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Not a big update but last night I uploaded a little drawing into the illustration section of my site.

Lately I’ve been very focused on teaching myself how to work in color which means that most of my drawings take far longer than I’d prefer. I’m happy to make that sacrifice to learn a new skill, but it was really wonderful to have this little dragon come bursting out of me last night.

On another note – I’m still trying to figure out how much news is really necessary to put into this rss feed. Is just one drawing not enough to make it worth it? Or is it nicer for the post to be so short?  Feel free to chime in and let me know via email, comments, or the next time we get together for coffee.

This summer the San Francisco based theater company No Nude Men is putting on a play festival called SF Olympians. It’s a series of 12 plays each based on a different greek god that will be running from July 8th through the 31st.  I’ve always really enjoyed the plays they’ve put on, so I jumped at the chance when asked if I’d be interested in drawing the image accompanying the play about Hermes.

Hermes: The Cost of Doing Business depicts the “fleet-footed” god as a modern day bike messenger while following the tale of three business men and their struggles in corporate San Francisco. It’ll be showing on July 15th and if you especially liked my drawing you can even pick up a poster while you’re there!

This summer the San Francisco based theater company No Nude Men is putting on a play festival called SF Olympians. It’s a series of 12 plays each based on a different greek god that will be running from July 8th through the 31st.  I’ve always really enjoyed the plays they’ve put on, so I jumped at the chance when asked if I’d be interested in drawing the image accompanying the play about Hermes.

Hermes: The Cost of Doing Business depicts the “fleet-footed” god as a modern day bike messenger while following the tale of three business men and their struggles in corporate San Francisco. It’ll be showing on July 15th and if you especially liked my drawing you can even pick up a poster while you’re there!

Really nice review of Skin Horse on Small Press Reviews here.

Just finished uploading a few of the prints I made during my study abroad last summer into the miscellaneous prints section. While somewhat experimental due to being produced with the intent of learning new non-toxic printing techniques, they are also some of the last prints I made before graduating college and represent some of the ideas I’m currently working to incorporate into my work.

I expect that over the next week or two I’ll have a lot of small additions and adjustments to make to the site, but hopefully that will all be settled fairly soon.

This project has been in the works for quite some time and I’m very pleased that it’s all done and ready to be shared!  Previously, updating my site with something as simple as a single new image was a very difficult and time consuming process that often resulted in the entire site breaking.  No longer!  Thanks to Myrrh Larsen and WordPress, my site is now very easy to update and manage and (hopefully) will not break at the slightest tap of a keyboard.

While no doubt relatively simple to anyone who knows how to code, the thing that most amazes me is the way that thumbnails are automatically added to the sidebars in my gallery areas.  Now that the whole process is so simple I’ll be updating my galleries much more frequently.  Expect a small flurry of posts here over the next few days as I add more images to the galleries.  Meanwhile, drop me a line and let me know what you think.

Last week I headed up to Portland for their yearly Stumptown Comics Fest.  A few of my larger projects have been taking longer than I’d originally wanted but I really wanted to have something new, so I took a moment to ask myself a few questions.  What is it about a book that really makes it mine?  What is it that I want to add to my table? How much work do I actually have time for?

Just in time out came “Balloon”. I knew I wanted something very small, the book itself is only 2 and 3/4 inches by 4 1/4, and inexpensive to make.

In “Balloon” I wanted to create a situation in which the reader would read up instead of down as we are trained to do. By adding flaps that unfold I can lead the reader in any direction I want. I’m really looking forward to using this in another larger project.  I completely underestimated how popular this book would be and sold out of what I’d made up completely.  Luckily unlike my other books to date this one isn’t editioned so I’ll be able to keep making them as long as people seem interested.

I’ve known for a long time, but making this really reminded me how much one of the key aspects of my work is the physical structure of the book.