dive! dive! dive!

these are a few preliminary sketches for a large wall piece at the streets 2k9 mural event in new brunswick, nj. the arctic red jellies and pacific sea dragon didn't make the final cut. the diver mask was created as 4 layer stencil, the rest of the marine life was freehand spraypaint and paint marker. you can see the finished piece here.

The Northeast Corridor Challenge

a whole month since the last post? yikes. anyway i gave myself the challenge of doing a quick drawing at each stop while taking the train from hamilton to nyc. the train only stops for 30-60 seconds and i only (ok, mostly only) drew while the train was stopped. the final drawing is from the post office steps on 8th avenue looking at penn station/the garden. it was a fun excercise for sure...

overdue dump...

busy as hell with the new house (visible in one of the sketches) but wanted to try to keep the practice of regular posts up... hopefully i will.

illustration friday: cracked

ink and fabric marker on cardboard found by the copier.... i roll with what i got handy...

cover and closing....

thank god for random notepads... we closed on our new house yesterday and the only thing to keep me sane while we waited for some documents to roll around the interwebs were these little pieces of paper... i just scanned them all at once...












also, i wrapped up another pocket sketchbook... one of the last things i do is the cover. paint marker and sharpie...

open bar.

my wife was in a wedding this past weekend. since i only really knew, my wife and the bride (and groom to a lesser extent) it left me lots of time to doodle. and what better to do while doodling then have a few beers. and what better place to have a few beers then at an event that features those two magic words.... open bar... which leads to that heineken watercolor. it looks a little drunk itself. considering it was painted at the end of the night, and many had come before it, we can let it's structural issues slide.

it's been a minute...

time to dump a few things out of the ol' pocket sketchbook... a few quick ones from the college and then what i did to pass the time waiting to find out what the damage would be for stupid (on my part) traffic fines... the little guys at the bottom are bits of watercolor paper that i keep in the back of the book to leave behind... but the way robbinsville works, i felt it better not to leave anything behind, those humps would have hit me for littering....