July July

These five are mixed media pieces for my illustration final this past semester. Completed sometime mid-May.
Silkscreen, collage, thread, paper, paint and ink on wood. 30"x40"
the theme was to interpret "normal"

edit: you can view some of the in-progress photos on my twitpic account

palace of the dogs

Janelle Monae ♥

Susannah

This is the comic I drew for the 2010 color issue of Static Fish. It is based on the song "Ain't It a Pretty Night" from the opera Susannah by the American composer Carlisle Floyd.

There is a very beautiful performance of this song by Renee Fleming over here on the tubes of you. Someday I would like to see Susannah on stage.

Static Fish in Real Places (reel places?)

check it dudes, Static Fish is having a release party next week and you're invited.
It's happening at Desert Island next Tuesday the 8th at 7pm. (540 metropolitan ave, take the L or G to Lorrimer!!)

If i haven't explained before: Static Fish is this 25-year-old, school-funded, student-run comic Pratt Institute publication that I've been involved in since freshman year. It's been exciting to see how my peers (piers?) have developed and improved over the past three years. For this volume we went bat-shit crazy on the production, it's hard-bound and full color. I gotta give props to Jane Wu for really spear-heading Static Fish and the Comic Club, keeping everything organized and everyone on their toes. and to Jay Ray Stephens for believing our ideas into reality.

Here also are some better photos of the actual book:

June Bend

these pages were drawn at the beginning of May, looking at them now I really want to put tones on it arghhh. They are for a future issue of Static Fish (fall2010 probably).

i have reservations about this being wordless.

MoCCA

6-pager in the Static Fish anthology.

gonna be at MoCCA this weekend table F19!!!!!!! look for the chick in black walking with a gimp

hand over waves

school is slaying me but i'm having a good time
this term is weird, for the first time in years i am working mostly with traditional media in large format (collage, silkscreen, wash). it's quite fulfilling, but also means the images aren't conveniently on my hard drive to share (and I don't own a scanner). must work on taking good photos..

i'm working on a group book project called STATIC FISH, the bare-bones blog is here: http://staticfish.blogspot.com These images are the cover and also spot illustrations of just kind of coked-out looking paranoid fish. The cover is silkscreened with a layer added in photoshop (the light white over the figure.)
anyway, the book should debut at MoCCA, it's like 60 pages of full color dreamyness.

here are also some spot illustrations I did for the Prattler