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The most excellent and prolific Jason JFish Fischer let one of my longneck fellows do a cameo in his great comic Une Petit Romance (check it out!). I am super flattered, and glad that one of them are (presumably) well-behaved enough to let out into a new universe. Lock up your sausages.
PSST! Speaking of sausages, I would like to recommend his Junqueland to the grownups. It's... awesome.
I am very, very proud to announce that FLOTSAM is ready! It's a book I've made of sketchbook drawings from over the past year.
It's hardbound with dust jacket, 40 pages full color, and crammed with sketches, doodles, and brain-wispies that no one has ever seen. I culled from my Moleskine sketchbooks of 2010 and 2011, and if you look hard, you can see the original idea-buds of paintings that I've made in the past year.
Keeping a sketchbook is so vital to me as an artist and human being-- it's a dumping ground for ideas, a place to work out kinks and explore brain-jungles, and one hell of a way to pass train rides. I have had to say goodbye to so many paintings over the years as they've gone to good homes, so my volumes of sketchbooks are really, really special to me, collections of my raw ideas and artifacts of the art I've made. All my friends hang out in there. I want to share, and that's why I made this book.
Flotsam is available for purchase right here, and I can attest that the book is gorgeous, and comes packaged safely and speedily.
Some of the sketchbook pages featured therein follow; you can preview more of the book right here.
PLUS PRINT GIVEAWAY!
To celebrate the birth of Flotsam, I'm going to give away one of my Society6 prints! All you have to do is RT or mention #flotsambook on twitter to win! I'll pick a winner at random on Saturday morning, 2pm EST.
Here is the Kuiper Belt Series!
Tiny worlds with tiny denizens in tiny, tiny paintings: they're all gouache on paper, 2.5 inches square. Who said space was lonely?
They're all available in my shop!
Here are a few more additions to the 1/50 project... They're all 3 x 4.5 inches on various papers.
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I have the privilege of being in three shows coming up in the next few days!
First off, is the ever popular Crazy 4 Cult on July 8th in LA: it's already in its 5th year, if you'll believe it (congrats, guys!) They're also doing a book signing that weekend for Cult Movie Art. My piece is In the Garden of Audrey.
Next up is a show in Norfolk on July 16th curated by the very, very special Jason Levesque (aka Stuntkid)--myself, Nomi Chi, Jessica McCourt, Glenn Arthur, Elizabeth Levesque and Cate Rangel are all in it, and it's going to be smashing. I can't believe I moved away from Virginia before getting to see this show. I have a few pieces in it, including Jumping Jack, of which there will be a limited-edition print-- contact the gallery for more info on that.
Also on the 16th of July is The New Surrealism at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco. Reliquary will be shown there among some great work, including that of Vahge, a favorite of mine.
So, that's it for July-- I'm going to be spending the rest of the month working on a piece for a show that Thinkspace is bringing to the University of Arizona Museum in early September. Follow me on Twitter to see updates-- it's a huge piece and I post wips often to keep myself sane.
