Old Man and the Sea-HAT

Whoa dudes. This is the first time I have really sewn or stitched since I was 14. And I kind of loved and hated it. So this is by no means perfect, but here it is. My hat for the group show, RAD HATTER, at Tender Loving Empire, located in Portland.

Such a huge update

Oh man! The semester is finally over. I took my very last literature class EVER (I think?) and I think wrote my last paper for school ever. YES! I have one semester left and I am done for now. One semester left before I can travel more, apply for more artist in residence programs, have art show, play more music, move out of my parents' house and move away and try new areas. Sigh. I am so happy about this.

I have been sketching a lot of people but I was too distracted to sketch much of anything else this semester. I am pretty excited for more exploration of what I used to draw. The strong-man sketches are for a new freelance job and I am really having a fun time with those. Should be great to see how they turn out.

I am pretty excited for my grades this semester. I am really hoping for all A's. I also got an art scholarship for next year, it is just too bad I will only get to use half of it.

After a few drinks at a DLO event, local artist, Grant Olsen and I began to sketch together a bit.



















Here are collages I made for my digital tools class. I am going to try and be modest here... but I thought my collages were the best. I get really sick of seeing art students turn every art project into some commentary-on-some-social-issue-that-every-art-student-has-made-art-about-ever. BLAHG. No, I don't give a crap about your dramatic and unconvincing collage about how America is self serving. We already know this, move on.
These are about space and instead of viewing the universe as outerly expansive, to think of it the other way--space, time, and the universe in confined spaces. Infinity is not just larger than life, but also smaller than life as well.





And then this is where I left my Grizzly Bear illustration. I would really like to see more music magazines rely on illustrations of bands instead of photos. Maybe that is too expensive for them though.

another version

of the Grizzly Bear drawing I have been working on.

poster

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finished up 3 versions of this poster (and actually, I need to make one adjustment to the final) but here it is. A sloth, climbing onto an amp and being soaked by rain. Jungle rock was what I was going for.

Grizzly Bear

working on an illustration of Grizzly Bear. I had a bunch of ideas for this, but ultimately made the jump to this one to see if I could make it interesting. The combined heads are a symbol of how the band works. They all give input to the music. Each person writes songs and gives ideas on mixing the music.

This has a long way to go. I keep changing my mind on colors and how saturated the colors are. There will be more updates in the next few weeks.

Yay! post #100!

I will be screen printing this in a few days with some help (thanks Zach and Chad). It will be for sale at the show and may sell them online when the show is over if I have some left.

12.5" X 19", 2 color screen print on blu-raspberry pop tone French Paper. $15.

very quick thumbnails

Will Oldham

here's an illustration I am working on for illustration class. I haven't decided on coloring yet, but I really like how the texture in the line work looks.

SKETCH-A-PALOOZA

Seriously, I have a lot of sketching to dump into this post. Woot!

sketches