Bad Dads Art Show

This is my piece for Spoke Art's "Bad Dads" gallery show which features art based on the films of Wes Anderson.

I decided to combined two of my favorite things that Wes Anderson has given us: a stop-motion rat and naked Natalie Portman! To tell you the truth I think The Life Aquatic may be my favorite of his movies, but I've seen so much great artwork based on it that I felt like I needed to do something different.

Here is a photo of opening night which I borrowed from Spoke Art's Flickr page. If you check out the rest of the photos you can see all of the amazing artwork as well as a ton of fans dressed up as their favorite characters.

Spoke Art is located at 816 Sutter Street in San Francisco, CA. This show runs until November 24th.

Just a goofy anecdote, when I saw the latest Anderson film Moonrise Kingdom in the theater a middle-aged woman in front of me remarked that it was "the worst movie she'd ever seen," which my friends and I couldn't help but laugh at. She clearly had no idea what she was getting herself into. She must have thought it was something staring Julia Roberts that ended with a wedding.

My Sesame Street Shirt is here!

The Shirt I designed for Threadless' Sesame Street design challenge is now up for sale!

I'm so excited to be a Threadless alumni and have an official piece of Sesame Street merchandise under my belt.

It comes in mens, womens, kids, and babies' sizes; and I can't tell you how much I love the kids shirts and onesies. If anybody buys one for their little one PLEASE send me a photo, I would love to see it in action.

Some of the sizes look like they are going quickly, so please go here to buy one!

Dr. Sketchy's update Part 2

A continuation of yestrday's post, here are some more drawings from the last few sessions of Dr. Sketchy's Charleston, the monthly art event that combines burlesque and figure drawing.

Vampirella session:

Tank Girl session:

Mermaid session:

Dr. Sketchy's update Part 1

Here are a few of my drawings from the last several sessions of the Charleston, WV branch of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School (a social event that combines burlesque and figure drawing!)

 Festivall themed session:

Model's choice session:

Steampunk session:

Part 2 tomorrow!

Tales From the Crypt

The Cryptkeeper! This is one of my pieces for this year's Artmares Show which opens at Contemporary Galleries in Charleston, WV on Oct. 24th.

The Cryptkeeper was always the coolest part of Tales From the Crypt; I remember thinking that the series should focus on him rather than the stories he told. 
 
Also, when I was doing research for this piece I rediscovered the Tales From the Cryptkeeper animated series, which I had completely forgotten existed.

Strange Kid Comix Issue 3

Here's the first page of a comic I did for Strange Kid Comix Issue 3. (You'll have to wait for the magazine to come out to see the whole thing!)

I've done comics for both of the previous issues, and somehow I seem to end up a doing a longer story each time! I almost had to back out of this one for schedule issues but my collaborators urged me on and gave me a bit of leway because they really thought I was the right artist for this piece, so thanks to them!

As you can tell, this comic is based on the show Twin Peaks, since the whole issue is themed after 80s and 90s television. Truth be told I don't know a whole lot about the series, which is why it was great that the story was in the hands of comics writer John Rozum, who has just announced that one of his comics is in development as a series at NBC!

A small plug for our comic has also appeared on ComicBookResources.com

Art Inspired by Premium Cable

Tonight is the opening of More Than You Imagined, Art Inspired by Premium Cable at Bottleneck gallery in Brooklyn, NY.  I have work in the show, (above) as does my Marshall College of Art & Design classmate, Tessa Morrison!

Rather than base my piece on a specific cable television show I chose to draw inspiration from the 1980s HBO intro they used to show before every movie. The camera started out on a family watching television together, then it swooped over an amazingly elaborate model city and finally panned up into space where the HBO logo floated into view and let you know that the feature was about to start. You can watch it here:



When I was a kid we only had 23 channels and for some reason one of them was HBO, so this intro is the "premium cable" memory that is most embedded in my brain.

A few years ago I found a video that shows the months of work that went into this minute-long intro:



The fact that the HBO logo and star burst lighting effects were not done digitally is amazing, isn't it? And you have to love that 80s soundtrack.

Here's a small writeup about the show on Nerdlocker.com