Can't Keep Johnny Down

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I made a silly music video. They Might Be Giants were having a contest in July to make a video for their new song "Can't Keep Johnny Down". John Hodgeman was the guest judge. Those circumstances were much too perfect to just ignore. So I present to you an animated version of my floating head "worried".
You can watch it here ok?

As a side note, how come nobody ever talks about how difficult it is to get a decent looking .mov export out of flash? Why do none of the video sites accept swfs? 2011, you astound me with your limitations in technology.

EP Cover Design

Here is an EP cover design I made for a lovely young musician who produces some quality You Tube performances.

Little Swimmer

Little Swimmer likes to get her ankles wet, but only while wearing water socks. The rocks are sharp and the mud is squishy. It feels so weird.

Made in Illustrator.

Taxi Driver

A few drawings I did while watching Taxi Driver recently. I didn't draw Deniro's mohawk because he only has it for such a short amount of time onscreen. I like how young the actors are in this movie. Drawn with a sharpie pen.

Pépère (Version 2)

Graphite and white conte on coloured paper. 12" x 14".

Class of 9092

Weepy. 14" x 18". Acrylic on canvas.


Worried. 16" x 20". Acrylic on canvas.


Angry. 14" x 18". Acrylic on canvas.

I can't stop making these floating heads. I think they are from the future. But possibly from the distant past.

Sometimes He Just Can't Remember Certain Words

"Hurt". 16" x 20". Acrylic on Canvas. For a while I was trying to remember what the background reminded me of. Now I know. It's moon mist ice cream.

Mircs

Ink and acrylic. 30 x 22 inches.

Facebook Me

Hand drawn & digital.

Red Rabbit

Ink and watercolor on paper.

Guitar Guru

These oil paintings are part of a series of cubist inspired figurative pieces I'm slowly working on. It started with this one that I did in art school, "Guitar Holding A Man" (shown above). I realized making this one (below) that I hate working on a canvas that's completely square.


These paintings have been lying around my apartment for the last year and a half unfinished. This weekend I decided to finish them up once and for all.

The Hobo Kat Doll

Hobo Kat is an original character created by Mirco Chen that I can't get enough of. I made this for him for his birthday. My brother André made Hobo Kat's banjo (that guy can make anything out of cardboard.) Check out some Hobo Kat sketches on Mirco's blog.

I Don't Belong Here

Pen, pastel, and letter stamps on sketchbook paper.

Tough Decisions For Candy Face

I saw this kid at the video store. She had severe candy face.  Despite the fact that she had obviously been eating candy all day, she was allowed one treat to enjoy with her movie. The only problem was that everything she picked up seemed impossible to put back down...

Watercolor on paper.

Meet the Real Life Font Family

   





All members of font family are made entirely out of letters and numbers. Font Sister was grounded and could not participate in the family portraits this year.

Font Mother - Franklin Gothic Book, Font Boy - American Typewriter, Font Father - Baskerville Old Face, Font Cat - Arial, Background in Family Portrait - Futura.

A Childhood Memory

Drawn in India Ink, Windsor & Newton coloured ink, pen and brush on BFK paper. That's me and my big brother.

Alice In Wonderland

Can you find the sleepy mouse? Illustration is based on the novel by Lewis Carroll. Drawn by hand & painted in Photoshop.

White on Black

This is white conte crayon on black paper.

Portraits

My Great Aunt


A pretty depressing portrait of my Mom that doesn't really suit her personality.

I can't claim these are new drawings, I guess they're pretty old now but I need to warm up a bit with the posting, and I don't really have anything new to post. These are all pastel and conte on coloured paper, and the middle one has india ink as well. They all measure approximately 26 x 18 inches I think.