nothing like simplicity in the right hands. 

ólafur arnalds - ljósið - by esteban diácono for erased tapes.

i’m working slow.

pencil & conte on recycled paper

hey internet! sorry for the absence. good stuff is headed down this blogway soon, i promise.

ink on bristol board, watercolor, photoshop
(click to enlarge)

hey y’all! this has been an intense week, in the best of ways.

i’ve been wanting to post this project for a little while - it was a lot of work but i am quite proud of the result. it’s an LP cover - the first image is the front, the second is the back (obvs?) - i’ll post more about the finished album/band/project in the near future (or edit this post, i suppose). Click to see larger images.

OMG!! THANK YOU to meghan o’toole for the posts on my love for you and her juxtapoz blog this week. my love for you is seriously my favorite art blog and i’m incredibly stoked and flattered to be featured. she has really fantastic taste (similar to mine. can i make this about me again for a second? thanks.) and loads of enthusiasm for upcoming artists, which really translates in her commentary. i’ve found so much new and inspiring work via her posts. plus, i would drink with her any day of the week (edit: i just realized this sentence doesn’t make sense unless you read her post).

other things you should know about:

• tom bodett has a twitter. also, tom bodett has a whole career that doesn’t involve motel 6, which i did not know about. i suppose that makes sense.

• ‘?????’ on vimeo. i watch this glorious video every few weeks and it never fails to amaze & crack me up. video by david o’reilly / david shrigley (best person ever) / chris harding.

• the dead weather - ‘treat me like your mother’ - this badass video has been posted everywhere by now, but just in case you haven’t seen it…

• freaking awesome paintings by katie commodore (NSFW)

gouache & ink on watercolor paper

i am not sure if this piece is done, but i’m putting it up anyway. between you and me, we both know i’m a lousy blogger. it’s quite likely many of my future entries, along with this one, will reference that lack of consistency, in the same way that most of my email replies begin ’sorry it took me so long’… ANYWAY YOU GUYS. i have a super awesome (i’m lazy with descriptive superlatives) project that i’m dying to post, and it will be appearing here soon.

…is it weird that i don’t talk about the images i post much? i should. i will…

• erika somogyi has a print for sale! i wish i weren’t so broke. as i’ve mentioned before, i absolutely love her work and handling of color. link via my love for you, the best art/illustration blog that you arent reading (yet), and one of the few blogs i check on a very consistent basis.

some sketches which got axed. i like em anyway so here they are. im the crappiest blogger. 

if anyone knows of any good paranormal entertainment, please let me know. i feel ghost hunters has jumped the shark, as they say - the flour in the attic episode? please. don’t even get me started on ghost hunters international (i refuse to even link that). i’m into paranormal state but i doubt it’s authentic, not that it matters to me. AND! the only decent coast to coast host is george knapp and he’s pretty much never on. even i would be a better host than george noory and i cant even concentrate for more than 3 minutes.

good housekeeping illustrations, 1961 [via my new favorite blog cathy of california]

gouache on recycled paper

for my mom, who collects teapots and loves blue.

pencil & conte on recycled paper

went to brooklyn botanic garden today. leaves are the hardest thing to draw ever, true fact.