Heart and Stethoscope

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

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.

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.

I Never Was Quite Normal Pictures

I realize that I haven't been doing very well at keeping this updated. The end of the semester has been very busy. I have also been busy working on a few t-shirt designs, so hopefully I will be able to post those once they are printed. In the meantime, here are some pictures from my art show way back in March.

Here is the title of the show:

My wall of artwork:

Me with my huge octopus print:

Chris Norton's wall and "POW" sculpture:

Justin Rees's wall:

Lindsey Sawtell's wall:

I Never Was Quite Normal

Because of my busyness, it has been literally months since I posted on here. I just haven't really had any time to make things worth showing. However, I have been gearing up for a show that is opening up this Sunday at the Johnson Gallery at Bethel University. Other participating artists include Chris Norton, Lindsey Sawtell, and Justin Rees. The gallery will be open through the week, and we are hosting a special gallery opening on Tuesday the 10th from 5 to 7 pm.