TV on the Radio

Here's a sneak peak at just a 4th of what will be on the TV on the Radio baseball card for The Mann show coming up.

Kokanee Beer Cans!

Canadians! Get your Kokanee today and see my art on the cans. It might be more available on the west coast but maybe they have some in Toronto too. Speaking of Toronto, thanks to Grip Limited for being awesome to work with from start to finish. You all are great at what you do and I appreciate getting to work on this with you.

Inspired by the XL Pipeline protests

I went to the protest at the White House yesterday and sketched a lot of the scene there. Here are some of the sketches and a finished illustration relating to one of the protesters.

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Hairy Baltimore

A new project for the Baltimore Book Festival. More info to come......

Warm up Gaddafi sketch from yesterday

Gaddafi's starting to look more and more like Michael Myers from Halloween.

Washington Post Express - Summer Festivals

Thanks to Art Director Adam Griffiths for another fun assignment. The idea was to create a super concert of various acts preforming at 3 major music festivals coming up. I was given a list of all the acts with the headliners highlighted and I could choose the additional acts. Below is a key I made to identifying each person on stage.This one took a little while and i'm not used to drawing this small but it was fun from beginning to end.

Bob Dylan

The Bob Dylan card I illustrated for his Philly Show. They passed out 8000 at his concert. I'll post more cards soon.

Dolly for Washington Post Express

I was recently contacted by art director Adam Griffiths to illustrate a full page portrait of Dolly Parton for the Washington Post Express. This is the first illustration I've done specifically for them and the experience was great. I've been fortunate lately with some really fun jobs and this one was no exception. Adam gave me a lot of freedom to go nuts with the hair. I'm also posting some alternate versions along with the 2 original sketches.

Cover for this week's Dallas Observer

I was really excited when Art Directer Alexander Flores from Dallas Observer asked me to illustrate this cover. A lot of my favorite artists including some friends have done work for the Observer and they all had great things to say about their experiences. This was no different. Alexander was really clear in his communication and encouraging throughout the process. The story is about Joey Dauben, a small town small press guy that has big ambitions....maybe just not realistic ones : ) Alexander wanted to go with a Citizen Kane theme taking inspiration from the photo of Orson Wells standing on an endless pile of newspaper stacks. He also thought it would add some humor to make Joey a bit younger looking wearing a suit a few sizes too big. After asking my wife to pose in one of my suits standing on a few old newspapers we had, this is what I came up with. Here is the article

New Work

Below is an illustration for this month's Cincinnati Magazine about an electro rock band call Kry Kids.



Below is my entry in to Jillian Tamaki's Summer Myth contest. This is Zeus releasing Aquila to the sky. Aquila is a constellation who's stars shine the brightest in the Summer months.




This was a quick spot for Time Out New York about an expo of eclectic classes ranging from dumpster diving to Snails. The top illustration is from the sketch they selected and the bottom two I decided to ink and color because I liked them : )