Butterfly man...

I love to do fantastical paintings.... did this over the last week, at our tuesday night drawing sessions..... Just having some fun...

VitaMN Underpainting

This is the ink and wash under painting done in reverse of the cover. It is 90% lined with a brush and 100% drawing ink....

VitaMN cover!

Cover for VitaMN weekly mag.... I have been busy lately, not alot of posts going up.... I will post the watercolor of this to give a little idea of the foundation of illustration. I was honestly amazed at how good the printing was.... I didnt think they would be able to pull it off. Extremely stressful, but worth every second..... I might do prints.... did I mention that I have prints for sale of most of my illustrations...?

More Zombies!

It has been a while since I posted, so I gotta get something out there! Some oils in the works, some watercolors, but mostly alot of COD WAW..... nerd. This is a poster for a show in August for one of our favorite bands, it was done by my friend Brandon and I. We sketched back and forth, then started inking on opposite sides, working on each others inking as we went along.... it was a very envigorating experience for sure! Finished the inking in a couple hours! I colored it in photoshop and we will be having Steve from Squad 19 printing it.... sooooo sweet. Not sure how many will be printed but under 50 for sure..... :)

New oil

Rocked this out this week.... started it on sunday or monday night around 2am and finished at 3am thursday night. Super stoked, did this one from life, just hung up a piece of glass and started to go to town!

:)

Zombiemom

Gotta fix a couple things about this guy (mainly tone down the chin), but it is mostly done... not super stoked, background too loose and bright, but sick of working on it, so....

:P

Finished Oils and one in progress.

Finished 2, a couple more to go.... got some work in on the zombie Damian painting, it is unfinished, but the other 2 are. :) So tired.

New Oils.

I am starting a new painting, but realize I need to finish some of the stragglers. I am really stoked on this painting, no model used for the figure, probably should have, but such is life. In oil paint, I started this on tuesday morning, this week. It is pretty big, about 1.5' by 2.5' it seems much bigger.... Feel like I am slowly working towards a system that will work for me. I didnt realize how much paint you need to cover a space like this! And cleaning large brushes.... no bueno.

Oil Paint!

I love oil paint, it takes a while for my body and brain to become acclimated to the turpentine, but I am in full on paint mode. I guess I will see how long I can ride this wave till I find something else to obsess over. They are all in varying degrees of completion, some closer than others, so please do not judge too harshly..... the model in two of these is my son, FYI.

Pregnant!

This is from a drawing I did like 4 months ago, before the Mcad class, just wanted to have something new to show... havent worked on it in forever, the halo is kind of weak and the ribs are not how I wanted them but, what can ya do.... it isnt oil paint so I guess I have to slog on through. I think I will go with simple color scheme, just the flowers and maybe the sky and leave it at that, maybe just the flowers so it can be done..... I didnt think that anyone looked at this page, but in the last week I have had three people mention it, which made me happy.

:)

Apocalypse goat

Not happy at all with this guy, but gotta finish it anyways, since I have spent like a million hours on this fucker. UGH! I am definitely feeling the oil paint way more at this time.... will post some picks of the 3 oil paintings I am working on this weekend hopefully. Seriously, ugh. Realizing that the hair and forehead look weird, but dont want to waste all this time I have put into it.... :(

Tree man finished!

Took a while, with the holidays and all, but I am finally finished with my treeman painting. Not 100% stoked on it, but gotta move on anyways. I have 3 more watercolor/gouache paintings to finish before I get back to the oils..... gotta get grinding away.

Tree MAN!

Just feeling the trees and naked people. Cant help it, gonna paint this this week I think.

Gouache! Gouache! Gouache!

Almost done with these guys, part of a mythology I dont fully understand yet. I am not as good of a writer as I was at one time so I guess I will just tell the story with images.... :( Painted in gouache, but done with watercolor technique....

Painting night!

On Tuesday nights we get together and paint and draw... my buddy Brandon and I painted these in gouache on pieces of cedar I grabbed from my neighbors garbage. I painted the devil and brandon painted the awesome catfish. It is very fun to paint with gouache, part watercolors, part acrylic, part oils..... fun medium and always available.

Lamb of the Apocalypse

This painting is taking about 4 times longer than I imagined, I learned that non Arches watercolor paper is shit..... Part of a possible series. Lamb of the apocalypse, multiple horns, etc.. Unfinished but looking cool anyways. Did I mention that civilization is crumbling away? Got a little further, am distracted by new paintings, so, hope is the dream of unfinished artwork.

Darkness!

Darkness is being released at the Surly Brewery Saturday morning. Omar, the owner of Surly was on Fox 9 news and gave a shout out to me and the Shop.... which was tight. Here is the link to the video...

Zombie!

Working on a painting of a zombie head.... I feel like the zombie apocalypse is right around the corner.... I read World War Z, Day by Day Armageddon and Walking Dead - I am living inside a zombie fantasy and think that a painting is due that reflects that.... unfinished, but I felt like I just had to post it.... see the burned out city below? Should I make it Mpls?

Update. Finished. Pretty stoked.

Wedding hands

Painting I am doing for a friends wedding as a gift, taken from photo of daughters hands. As usual, walnut ink, gray wash, and a little gouache thrown in, though maybe not used as effectively as I would like.

Survival!

I survived the run, it was beautiful.... experienced the most amazing runners high ever. Really. Total euphoria.
Last week I helped at my friend Lindsay's class at MCAD, it was interesting, I finished this painting, start to finish in about 1.5 hours while giving a demo on spit shading and the use of walnut ink. I don't think many of them got anything out of it, but oh well it was fun anyways.

Running!

Last year I ended up in the med tent, this year I am going to destroy this race. Tomorrow morning I am running in the twin cities marathon, should be fun I am feeling it great shape. As long as I dont end up in the medical tent!

Another head!

Another sweet head, this time floating in water.... done obviously on a foot... I was really stoked on the face and for sure.

Honey Bee

Two photos of one of my favorite insects, taken in the morning while they sat on my cherry tree. I especially like that you can see that they are covered in pollen..... :)

Ink painting

First of 2 paintings I am doing to warm up for a class I am doing at MCAD in October on inkwash techniques. A great reason to keep sketchbooks full of random drawings, makes it easier to start a painting when you dont have to come up with a new idea when you sit down.

New tattoo

Here is a new tattoo I did on my friend Kevin McNutt. I am posting it because it was one of the funnest tattoos I have ever done. I like it because I drew it and it has an art nouveau feel and is beautiful and simple.