Star Island sketchbook for the week

Sketchbook stuff from Star Island (NH) last week, part of the Isle of Shoals

Dogwood day

Sketches

1/6 - Some new sketches that in the fall, will become giant fuckin' sexpot color bombs.🍆🌮

PRIMUS poster!

I saw PRIMUS at this very venue in Milwaukee back in the early 90's so I was very excited that I was asked to make a poster for a show at the same place! There are a few left and can be bought here. Ships out Aug. 9, 2017.

5 color print by the geniuses at Kayrock Editions in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Get yours here.

5 color print by the geniuses at Kayrock Editions in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Get yours here.

Silkscreening

8" x 10" silkscreen edition of 6, available here.

8" x 10" silkscreen edition of 6, available here.

It's been more than 30 years since I did any silk screening myself. Our high school was just phasing out technical trade classes in the late 80's and we had an amazing "graphics" industrial-style classroom (letterpress, silkscreen, offset printing) with no teachers (they all retired) so it was kinda of Lord of the Flies in there. I sort of learned from other students but not really - mostly just made Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction t-shirts to sell in the parking lot of concerts. I'm hoping to start making small editions in my studio and making them available for cheap, in my store this fall/winter. Click for more like this.

Camp 'n Sketch

Lilly Mugshot

I love to obsess over [drawn] lines. How it's not just a 'line' but how each side has a surface and that there's a variable difference between those to surfaces - they have a relationship to each other. I went to grad school for printmaking but really I only wanted to learn more about drawing. I wanted to know stuff that I never understood, like when, where and why to make lines thicker and thinner. I'm still learning about it and not unlike skateboarding - learning a new trick opens more doors to learning more tricks - more tools to keep in my toolbox. I still love looking through my toolbox and thinking about what to use on a drawing and maybe (hopefully?) know why to use that tool. But often it's just me taking a tool from the toolbox and using it because it seems fun and seeing what happens and inevitably learning something cool from it. Click for more like these.