Sketchbook shenanigans

Left - watercolor tests. Right - Teachers from Memory project with continued: Mr. Kerr, my 7th grade math teacher and football coach at the University School of Milwaukee in 1984. He yelled and screamed and stank of cigarettes. I was a brat, a shitty student and terrible at math and he was mean - not a good place to be when you're 12. He was known for kicking the desk REALLY HARD of students not paying attention. Rumor had it that he was a P.O.W. in the Vietnam war and his captors filed down his bottom teeth. I was terrified of him. We used to chuckle imagining him out in the real world (not in school) and asking a drug store cashier in his military screamy-voice for a box of his unfiltered cigarettes. I went out for football (I lasted exactly one week) and a friend of mine literally broke his arm during practice but Mr. Kerr told him to suck it up and finish the scrimmage. The kid came to school a couple days later with a huge cast.

Watercolor makes everything more delicious

Proposal: a sandwich themed coloring book. I could corner the market for office workers that have nothing to do during their forced, hour-long lunch break. I call this page: WHEAT-MAYO-SWISS-BACON-LETTUCE-TOMATO-HAM-WHEAT-TURKEY-CHEDDAR-WHEAT. I'm hoping the titles can help the colorers determine which markers to use. The back could have a color key so the colorers would know if they got it right.

Mr. Forté - from Teachers from Memory series

From our “Teachers from memory” series (with Renee French) - Mr. Forté, a 7th grade gym coach at the University School of Milwaukee. He had a strong native Bronx (Brooklyn?) accent (before I had any idea what the Bronx/Brooklyn was). He was a pretty nice guy though intimidating with his tinted glasses, thick stubble and hairy cheek bones. I lasted a full 1.5 years at that school before "not being invited to return" midway through 8th grade.

Test wall drawings

This 16 sq. ft. indoor drawing in acrylic paint applied on my studio wall (4 surfaces) with a brush is a test for a series of wall drawings that I intend to install this fall.

Sketchbook Shenainigans

2 more sketchbook Huggy Lungs (where the lungs enthusiastically hug the heart) and a young Tom Baker with golden locks.

In other "news" - Artnet called me either refers to me as an "Art World Personality" or at least refers to a person I was fighting with as one. Oy vey.

McSweeney's Kickstarter rewards

Sending out rewards for my donation to McSweeney’s Kickstarter. Two custom donut watercolors. “Stuck Ball,” and “Prolapse Pool.” Pen and ink and watercolor, each 8" x 10" - 2015.

Donut Diagram Shirt Silkscreening

This is how they rock at Kayrock Scrrenprinting in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Nein

Custom donut drawings for my (now ended) Kickstarter campaign. Click each donut to see what word the person who ordered had requested. But PLEASE CALM DOWN - you can get a custom-made donut drawing for yourself right here.

Escher Spooge

10" x 12" pen & ink and watercolor

Escher Spooge. 10"x12" pen & ink and watercolor. Still interested in these nonsensical "room" structures, trying to push them to see what happens. I'm so fucking sick of drawing little tiny beds and picture frames to fill the "rooms" but one interesting aspect to making the room drawings is the initial "building" stage where I'm making the walls and stuff. Making it all make spatial sense is an interesting challenge once they get really complicated. I set up basic logical rules to follow when penciling it in. This time around I'm trying to unfollow that particular spatial rule as much as possible (but still within certain parameters) to see where it leads. I think I might try this one on a larger scale. Rules for this one: keep all widths the same for all planks, limit color palette (though this can be pushed much harder), constrain overall shape to paper parameters (no bleed, which implies infinite space) to keep it warm and claustrophobic. It's interesting to see what little tweaks make it easier or harder to look at for any length of time. Adding the Spooge kinda ruins the Escher illusion a bit. And that's ok.