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being in ultimate suck up holiday mode, i agreed to work on a drawing of my mom's parents when they were married. the problem with working with a photograph from the 1930's (?)
is that the resolution... isn't... well... hi res? i'm having issues getting a good likeness on blanche there... but francis' face is sculptural and fun to draw. i put another layer onto that lino i've been working on too, and then i played around with the scan of my holiday card print in photoshop. indeed.

it's a wonderful life, jimmy stewart

working on getting my show together! opening scheduled for January 16 (located here), which means I hang the show the week of the 9th? yikes yikes yikes. here's a preview of some of the new stuff that's in the show... i decided to do a mix of new watercolors and prints of older works too! come buy my art.

in the spirit of the holidays, i did sit down and watch "it's a wonderful life" tonight. do ya want the moon, mary?

holilollilollidays

the season is upon us. this is a composite sketch for a linoleum block printed non-denominational holiday greeting card. tomorrow it goes to lino!
and speaking of lino, here's layers 1 & 2 put together from the previous entry! two more layers to go!

i see many people coming after me

I started a new lino this week that I've had on the back burner for quite some time. As you can see, my skills are a little rusty.
This lino is a bit of a new venture for me, all cut out of one block. this will be the lightest background layer, followed by four more layers on top. I'm going to try one printed as is, but in the end, my final image will depend mainly on photoshop magic.
Oh, in other news, Reggie is seven years old today. High five!

14 hours on a train cumulatively = not as harsh as the flight to Australia

So I took the train voyage for a fantastic stay in Brooklyn this weekend. On the train, I drew this lovely fella, which sparked the following:
Carla: looks up after smelling waft of patchouli and body odor, sees hippie heading towards her
Patchouli Boy: "Is that Mississippi John Lee Hooker?"
CB: "Why yes it is"
PB: "He's wonderful. You sure do draw well."
CB: "Why thank you."

Moral of the story: it's always good to have fans, even if they smell funky.

i want to try this shit. today.

Emmanual Guibert

under my thumb.

who went micron shopping? this moi. i stocked up on two more of my favorite hunter green no. 5s, got a purple no. 5, and a sweet purple brush pen that i have yet to use. i tried to combing them in this sweet drawing of the ever creepy miles davis. what a freaky looking, sweet, sweet dude. i've also been entertaining the idea of making an alphabet of drawings as a fun little self promoter. i got a little lost in the middle though, i started with p!