Uncle Zombie

A family portrait.

Coming in from the storm

New work is forthcoming; gird some loins!

PEM kabuki poster

The Nightlife Is For You

Tom Waits

The back-alley god with the chainsaw throat.



I'd like to work more with caricature; this is a decent likeness all things considered, but I really want to work on straight up portraiture without going too far into abstraction. I'm probably going to try another one in paint, to get the gritty feel of his persona nailed down.

I also really want a skyscraper hat.

[edit]: I made a bunch of improvements on the original, and am much happier with it now. Horray!

Jalopy Dance

So the very fine people at MadAtoms.com have used my drunk-driving skeleton illustration on the relaunch of their new website.

Help me thank 'em by checking out their hilariously colorful jibberings.

Bill O'Reilly will eat your face!

This was a quick caricature experiment from last year that I thought I might include here:



Bulging head-veins are really fun to paint.

Quick color sketch

Full painting in the works, with such sweltering hot weather outside the past few days it's nice to sit in the shade and just paint...

The Wandering Jew

This is a modern interpretation of the biblical character of the Wandering Jew. I'm really interested in the concept of extreme longevity and thousand-year old people walking among us (see also the Count of St. Germain, the Bodhisattvas, Li Ching-Yuen, etc.) and I wanted to show what I would imagine the mythical figure to look like in his current state, doomed to walk the Earth until the Second Coming. I based the overall composition on Gustave Dore's representation.



And I haven't forgotten my painting/drawing a day pledge; I've been busy plugging away and will upload some work by the end of the week.

Nocturnal

A nocturnal from the Maritime collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, drawn for a collections booklet for my internship project. Nocturnals were maritime instruments used to tell time at night, using Polaris and a number of other reference constellations.


(Adobe Photoshop)