Just another day at the Community College. My hands smell like Color-aid. I love that stuff.
Northern Loves You!
Written on November 21, 2011
Earlier this month, designer extraordinaire Michael Ryan Dellinger and I spent a considerable amount of time designing, setting type and printing the Northern Loves You CD jacket for the supporters that helped fund our successful Kickstarter Campaign. I must say, we make a good team. Check it out!
Al Capone Pumpkin
Written on November 2, 2011
For Halloween, my drawing class brought in their carved jack-o-lanterns. We made a still life and lit the pumpkins with tea lights. The drawings were supposed to capture the sense of being illuminated from within using reductive and additive techniques. We told ghost stories and listened to weird radio stations. This was the best drawing of Al Capone Pumpkinhead.
From a slightly different angle with the lights on:
on losing that loving feeling
Written on October 24, 2011
Man, this fall, I just can’t get into it, whatever it is.
At the end of this week, the quarter will be half over. I finally have time to come up to the surface for a breather this evening, after suffering an immobilizing headache this afternoon that forced me to cancel my drawing class.
I have work up at the community college, work up in PDX, and various applications out. I have a bunch of printing for Northern to finish up, a top-secret project in the design phase, and another show offer for February 2013. In less than two weeks, I’m flying to Vegas for Theresa’s wedding. Christmas will be spent in Kentucky this year, as my parents relocated from Buffalo, NY to Louisville, KY. My mother has never lived further than 8 miles from her mother.
Currently, my “Debt-Free by 33″ plan is still in effect, though I expect that the campaign name is going to have to be altered to “Debt-Free by 33 and a Half.” I want to kill my student loan so I don’t have to worry about income… for a while, at least. I’m working on my Washington State Bucket List as well. GoldMyer Hot Springs was triumphed over this past weekend. Maybe I’ll go to Leavenworth sometime this winter.
I need to make it out to Milwaukee and NYC again in the new year. Wrestlemania is still an option for Spring Break, if I can save enough money without impacting my student loan repayment plan.
I just finished watching all 7 seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I wish Captain Piccard was real and that he was protesting at Occupy Wallstreet. I need a new show to obsessively watch. And yes, I already finished Twin Peaks this past spring.
This site is undergoing a professional redesign in the next two months. My super talented friend who happens to be a professional web-designer is moving the site to an all WordPress platform. Should be pretty exciting. Much more profesh and standardized. It’ll be infinitely easier to upload new work. Printopia is going to be awesome, too. Expect a lot of art book reviews in the future!
Alright. that’s all I got. Random update OVER.
Northern Kickstarter Campaign
Written on October 16, 2011
As some of you may know, Northern completed a successful Kickstarter campaign over the end days of summer and early days of fall. We raised over $8,000 for The Olympia All Ages Project in order to relocate Northern into a new space. We’re working with that new space now (it’s a secret!) and we will hopefully be moving in by the end of the year. Myself and a handful of other artists have been hard at work designing posters and textile designs. Here’s what we came up with!
My design, 11″ x 15″ screen-print
Michael Ryan Dellinger’s design, 11″ x 15″ screen-print
And Kelsey’s letterpress + relief print
And The T shirt/ tote designs, by Sarah Utter and Kelsey, respectively (both will have the Northern logo somewhere!) :
Pretty rad, huh? The packaging for the CD is in the works as well. Gonna be real purty. Stay tuned and thank you for all your support.