Usurping with Coffee Stains…

It might take me a while, but I eventually do make good on my threats…of course speaking about finishing a new website, finally!

So, Welcome to the new/redesigned website!

Even though it’s been a long time in the works, this being it’s first week finds it with a few things that are still needed, namely: a more complete gallery and a working storefront…..as well as dancing monkeys. I will be adding to the galleries over the next few weeks as I scan or photograph current works – and I hope to have a working storefront in the same amount of time, after I figure out the correct way to appease the Finance Gods (not sure if I’m supposed to sacrifice a money stuffed virgin chicken on the Full Moon or the New Moon….and I don’t know how to check a chickens hymen).
Basically, what I’m saying is: Please stop by! I hope that you like my work, and if you do, check back often for updates.

Con Paredes Para Honrar a los Muertos...

I have four new drawings that will be part of Studio 12's Dia De Los Muertos show. Opening Night is this Friday, October 5th, from 4pm til 9pm. This was a juried show, so I don't have a list of the artists that will have work displayed, but that shouldn't deter you from swinging in and getting so Day of the Dead spirit saturating your bones.

Studio 12 Gallery is proud to be part of the Art District on Santa Fe

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Another Book Plus Twenty…

So, I basically left off my updates here with the completion of the Alphabeasts (albeit, late completion), and during those weeks of drawing and posting, I alluded to the fact several times that I planned on collecting all of them in their own tome (for I like the word “tome”….as well as the fact that many people asked me how they could see or acquire this series).

BUT; (isn’t there always a “but”?) I wasn’t done just by finishing the series. While making the initial list of creatures to coincide with each letter of the alphabet, there were many that turned out to be second runners up….and third and fourths for that matter. So I kept drawing, and eventually completed an additional twenty creatures.

Here is a tease of the additional beasts:

I am still working on this collected volume I’ve been threatening to make available, which will contain all the alphabeasts shown online as well as the twenty added.

I hope to have a bit more information on it in the very near future.

Exit Diogenes…

It truly has been a long time since I posted any updates here, and as many of you might already know, a main reason for that has been the death of an old, good friend Jason Noble on August 4th. Jason had been fighting a rare form of cancer for three years, and his death hit all of his friends and family hard, as anyone could imagine. It also made my little narcissistic ways seem completely unimportant for the time-being.

I cannot really say anything that this article hasn’t said better: http://leoweekly.com/music/carry-him-forward

In any case, a lot has gone on since my last update, and I have a lot of catching up to do. But for now, let me once again say goodbye to Jason, my friend and someone I totally looked up to, and leave you all with just a bit of the beauty he left behind.

Lloyd’s Register from The Sea & the Bells

You will be missed….

Listing Imaginary Orthographies...Part 21 thru 26

Finally! The last six (waaaaay overdue) Alphabeasts. There are at least ten more that I'm finishing up that will be included in the book I plan to publish of all these....

“U is for Unicorn”– 3.5x5 inch - ink on paper

“V is for Vampire”– 3.5x5 inch - ink on paper

“W is for Will-o-Wisp”– 3.5x5 inch - ink on paper

“X is for Xolotl”– 3.5x5 inch - ink on paper

“Y is for Yūrei”– 3.5x5 inch - ink on paper

“Z is for Zombie”– 3.5x5 inch - ink on paper

This was a fun project and I happy to have been a part of it. If you want to see the collection of Alphabeasts from all the contributors, you can do so HERE.