicadas, I don't know


thank you both for keeping this thing going
it really has been helpful to try and meet the high standards both of you set with your work
I'll get out of my slump soon I hope


most importantly
please both of you come visit me right away
tell me when is good for you and maybe we can like make art together or some hippie fluff like that

Stuff and things

It's been pretty slow lately. Either that, or I've been pretty consistently dissatisfied with my recent work. It's probably a combination of the two, but here are some images:







I used my shoes instead of my face for this self portrait.

And a few bits from my sub-par sketchbook:







Travis, where are you?

Marky Mark

I hope he doesn't mind how unflatteringly I drew him...