Howdy folks!

Here’s some work I’ve been developing over the past couple of months. It’s been rather liberating diving into these works on canvas. There larger scale, relative to my  illustration work, made a refreshing demand on my body to be more physical. The following pieces were done for my “Madness All the Time” series. These works are the product of nonsense integrating with reason and consequently defecating a sloppy narrative on canvas material. After all narrative is essentially just that, a pathetic exhaust of one’s ideas. The history of man is subjective; resting in the realms of opinion based on fleeting events. Therefore, to assert that I can tell a story about history accurately I must begin by submitting to the possibility that purposefully lying is just as informed and indeed valid as had I been trying to tell it truthfully.

Being aware of my inability to tell a story about historical truths truthfully has led me to the layering of narratives in these pieces. At times it is an erasure of one event in favor of another. Even though both events may have occurred I give myself the authority to stamp out whatever I like. At other points it’s to acknowledge my insecurity with the truth and submit to the insubordination of a subjective history. The result of which is symbolical imagery scattered about with tacit implications but no discernable direction, laden with doubt in some moments and shallow confidence in others.

Bon Appetit!

This was the first piece I did for the series, it’s called “I like Bunnies II”

“War All the Time”

The Fecundity of Criticism I and II

Hey y’all. Just a quick update for you. I partnered again with College of Charleston Magazine AD Alfred Hall for this piece. The article was about the increasing amount of people in the United States that believe in the Devil. Apparently, the number of believers has jumped quite a bit in the past decade. Thanks, Alfred, the  two works I’ve done under your eyes have been some of my favorite pieces.

Below shows the process from thumbnail sketches to final artwork.

There were a couple more concepts but Alfred went with number 1 ultimately, below is the final pencil.

I don’t generally do a color comp unless the client feels like they need one, but for this job I wanted to go with a color triad and wanted to make sure the bold primary colors would work. This is just a photoshop quick sketch of color- broad strokes.

and there you have it…

Well, it’s been far too long since my last post, my apologies. My blogging absence has not been due to lack of work but rather a lack of leisure time. Hopefully I can devote sometime in the next few weeks to properly document all my torrid adventures and the images that said adventures subsequently spawned. In lieu of affording myself the time to blog about them thoroughly now, I shall say this in regards to the work that was produced in the past few months; these past few months have certainly been conceptually formative, challenging and entirely economically irrelevant, I’ve leapt into some personal work and the result has been in some instances terrific, and in other instances embarrassing failures… nevertheless, it’s been fun.

First off, I’ll start with this little collection of drawings depicting the fictional battle between modern England and the Britons. In reality it was the Britons verses the Anglo-Saxons, the result of which is what we know as the United Kingdom. More or less these works are a humorous response to the tacitly placed guilt on American society from the movie Avatar, and indeed running rampant throughout contemporary media. Sure, sure the Native Americans were great and all, I thought, but any semblance of their true history has been replaced by this highly romanticized notion of their purity. Pssh- were they not just as warring and territorial as we? Just as I don’t have any strong emotional concern for my Briton ancestors, I am entirely unconcerned with the plight of the Native Americans. Here I show this fictional narrative of my ancestors being conquered… good for England, I can assure you it’s better off. MMMM, mmm, MMMM…. I can’t wait to build a house on 40 acres of prime Pandora real estate and start living off the vast revenues from the Unobtainium I drill. Hell, the locals aren’t doing anything with it.