Shirt Design: Angry Viking

I made a t-shirt design this weekend, commissioned by my cousin Daniel, aka El Patron.  The process for the final design is kind of interesting, I think, so it will be described below.

I'll be making and selling t-shirts with various designs and art work on them for $25 a piece.  Let me know if you're interested in a custom shirt, or in this one in particular.

All in all, I think it's a pretty badass viking.


Check out other t-shirts I've designed here.

Somehow I've been most productive on Sunday.

It turns out giving myself permission to chill actually increases my ability get stuff done.  I'm cool with that.

Here is one of the things I did today.  

"Choose"
8" x 8"
Diluted/textured acrylic paint, pen, acrylic ink

Plastic Wrap—Who Knew?

I watered down some green paint, poured it over a piece of paper, scrunched plastic wrap and smushed it down onto the paper between two pieces of wood.  After that dried, I repeated the process with watered down blue paint.  I was extremely pleased with the result.
I then drew on the paper, resulting in this drawing:

Untitled
8" x 12"
Acrylic and pen on paper

I Lose Things.

I got up early this morning . . . something like 4:45.  Getting up early has its benefits (of course, not ONLY benefits).  I brought a large, rolled up drawing I'd worked on for approximately 5 hours yesterday to work on in a coffee shop this early morning. It was rather chaotically sticking out of my bag.  Until it wasn't.

Somewhere on the walk I lost it.  Having gone over my route 4 times,  I decided to say goodbye.  I must admit, though,  I really liked that drawing.  And I'm really sad that my airheadedness has such unfortunate consequences.

In attempts to move on, I pulled out a 3" x 5" piece of plexiglass, and painted it backwards.  I started with black paint on the back side, moving on to red, then grey, and finishing with white.  there's about 4 mm of plexiglass between what you can touch and what you can see.

"untitled on plexiglass"

Overall, I'm happy with the results of the experiment, but I'm still brooding about the loss of that drawing.  I was really excited about it.  I wish I could show you why.

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She Can't Remember

"She Can't Remember"
18" x 24"
Chalk on Paper

I'm really happy with how the expression in this one came out.



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"Cold Inside"

"Cold Inside"
18" x 24"
Colored Chalk on Paper

I lost a big chunk of my thumbnail while working on this one.
It was worth it.




See other chalk drawings.
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Come and See

"Into the Deep"
18" x 24"
Charcoal and chalk

I've underestimated the simple medium of charcoal.  It's likely it will find its way into much of my current work.

Practice Makes Possibility

"Second Thoughts"
Approximately 6" x 7"
Acrylic on wood

Icicle Creek

This photo was taken up Icicle Creek in the woods.

The Boy in the Wall

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Into the Sea

"We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.”

—James Gardner

This is an old photograph taken with an even older camera along the coast of Oregon, and tortured for some time in Photoshop.  See more of my photo manipulation here.

Beehive Lake

This photo was taken at Beehive Lake, southwest of Wenatchee, WA.

You can find more of my photographs here.

Impass

here is here is here is here

the question of where
or how
keeps pecking the side of my head
ow
and I'm trying to get up,
but what's the difference between real and imagined?
I forget
which is which is which is where is how

keep finding the tip of the branch,
the most recently placed stone
without breaking it all
without tipping the domino line
without breathing on the card house

because I need to find it.

This photo was taken in Rhode Island.

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Backflip (Photograph)

This is a photo of Kenzi.

See more pictures of humans.

The Living World

I think it's funny how we project our humanity into everything we see . . . and also how we fail to recognize life in things that don't move and change as quickly as we do.

This is an oil painting on a 3' x 4' canvas: my first with this medium.

See more of my surreal landscapes.

Stand Firm—Pencil on Vellum

 This picture is included in my Philippians series.

Foot in Mouth

I admit it: this drawing is weird.

"Foot in the Mouth"

See more of my colored pencil drawings here.

The Purification

This image is based on text in the book of 1 John. It is the first piece I've had displayed in a gallery.

Water soluble ink on vellum.
14" x 17."

See more of my ink drawings.

We are thirsty

They said they would give us water—so we came. We choked on dust, but we followed, our tongues hanging out in anticipation.

They gave us water. It came to us in shiny cups, glinting in the sunlight. We held out our hands, we held open our mouths.

But this water didn't quench our thirst.

This water cracked our dry lips, shriveled our tortured intestines.

Now we are more thirsty than before.

I have more portrait photography.  You can find it here.