Lazy Thanksgiving

This past weekend I did an illustration for Willamette Week for an article about places people can go on Thanksgiving if they don’t feel like cooking. The AD let me pretty much do whatever I wanted, as long as I got across the idea that the Thanksgiving meal was being eaten somewhere besides home. I thought it would be funny to transpose Norman Rockwell’s classic painting “Freedom From Want”, into a late night diner, complete with a pimply busser and sassy old waitress named “Dot”.
Thanks Ben!

Debbie Downer!

So for the past 2 months I have been working on the Barneys Christmas windows. The theme this year was “Saturday Night Live” celebrating it’s 35th anniversary. I was given the supremely fun task of painting 12 giant SNL character “ornaments”. I don’t have all the photos yet to post but I was online today and saw a photo from last night’s unveiling party that many of the current stars attended. I was very excited when I saw one of my favorite SNLers, Rachel Dratch, posing in front of the Debbie Downer ornament I painted!

Debbie Downer was built by my good friend Colleen!

First Thoughts for Real

I received an issue of the latest Buddhadharma in the mail this weekend. Here are my some quick scans of my First Thoughts illustrations in action!
Thanks Seth.

Douglas Hofstader

An illustration I did last week for Portland Monthly, for an article on Douglas Hofstader. Hofstader is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author for a book on self-referencing and the nature of consciousness titled Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. He believes that humans become so entwined emotionally with one another that parts of us are copied into our loved one’s brains after we have perished.

Thanks Hector!

Germany

Last week, the former art director of The Walrus contacted me about participating in a group show in Germany called 100 € SHOW . The concept of the show is for each artist to submit 5 pieces of artwork that they have laying around, such as sketches and quick pieces, rather than making new work. These are the 5 works that I chose. Some are recent and some are from a while ago.
Thanks Antonio!

Martha Stewart

We found out the other day that recently Martha Stewart used the freaky animal window that Colleen and I worked on a while ago as “inspiration” on her show. Colleen and I created the facial features for the creatures and worked with the in-store display team to create the little monsters.
Here’s a picture of the window-

And a link to the Martha Stewart Video

3 First Thoughts

Three new pieces for Buddhadharma Magazine, for the “First Thoughts” section, which consists of brief articles dealing with meditation, Buddhism and the like.

Legs in Action

A couple pictures of my leg drawings in the hosiery display at the Barneys on Madison Ave.

The Stranger

The Art Director over at The Stranger contacted me the other day and asked if they could use this piece I did a while ago for a group show for their back to school issue cover. So excited! Thanks Aaron!
Check it out here – http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/CoverArt?oid=2240244rdpress.com/

Racist Bike

A piece I did this past weekend for Portland Mercury. It was for an article about a black cyclist who was pulled over by a white cop, for unknown reasons. The article suggests it was most likely fueled by racist motivations.
After a hiatus due to traveling, moving and working at Barneys, it felt good to finally be able to sit down and do some illustration work in my new studio!

Thanks Justin!