More from my recent drawing time. These are all from one page that overalltogether don’t do it for me. So I’m just grabbing the creatures that do.
With the late winter warm-up, the stink bug armies are starting to show themselves again in Chester County, PA and other areas. My son came in yelling at me to start caulking every nook and cranny of the house this evening. I asked him, “Why can’t we all just get a long?”
I had been toying with this idea in my head yesterday and figured while I was waiting for a server to restart I’d throw this together. It’s sort of an homage to my grandmother and her collection of American Gothic Parodies that I keep together on a separate site.
The stink bug model was borrowed from Professor Marlin Rice’s article here.
Drew Finger-painted this on a recent flight home using the Brushes app. Got a stylus for Christmas that the daughter and I have been enjoying. So maybe a little practice (and some free time) and I’ll post some more.
Yesterday I delivered my final poster for the West Chester Story Slam for 2010. The Grand Slam is next week, November 9 at 8PM at Ryan’s Pub. It’s been a fun year working with Jim Breslin on this and having monthly creative assignments and being paid in pints. Here’s the final poster in living color!
A new artist-in-residence will take over in 2011 and I’m hoping to push myself for monthly deliveries of something else yet-to-be-determined creative in 2011.
Sometimes I think the dog thinks if she poses like the cat, the cat will get blamed for the pile on the floor.
One of my favorite parts of this year has been the near-monthly delivery of a tune from Jonathan Visger, the man behind Absofacto. Absofacto is his solo effort in and around when he isn’t working full on with his regular band, Mason Proper.
Visger lets you download each tune he puts out and leaves it up to you as to what you’ll pay (or if you pay anything at all). I don’t know how it’s working out for him but he keeps producing tunes like he’s having a good time. He tells the story behind the production of each song and confesses to how much or how little he works on a them.
What I enjoy about his songs are that they vary in style from month to month and usually include great harmonizing backing vocals by he, himself, and him. I just can’t seem to stop playing them. I often go back and listen on repeat to pick up the nuances of his multi-multi-multi track layering.
This month’s song released today is “Punch Drunk On Black Mold” which had me hooked from the opening insectile buzz and the opening verse:
I am sitting in the back with a jar of fire ants
picking my teeth with a razor blade
I know you’ll be back any day
You can listen to the entire song and download it here. The imagery in it got me drawing this evening and came up with this.
I drew this dog as part of this poster for September’s West Chester Story Slam. Figured I’d, you know, multi-purpose-multi-task.
