I was off in Denver about a week ago speaking to a class of students and working with them on some art projects. Started a new sketchbook, the 7th moleskine. Also had a chance to get up a bit and run around. 

Michigan is where I'll be for one more week and then blasting off to OFFF in Barcelona. From there, plans are to stay in Europe for a while. Painting a few walls hopefully, and running around. I spent the Spring making drawings and paintings about black holes. They are almost all done. I hope to make a little zine out of them. Still working on book progress too. Thanks for all all the continued support, there is so much coming up to share. More soon.

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35mm scans from March and April. Mostly Michigan, some West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana too.

 

 

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These are some recent graphics for StepArt in France. They really wanted some animals, so we decided to retake the age-old monkey parable with a little more focus on resistance. Pencil on paper!

Here's some oringinal sketches for what I wanted to do. Things ended up taking a different route. 

For the past year, I've been working on a book about a two-month trip across a large piece of the North US. The video above was some little bits of footage I took with my cruddy camera while travelling. The project has been really large, with about twice as many photos and drawings as that Alaska project. The narrative is about 60 pages on its own, and really has just been held up by finding the right publisher to print it. Maybe I'll just leave it buried, and someone can discover and print it after I die. 

It's a scary thing to be working on something that exposes a lot of intimate moments. I'd love to hear if there's interest in reading this; should I keep going with it? 

In the meantime, these are some more photo previews and illustration excerpts from that project. 

 

My friend Rusty is a leatherworker who makes amazing bags, coats, and backpacks all by hand. We work next door to each other all day in south Grand Rapids. He made me a bag a year ago to use and treat as a crash test dummy. I've taken it through 30 states, beat it up, crammed it in holes, and it's held together. Here's some record keeping.

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I drew this tour poster for Bruno Mars, commissioned by Atlantic Records. The art director was Greg Burke, who I have the utmost respect for. I'd never heard of Bruno Mars before this, but I guess a lot of people like him.

I've been travelling for the past month or so. I mostly drew in my sketchbook and took some silly photos. Stay tuned for that jazz in the upcoming week or so. Cheers to escaping and real friends. Thanks a bunch also to everyone who's been ordering prints this month. It excites me to have my artwork whizzing away to your homes, walls, and hearts. 

"Get Up, Get at Them" pencil and digital color, commission for Robert Minton

Here's some detail of the illustration I did in January. I was kind of tired of pens and thought it might be fun to pick the pencil back up. More news and updates soon. 

 

I spent January in Michigan, mostly working on a couple of illustration projects. I have a studio for the first time ever, finally. There are lots of projects going on with the Beehive Collective. The call of the Catskills placed me in the heart of the beast at an anti-resource-extraction summit of leaders coming together to combat extreme extractive energy projects. It's refreshing to be done with commercial work for a while and back in the territory where my heart and head is. I'm excited to share the projects I completed while at home. More sketchbook pages are being pumped out daily while on the road. Here's a few film photos from Michigantown in January. Thanks for the continued interest and support, I'm tired and spent. It's awesome.

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There's an underground spot in GR called the Bunker. I painted this down there yesterday.