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FLOTSAM: Sketchbooks Vol. 1.
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.
October 01, 2010
thumbnails
Here are two color-checking thumbnails, one for a previous piece, one for an upcoming one.
I'm going to be posting more sketches at my flickr.
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September 22, 2010
sketches lately.
While I'm working on my massive (for me, anyway-- 16" x 18"!) piece for Thinkspace's 5th Anniversary Show (hooray, guys!), I figured I would share a few recent pages from my sketchbook... I've been working in a Moleskine watercolor book in the past few months, which has let me bring some gouache into sketch-mode... it's nice to work with it in a less structured, messy, low-pressure way. It's just such a fun, pretty paint.
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The fellow at the top ended up evolving into the main character of the current piece. Or rather, perhaps, the first of many of his kind. Eh, well, you'll see soon enough. ;)
September 03, 2010
swampside evening.
Here's a quick teeny-tiny (2.5 x 3") I did in my sketchbook for Illustration Friday, "dessert." Click for details.
March 11, 2010
like winegums
....addictive, that is.
Via Amy Earles--
Harmony, one among a million online drawing tools, but this one is fantastic. Just take a spin, I dare you.
December 01, 2009
thumbs.
Here are a few recent thumbnail color sketches. Some of these paintings you might recognize; some are for my upcoming show at Thinkspace.
There's something about the tiny size and the color blocking that make me happy... I'm glad to have at least these little pieces once the larger painting is gone....
September 10, 2009
tiny sketch peek.
I'll be working on larger pieces for a while, I think, so as a continuing sign of life I offer a few pages of recent sketchbooks for your enjoyment. Nothing of particular interest, just brain noodlings. (and pigs! I don't know why I've been drawing pigs.)
