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.

James Train and Other Sketches

I haven't really been arting very much lately. A sketch here, a random painting there...



I will hopefully get this done before school starts. I don't have the energy to explain what the entire painting in a whole is going to be but, I can tell you that what you're looking at are brains and not entrails.


"Put it in the trash can! You don't want the raccoons to make off with his pride!"


And a Julian.

Aborigines and Didgeridoos

For the past week and a half there has been an on going party at my friend Zach's house. There has been a constant flow of amazing people coming to stay and party.
There was one day where we pooled all our money and tried to throw a fantastic and wild party. This was the The Aborigine Party.
The idea was we'd cook food in the ground, cover our bodies in paint, play drums and didgeridoos and dance around a massive bon fire.
It... um... didn't quite turn out like we planned.
Our food didn't cook, we didn't play any instruments and our fire failed.
Aside from that, it was really fun, but it could hardly be called an Aborigine party. We will hopefully be attempting another one soon.
Here are some pictures!


James, our minstrel. This was the best picture taken from the party.


Our food basket. It did not cook at all... We had to use tinfoil and ovens eventually, it was terribly disappointing and un-aborigine like.


Julian Tavormina digging the food pit!

4th of July Sketches

There are lot of weird looking people on the beach.
I drew them when I wasn't busy being ravaged by the sun. I only wish I got more drawings done.

Venus