Busy, busy, busy

You ever feel sometimes like you've worked your brain so hard that it feels like it's dripping out of your eye socket? Well, that's kind of how I feel right now. Lot of stuff been going on - two new Hot Wheels under my belt, bringing my total to 14 so far and the ones just wrapped up are easily my favorites so far...as soon as they are released I'll post images of them......also wrapped up a gigposters for Black Crowes and Jucifer, and an entry for a Deviantart contest (fingers crossed).....
Next on the docket - an Aerosmith gigposter with a noseart pinup theme, working on some commission pieces I have piled up, and more research and sketching for the Gods project I mentioned earlier...I'll spill a few more details on that as I make more progress....

Back from Chicago

Well, I got back into town yesterday after spending the weekend in Chicago for Flatstock 13 at the Pitchfork Festival. Had a great time hanging out with everybody and look forward to doing it again next year. For people that don't know, Pitchfork is a yearly music festival with this years lineup including Slint, Gza, Sonic Youth, Cat Power, Mastodon, De La Soul, and wait for it....wait for it....Yoko Ono. Flatstock is a gathering of rock poster artists from all over the country and happens multiple times a year. The poster scene is very tight and I always walk away super inspired and anxious to get back to work, which is good because things kind of piled up a little while I was getting my stuff ready for this past weekend. Here's some pictures from the Flatstock portion of the fest taken by Daniel Danger....check em out....

Flatstock Chicago, Royal Flush, new site, and more

I've been shitty lately as far as updating this thing, but some things of note lately -

- I'll be attending Flatstock13/Pitchfork Festival this year and sharing a booth with my fellow Daytonites, F'nHarsh Design. Last year was a blast despite the upper 90 degree heat, and the lineup for this years Pitchfork Festival is gonna rule. My friend Julie has already informed me that she has two bottles of Jameson's on the ready and considering I have no tolerance whatsoever, I'm sure some hilarity will ensue.

- The new issue of Royal Flush has finally arrived! I just received my complimentary artist copies today and it is quite a sight to behold. Be sure and pick up your copy through the Gigposters classifieds or through the official site.


Shot at 2007-07-02

" Royal Flush is a NYC-based underground Music & Arts Magazine. Founded in 2001, Royal Flush regularly features the finest artists in underground comics, the talents of many top writers, photographers, illustrators and interviews with bands both legendary and obscure. You can't lose with a Royal Flush! For fans of Mad Magazine, Spin, Juxtapoz and Creem.
Royal Flush Magazine is available all over this great country and even in some remote parts outside U.S. borders. Look for us in Borders Books, Barnes & Noble's, Tower Records, Virgin Megastores, Newbury Comics, and many other independent record and comic shops.
We've featured hundreds of pages of underground comics, music, film & DVD, and games reviews, politics, fashion, art and youth/street graphitti culture."

Also, over the next couple weeks I'm going to work on a redesign for my site...it's served it's purpose over the past year, but I think I need to make it more focused and streamlined...sometimes, more isn't necessarily better I guess is what I'm saying. So be on the look out.

And finally here's a logo I just finished up for my friend Jason Vorhese. It's a little bit looser style them I'm used to, but after a couple tight pieces that really tested my patience, it was nice to have a little fun....next on the old docket - a new car for Mattel, gigposters for Jucifer, The Black Crowes, and Aerosmith, and some movie monster paintings for a show in July....stay tuned


Shot at 2007-07-02

Sketchbook Massacre 2007

Every once in awhile I take a matte knife to my sketchbooks and sell off some of my pieces...sketches probably isn't the operative word, because a lot of times I might spend an entire day on one of my "sketches".....anyway, I just put several pieces up in the gigposters.com classifieds...please e-mail or send a private message to me through GP to make sure a particular piece is still available..

A couple new pieces

I was happy to find that Dick Blick carries Dr. Martens concentrated watercolors - was worried they were getting phased out or something...now if I could just hunt down a new palette for them...mine's like ten years old and is looking pretty wrecked. Anyway, here's a couple new pieces. The skull one is for an artful dodger themed art show in Columbus. It's kind of hard to tell from the picture, but there is a separate matte with an acetate window on it. The second one is just a screwing around piece...nothing earth shattering, just getting comfortable with my inks after three lengthy jobs using mostly the computer.



Also it must be mentioned that the white neon has officially died. Apparently the water pump exploded on it and when it did , wreaked havoc on my engine and timing chain. I hate cars. Will someone just invent a teleporter already? Anyway, she was a good car for the 7 years I had her and I'm sure will end up as a 1' foot cube like my last car did.

Brain = fried

For the past four-five days I've spent 95% of my time in the vicinity of my drawing desk / computer area working on stuff for the Warped Tour / Alternative Press brochure....finally done and waiting to hear back from the art director if any changes are required. I'll post pics of it as soon as I'm able....in the meantime, here was a poster I worked on earlier this month for the kind folks at Echo Ditto . They just celebrated their 3rd anniversary and commissioned me to do a poster to mark the occasion....here's the final piece as well as pics from their party where five framed copies were given to the main players. It was a fun project to work on.....

Record art show

Here's a new piece for a painted record group show in Dayton.