Heart and Stethoscope

I did a little medical school themed watercolor for a Secrete Santa gift at school.

Loyola Medicine

I designed a shirt for my medical school last month, and now it's getting printed. It was a fun one to draw. I did the individual drawings by inking them up on tracing paper on X-ray machines at the med school.

Lock and Key

I had a little fun experimenting with gradients and watercolor textures on simpler designs this week while procrastinating for my anatomy tests. Somehow, I still couldn't shake the influence of anatomy in my life right now. It's omnipresent.

Art Disturbs, Science Reassures

In all of the bountiful spare time I found amongst graduating, preparing for medical school, packing to move to Chicago, and planning a wedding, I decided to write a book! Well, that's a part-lie. I assembled and printed a collection of shorter pieces that I did for a creative writing class this last semester. My entire undergraduate experience was a mashup of science and art. This last semester was the first time that I didn't take a lab science course, and thinking about the divisions and unions of science and art intrigued me. Georges Braque's quote, "Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures," circled my brain for weeks after I happened a cross it. While most of the work in the book does not deal directly with the title's theme, I thought it would be a satisfying culmination to four years of studying art and science. The book includes two fiction short stories, one short drama script, one creative nonfiction short story, and four poems. I also drew small illustrations for each piece. I did a very small printing (only six copies), but if you want to see some of it, shoot me an email.

Bookmaking, the Telling Image

I just finished one of my favorite classes of my undergraduate career, The Telling Image: The Art of Bookmaking. I learned about binding, printing, layout, illustration, characters, and plot. I made a canvas hardcover sketchbook (complete with sketches on the outside), a stab-bound book with Japanese paper with a custom black slide box, a few full color spreads for my book on Revelation (unfortunately, I didn't have time to finish the entire thing), an illustrated version of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "A Dream Within a Dream," an according book with two short stories that I wrote, and a couple small projects.

CURE Uganda

My fiancee spent this last January studying nursing in Uganda. While there, they had clinicals at CURE Hospital, a pediatric neurosurgery hospital in Mbale, Uganda. Each year the nursing class has a fundraiser to bring a monetary gift to help support the hospital. This year Justine organized selling shirts, and I was able to help out by designing them. There was a great response, and we made over $2,000 in profit for the hospital. Here we are wearing both color options.

Beast of the Sea

Here's an final scan of an illustration from my book on Revelation for my bookmaking class. With all of the other requirements of the class, it looks like I won't have time to finish it all, but I'm pleased with what I have so far. This is the beast of the sea, done with watercolor and ink.

Fear the Lord

I recently entered the foray of painting with water soluble color pencils. This is piece, highly inspired by tattoo flash, was my first attempt. While there are plenty of improvements to be made, I'm pleased with the general outcome. I have been using this technique for illustrating my book about Revelation and am pleased with the results so far. More to come soon.

Quick Update

It's been an embarrassingly long time since my last post. I spent a month studying in Ecuador. I saw some of the most incredible sights ever. Hopefully I'll have a chance to draw some of the things that inspired me there. I've been busy working and studying for my last semester at school. I have a lot of new pieces in the works, but nothing ready to show yet. In the meantime, here is a sketch for my bookmaking class. I'm adapting Revelation 12-14 and illustrating it with tattoo inspired art. I have a ton of work left, but here's a quick sketch of the beast of the sea rising to wreak havoc. I think it could make a solid shirt design too once it's done.