something is bound to happen.

empty office in my dad's shop that i am currently occupying.

Witzend #6, 1969

i saw these on a golden age of comics blog, dynamic compositions, really well executed, awesome. never heard of the book but the artist is jeff jones who also did work for Creepy and Eerie magazines as well as his own series 'Idyl', which was fairly popular at the time.

FREAKS

doppleganger

needs more work.

compost

compositions for three painting final that must display thematic development. these are loosly based off of crime scene photos that i cropped. 

lay-yurs

ten layer painting for final, i figured most paintings are more then ten layers, so i would make them visible. this is more of a drawing with paint than a painting. about 2' x 3' on pine panel.

abundance of absence

drawing for griffin's exquisite corpse compilation book

"Shelocta, PA" by Philip Elliot, 1943

Sketch based on a painting I liked at the Albright-Knox gallery in Buffallo by Philip Elliot (who I can find no other work from elsewhere)

Hey, How'd You Get Here?

development for a painting that pulls concepts from literature. This one is based on Edgar Allan Poe's "A Tell Tale Heart". The narrator is unreliable, claiming sanity as he recalls his obsession with an old man's blind eye and his heartbeat. The "eye" which drives him to murder the old man is actually him, the "I". This story also explores the relationship between the imagined and the scientific.

"'Villains!' I shrieked, 'dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! - here, here! - it is the beating of his hideous heart!'"

investigation

composition sketch for 9'x5' painting on unstretched muslin

In the Midst

next picture for the show (texas chainsaw massacre again)
portrait by my friend Sam Pribish for one of her photo projects

Poster Jams

max and i whipped this baby up in 30 minutes flat

stencil painting

I was going to use this composition but I felt that the figurative gesture was more emotive.

done with stencils/acrylic paint/high gloss acrylic enamel

slag

photo reference taken by my father back in the days of old.
preliminary (15''x22'')
final painting (2'x4')

star gazing

brush and ink drawing overlayed with multiple tracing paper/colored sharpie and scanned. its the whole image but this is all i could fit onto the scanner bed.

"what happened was true"

Studio Sessions (B-sides)

lou fine "the ray"
sketch for upcoming painting assignment with 10 visible layers. I am going to utilize transparency to produce color overlaps inspired by overprinting in old 4 color comics (pictured above).
drawing for upcoming moka showka w/ max davis. i'm doing a series of drawings that loosely reference screen captures from horror movies (1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre shown above)
a place where things happen (15'x15')
painting based on a color (2'x3')
jamming
two norwegians, one dream; the norwegian pizza factory

needs more work, cold wax medium (4'x4')

conceptually speaking

during the debate

Stoneybrook specimens.

local state park inhabitants.

throwing up.

Zack jobbed Max and I out to help him throw an illustration up on the graffiti wall for his lamp design project, Ill Light. I did the creature, Max the mountain-scape, and Zack the text.