Maurice Sendak

I'm not one to speak out loud when I'm alone, but with the news of Maurice Sendak's death today, I did. I said "no" and tears welled up in my eyes.

I started a new project yesterday. new method. brush ink, cut out the good bits, collage. I kept ending up with little monsters. I thought of Maurice Sendak and smiled and forged ahead.

I dedicate yesterday's monsters and today's tiny airplanes to him.

The Saddest Stache in the World

 A tribute to the memory of Moustache May. A wonderful community brought together from around the world in flagrant display of upperlip barbarism. Many thanks for the years of work put in by Michael Eades in both Whiskerino and Moustache May.

This tribute to the ubiquitous video by facial hair grower extraordinaire Ryan Hale from years ago:



you can still follow Whiskerino on twitter  and on tumblr for the odd post


Also, I've got more wiggly drawings on my new tumblr. I call them Drawings in the 4th Dimension. New one posted every tuesday: http://zeathefourth.tumblr.com

Secret Project Revealed!

Amanda Palmer is releasing a new album! She commissioned over 30 artists to make artwork inspired by certain songs or to do portraits of herself. There will be a six city international gallery tour of the original pieces over the summer as well as a book published with the artwork in it.

I am one of those artists.

here's more info about the project on her kickstarter

homegirl funded her project in 6 hours. on her birthday. brava.

Berlin - June 12th

London - June 18th

NYC - June 28th

San Francisco - July 12th

LA - July 19th

Boston - August 1st

here's the company:
Amanda Palmer, Barnaby Whitfield, Blake Brasher, Cassandra Long, Conrad Keely (...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead), Cynthia von Buhler, David Mack, Desi, DJ Spooky (Paul Miller), Empire SNAFU Restoration Project, Hans Rickheit, Heide Hatry, Judith Clute, Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses), Kyle Cassidy, Lee Barron, Meghan Howland, Michael Pope, Michael Zulli, Molly Crabapple, Neil Gaiman, Nicole Duennebier, Rick Berry, Robyn Hitchcock, Sarah Beetson, Shepard Fairey, Steven Bogart, Sylvia K, Tao Lin, Tony Albert, Vladimir Zimikov, Walter Sickert, and Zea Barker.

here's a couple more peeks at the detail parts

 

hooray.

Minicomic... more... slow... progress

The work is somewhat slow-going on the new minicomic I was mentioning written by Dave Grilli called Clarice...
20 hrs on the first two, as yet, still unfinished, pages before any of the scanning and digital fussing...*dabs glistening brow*

Secret Project...

There's this thing I'm working on that I can't tell you about. Because it is secret.

It is exciting, though and just look at all those eraser crumbs. Quite something.

Can't wait to share. But, for now, shhhhh...

New Blockprints

I've been making blockprints for City Feed and Supply for ages. I've just completed what remained of the Chinese Zodiac. More of the previous designs can be seen here. If you're ever in Boston, make the trip to see them in action and enjoy some of the best sandwiches in town.

This year's blockprint graces the poster announcing the dragon costume contest during Jamaica Plain's annual Wake Up the Earth festival. If you're in Boston, go check out the fun: 

New - Drawings in the 4th Dimension

I'm releasing  series of 4D drawings every tuesday and thursday for the next several weeks over on tumblr: http://zeathefourth.tumblr.com. Come see the inaugural post and pass it along.

cud

Sketchbook: Janree Febree

I made a tiny chair

balsa, glue, copper leaf

Sketchbook: New Year

catch a tiger by the toe.

sketchbook entries, the wee days of january

Sketchbook: New Year Resolution

I am your New Year's Resolution.

I am better than you.

January 2nd

December 30th

Sketchbook: Waning of the Year

Getting through the hyper smog of the holidays with an ailing rapidograph. (third piece down gives evidence of the death sputters) A new one sits snuggled in its case, at the ready. I've got a concept design illustration to do for work, a small group of blockprints to cut for a business and a minicomic about a petulant, chainsmoking french girl sitting on my desk to finish in the first moments of the new year. Sets a nice tone...

Sketchbook: Her and Him

Sketchbook entries. Early December. Prismacolor markers and Rapidograph pen...

Sketchbook: Nomember Decmember

Sketchbook selection from late November and early December...

note the evidence of my fifth (sixth?) rapidograph getting ready to give up the ghost.

A New Minicomic Has Begun!

Dave Grilli has written a new story we are converting into a minicomic! Hopefully this one will move at a better clip than Neonlove did. Using an illustrator who loves comics but isn't a big fan of squares and insists on reinventing the wheel and testing the mashy-ness of linear time doesn't do much for efficiency, but might come up with some novel ideas for 2D visual storytelling (we should be so lucky)

Here are some of the beginnings:

Mapping out the flow of the pages

Sketching page layout, with a little help...

Starting with midtones, {note: the neo-futurists pencil for extra inspirado}

Sketchbook: November

November has tied me to an old dead tree
get word to April to rescue me

-Tom Waits

sketchbook entries from November 

And Plus Like

In a continued obsession with an idea for a fictional boutique for airheads, (a recurring motif in my drawings) and out of a continued angst over the general hideousness of the vast, boring expanse of my bag, last night, I painted a bag on my bag. That is all.

Sketchbook: October

Sketchbook entries from the month of October.

All Fall Down Blog Piece

on Bony Lil's Creation + Distraction

John Towsen of All Fall Down: The Craft + Art of Physical Comedy fame did a write up of the live screening we did of silent short film duet Bony Lil's Creation + Distraction in September as part of the Amuse Bouche Clown Festival in Brooklyn NY.

We put together a new live musical score with Clifton Hyde and Stefan Zeniuk, and Director Michael Pope and Animator and star Zea Barker provided the sound effects with a tiny table with too too many things on it.

All live action, and much of the animation, was shot on super 8 film and edited digitally. The animation is a self-taught method that Zea came up with through trial and error and trying endlessly to get this endless business of hand-crafted animation to go a bit quicker.

lookee here:

Bony Lil's Distraction from Zea on Vimeo.


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Bony Lil's Creation from Zea on Vimeo.

Muse to Barnaby Whitfield

The relentlessly talented Barnaby Whitfield has made an enormous piece featuring the googly face-parts of YoursTruly.

This Is A Foreground
2011
Pastel On Paper
60 by 40 inches

This is not the first piece Barnaby has used my mug for... maybe the ...sixth?? and certainly the largest. Pour through the top three rows of his incredible gallery of work and you'll find five others.



This one is on its way to Copenhagen for unveiling and possibly getting boughten.

PLUS, he's got prints of this one:

get yer grubby paws on it here.