Double Postin'

A project to accompany this poem:

On the pad of my thumb
are whorls. whirls, wheels
in a unique design:
mine alone.
What a treasure to own!My own flesh, my own feelings.
No other, how ever grand or base,
can ever contain the same.
My signature,
thumbing the pages of my time.
My universe key,
my singularity.
Impress, implant,I am my self
of all my atom parts I am the sum.
And out of my blood and my brain
I make my own sun and rain.
Imprint my mark upon the world
what ever I shall become.
- Eve Merriam

Stephen Gardner: The Figure Drawing Saga

It's been an awful long time since I uploaded any work. It's unfortunately been due to an awful art slump. I've only just recently began turning it around... ever so slowly.
Every figure drawing class up until this week has been equally painful to rubbing my face with a hot iron and about a frustrating as nailing jello to a tree.
Though, this week proved to show some promise and fun.
Not to mention our new wonderful professor, Stephen Gardner! What a delightful surprise to find out he was taking over for Dorothy (though I miss Dorothy dearly and wish her my best).


Anyway, the class has been extremely fun and I can already see more strength my drawings. I'm enjoying it, its been unlike any other drawing class I've had.
Anywho here are some of the drawings I've done recently:






Crashinda* is fierce. I enjoy drawing her.
Anyway, I hope things continue to go upward.


With help from good friends and good professors I'm sure I can get through any stupid slumps.
YEAH TEAM FIT.






*I think her name is Grashinda or Crashinda... something shinda... shes good.

More QW

The Next batch of finals. :)

QW Finals

Illustrations for a book in progress.

The Joy of Disney

The most magical place on earth!

Pachyderms!

Pen and Ink, promoting the AMNH.
I think Elephants are becoming my favorite animal!

Beatles and Bison

Here are some recent projects I've finished!
I apologize for not updating with anything substantial in awhile.

These are projects for school, excluding Bison piece.





The lovely Beatles, Rendered in gouache. Our "Premier or Grand Opening" project.
I decided to depict the Beatles arrival in the states for the first time. :)






A few friends of mine and I were coming up with the various scenarios that went on in each others heads. Some of them were quite hilarious and were deemed worthy of an illustration. I will defiantly be doing more of these when I have the time. (This one will eventually be a hyper rendered oil painting as well.)
This is the mind of Alex Krokus (His blog can be viewed here:http://akrokus.blogspot.com/
In his mind, he is wild bison running merrily with giraffes as Old Glory flaps in the wind behind him.






Another piece for school. We had to design a beverage ad that advocated halloween parties and such.
I decided to base mine on the Dia de los Muertos celebration.
I started off with acrylic, and switched over to gouache. Oh dear, I need to escape from gouache.

Sketchbook Pages

A few things from my sketchbook I thought I'd share.

"I have three hours of Art History that I don't really need to pay attention to... How about a hyper rendered pen drawing of The Queen?"

Ecology makes me think of trees and other natural fun things. Bam! Swirly trees!

Some Mola Mola sporting the face of my good friend Chris. I'm proud of how unsettling this is.

A still life of found objects. 

A Raccoon Skull that goes by the name of "Flakey" Pete, a whiskey glass and an empty bottle of Chambord.

Some Assorted Tidbits

Select things from my new Moleskin

Julian :)

This weekend I attended the Decemberists' Lottery concert. It was absolutely fantastic!

Here are a few shots from the show. I apologize for the low quality.

Mmmm. Colin! :D

Lazy Jelly Sandwiches

These few weeks have been nothing short of wonderful.

It has mostly consisted of obscure instruments, questionable art supplies, delightful people, breakfast burritos and extreme mammals.

Here are some of the final pages of my moleskin

"I'm seeing bones! I love it!"

Brought to you by Tom Waits.