Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
August 24, 2005 3:35 AM

I was trolling around the web and stumbled upon Nate Williams' fabulous IllustrationMundo (Where illustration gets all the love!). Great site, and it got me inspired to freshed up my own site. I've been spending a lot of time at invisibleman, and I've been neglecting my poor old jonkeegan.com.

So I have posted a new spread of pages from my latest mini-moleskine sketchbook, added some new work onto the site and placed my most recent work in my featured illo section.

The days are numbered for my stogy old site, and I'm looking forward to ripping it's guts out and blogifying it's innards. Big fall project, ready to be tackled upon my return from our imminent vacation in Old Europe.

Posted by: pa (190 posts)
August 21, 2005 9:12 PM

While in Maine this past week, my brothers Stephen, Jamie and I each did mutliple drawings/paintings of a piece of driftwood. The drawing above came from the sketchbook. The images below are from some of the photography/video sessions we managed between swimming, hiking, canoeing and exploring the woods w nephew Finn.

Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
August 19, 2005 6:08 PM

I'll keep the step-by-step ball rolling with a few frames of an illo that I just finished. This is part of a series I'm doing for a magazine. I will post the finals and the details shortly.

I have been trying to keep my process as much like traditional paint-on-paper as possible. Keeping the "underpainting" is an important step I did not want to abandon. I'm still tweaking the formula a bit, as I do more of these with the pencil drawing on top of color in photoshop. The thing I'm happiest about, is that my drawing gets preserved, and doesn't get buried under a layer of opaque gouache.

Posted by: kerry (81 posts)
3:56 PM

On August 10th I posted some of my sketches of The Prison Ships Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park. This is an animation of the location, and thus sketch selected, along with the painting in progress.

The sketch is about 3x5" and the painting is 9x12" (oil on board.)

Posted by: kerry (81 posts)
August 16, 2005 6:43 PM

This weekend I traveled Cape Cod to run the Falmouth Road Race. Prior to running I managed steal some time and sketch the Mullaney's cabin on the shore of Pimlico Pond in Sandwich, MA.

The race was hot, humid but enjoyable. If it wasn't always in August I would recommend it. Race results and info can be found here: SBLI Falmouth Road Race

Posted by: jamie (116 posts)
August 14, 2005 2:22 AM

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2:04 AM

Farmers use these to prevent creekbank erosion. In a short time, a high volume of cattle can sog up a landscape, creating giant unwanted puddles and even choke waterways as they drink and cool off. They are made of coconut hair and jute.

Posted by: pa (190 posts)
August 13, 2005 4:04 PM

I've justed turned in this illo which will be promoting the Village Voice's 'Best of New York' issue which comes out in October. My main concern at the moment is whether the lower portion of the art is printing too dark - darker and more saturated than on my monitor anyway... I may have to tweak that. The architecture is mostly a blend of Chinatown, Soho, Lower east side, the East and West Village. Here's a few details:

Posted by: jamie (116 posts)
August 11, 2005 1:52 PM

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Posted by: kerry (81 posts)
August 10, 200512:58 PM

Recently I took my mini-Moleskin sketchbook on a sketching "expedition" to Fort Greene Park. My goal was to hunt out potential locations or views for future paintings. Not too much time was spent on any of these, just enough to get layout ideas and general composition possibilities. No color notes were taken.

Outta the bunch I have already selected one and begun a painting. I will post progress on that soon.

Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
August 8, 200512:30 AM

Early November: North Greenland - Rockwell Kent 1933

Just got back from a breathtakingly beautiful vacation up in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. One of the suprise highlights was a quick stop in at the beautiful Portland Museum of Art, where I was delighted to find a huge Rockwell Kent exhibit. I don't know if it was all the salt in the water that I swam in or too many lobster rolls, but this show just floored me.

The first images that come to my mind when I hear Kent's name are the amazing black and white ink drawings of Moby Dick. I had always kept him firmly in the camp of the great American pen and ink illustrators of the early 20th century. This show completely enlarged my view of his work, and of his amazing life. This fellow was a grade-A swashbuckler, travelling to the world's most spectacularly desolate and awe-inspiring places, and surviving any shipwrecks that nature threw his way (at least one that I am aware of).

His glowing landscpaes of Monhegan Maine, Tierra del Fuego, Greenland and Alaska are meant to remove the viewer's self-consciousness, and just revel in the marvel of the scene. He was quite a modernist as well, producing playfully cartoonish shapes, yet preserving their deep cobalt blue glow and blindingly bright snowfields.

I'm looking forward to reading his wild tales of adventure as he sails to Tierra del Fuego in his book Voyaging. If you happen to be up in the area near Portland, ME be sure to check this show out. It runs until October 16th.

Amazon: Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern
Amazon: Voyaging
Link: Portland Museum of Art