"For No Good Reason" Trailer
I REALLY can't wait to see this Ralph Steadman documentary. He's fascinating and so is this trailer.
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"A Circle in the Fire" Final Illustrations
Remember the sketches I worked on a while back for the Flannery O'Connor short story "A Circle in the Fire"? I've been meaning to post the final illustration for a while, but this semester has been...
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Caroline Hwang, Nathan Fox, and Adam Wallacavage
Through, MICA, the school where I teach, I've been able to attend several amazing illustrator and artist lectures in the last few weeks.First, Caroline Hwang presented on her embroidered and...
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Pittsburgh is Butterflies
While attending a wedding reception in Pittsburgh at the Carnegie Museum of Art, I stumbled upon this beautiful collection of butterflies.The photo above should give you a better sense of the scale -...
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Sophie Lécuyer
A couple of beautiful litho printed books by French artist, Sophie Lécuyer. I'm very enamored with them and will have to investigate if there's a way to purchase any of her work.You can see more of her...
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Little Nemo Google Doodle
I've been battling a cold for the last few days and scrambling to finish assignments, but noticing the google doodle of the day really lifted my spirits. It's a beautiful animation celebrating the...
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The Serial Portrait at the National Gallery of Art
I spent Saturday in Washington D.C. visiting friends and stopped by the National Gallery of Art to see the exhibit, The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years. It's a...
View ArticleVideo Friday Monday: Minnie the Moocher
Halloween's coming up in just a couple of days, so this amazing, surreal Fleisher bros. Betty Boop animation featuring the creepiest rendition of Cab Calloway singing Minnie the Moocher is here to help...
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I Was Kissed by a Teen-aged Monster Last Night...
...or so reads the title of this fantastic Al Parker Halloween illustration for The American Weekly from 1959. I love Al Parker's work so much.
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Brandywine River Museum
Jesse and I took some students to the Brandywine River Museum the weekend before last (ugh...it's been forever since I've updated this blog). The Brandywine is a beautiful museum set in the countryside...
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The Dust Bowl
I watched the second half of Ken Burns' two-part documentaryThe Dust Bowl on PBS last night while working on illustrations. I'm a sucker for Ken Burns' docs anyway and have always been fascinated with...
View Article56 Up Trailer!
Jesse and I found out about the "Up Series" documentaries several years ago and plowed through all seven of the earlier installments in one week. I just saw that the latest installment, 56 Up will...
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Happy Holidays!
I haven't blogged in so long, but will be back soon with some big news!
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Illustration Updates and some Big News!
I didn't mean to make the last post such a tease, but the last few weeks have really gotten the best of me. My deadline for the Flannery O'Connor short story illustration project came and went this...
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Oh Data....
Jesse just finished this small sculpture of Data from The Goonies for the upcoming show "Gizmos and Gadgets" at Bottleneck Gallery in New York. The opening reception is this Friday, Jan. 18th from...
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Bad Sea by Jee-Shaun Wang
One of my recent MICA illustration students, Jee-Shaun Wang, is selling this great screen print, titled Bad Sea, to help fund one month at the Lijang Studio Program in China. The print is big (22" x...
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Holiday in Instagram
Since I didn't blog during most of December and the beginning of January, here are a bunch of my instagram photos from that time to show you how we rang in the holidays. We decorated our apartment for...
View ArticleA Couple of Movies I Can't Wait to See....
Michel Gondry's newest daydream, Mood Indigo. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind constantly competes with The Apartment and In The Mood for Love as my all-time favorite movie (it's basically a 3-way...
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Congrats Ravens!
And congrats Joe Flacco! The city is exploding in excitement outside our windows tonight. The last time Baltimore won the Super Bowl in 2001, Jesse and I lived here, too, but as college freshmen. We...
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Anne Ten Donkelaar
Thanks to Design*Sponge, I just got turned on to the delicate constructions of Anne Ten Donkelaar. These are a few of my favorites. You can view more at her site, here.In other news, I'm as big as a...
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