I’ve recently created some graphic works for Flavorpill. I took it as an opportunity to play around with different stlyes and take older projects and sketches and breathe new life into them. The city vs nature theme has crept in there as the image above can attest.
For this illo I wanted to give the feel of a graffiti wall of the sort you might find in Soho, with layers of paint, paste-ups and stickers. Also wanted to make it very cropable.
taken from my sketchbook… story about an old geezer waylayed in california who seeks to bring some good old fashion law and order in a lawless, coconut-sipping, shark-bitten world…
My wife Julie Kirkpatrick is having her first solo show at Black Dragon Society on Chung King Road in Los Angeles. The show opens Saturday April 15th and runs through May 20th.
The Village Voice is having a giveaway for this Gibson Les Paul guitar. Gracing the surface of this guitar is the 3 headed Siren girl who I’ve been illustrating for the Voice for the last 6 years. This drawing was actually from the first year of the Siren Music Festival. Feel free to enter to win the guitar here.
here is an invitation to my thesis exhibition. if anyone is in philadelphia between april 21 and may 1, be sure to spread the word and stop in! it should be an interesting show.
the university of the arts, mfa book arts + printmaking, thesis exhibitions
chapter1: April 21 – May 1 and chapter 2: May 5 – May 14
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, 333 S. Broad Street , Philadelphia, PA 19102
Gallery Hours: m-f: 10 am – 5 pm / w: 10 am – 8 pm / weekend: 12 pm – 5 pm
The MFA Book Arts/Printmaking Program offers advanced study in studio arts, focusing on the book as a vehicle of artistic expression and printmaking in the context of the narrative. Students explore the book as an art form that incorporates two-dimensional as well as three-dimensional structure, time and sequence, text and image.
to see the group invitiation/card, click the image below.
omg… what happened to barb? oh, she’s working on her thesis… which is less than 30 days away. YiKes! anyway, i made this little diagram of my space which i thought was kind of funny. we’ll see how it looks in “reality” on april (- gulp- ) 21st… i’ll post an invite soon.
