See You all TOMORROW at Foodstock! Part 4

Hope everyone is clearing their schedule for tomorrow night! That's when Foodstock is happening! Here is my last reveal for you all: Otto Von Bismarck! He was the Chancellor of Prussia and partly responsible for the unified Germany of the 20th century. He also loved sausage.

See You all at Foodstock! Part 3

Today's Reveal is the indelible Pac-Man! He's been mesmerized by an edible pizza that takes up his appearance when being eaten.

See You all at Foodstock! Part 2

Today's Reveal is Winston Churchill- former Prime Minister of Great Britain. He was also a huge fan of oysters and brandy. Well, that and cigars.

See You all at Foodstock! Part 1

Hello everyone,

We are about a week and a half away from the Food Stock Art Party I told you about in my last post. Since the event is just one night I want to present the pieces here on the blog first- one at a time of course.

It is my hope that folks will like them enough to come out and see them in person...and perhaps bid for them? All proceeds will be going to Operation Food Search!

Today's Reveal: Cleopatra!

Cleo is presented here enjoying some post-mortem babaganoush. I probably had the most fun drawing the snake.

David Bowie

Sneak Peek: Food Stock Art Party!

Hey everyone-

Been super busy lately- I am happy to announce I'll be in four different shows this Fall! The first one coming up is The Food Stock Art Party- which is sponsored by AIGA St. Louis, will be held on September 23rd at the Mad Art Gallery. All proceeds will be going to Operation Foodsearch- should be a great time! You can find all the info on it here.

I'm producing 4 different food-themed editorial illustrations for the project. The only requirement was that the art be related to food or sharing- so I decided to use this as a good opportunity to make exciting historical person illustrations.

Once the show goes live I will post the finals- but in the interim enjoy this sneak-peek of the work in progress taken from my laptop.

Enjoy!

Tabloid! My illustration of the Movie

About a week ago I read this review over on npr.org about the new Errol Morris film "Tabloid" and was so intrigued that I knew I had to draw an illustration for it.

The idea of a camera focused on a camera focused on a crazy woman blew my mind. My creative urges soon got the better of me and I ended up pursuing what I originally envisioned as a spot as an epic "splash page" image. I like to think it functions well as a triptych.

I had a ton of fun researching costume and printing presses for this one- and decided to pursue a very flat color scheme based around some of my love for old screen print books.

I'm including the rough and some close-ups below.

IF: Stay

Normally I would add this with the other sketch pages on the twitter feed but for this instance I wanted to add this one in for this week's Illustration Friday theme. Still enjoying these sketch pages.

New Illustration- Basta Bunga Bunga

I read this article in the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago and was sorely disappointed that it had a photo-montage accompanying it instead of an illustration. I am certain that the story would have been perfect for someone like John Cuneo.

At any rate, I took it upon myself to mak an illustration for the piece, which involves the frivolous misadventures and sexual escapades of the current Italian Prime Minister. Wanted to post this asap, but hope to update this with sketches and some more process later today. Had a lot fun with the armor- which is usual for me.

Some Recent Warmups/ Experiments

Thought I would share with you all some recent warm-up sketches/color studies I have been doing. I've been wanting to practice better color-relations and have been especially influenced by old cartoons like Mission Hill and Doug lately.

I always enjoy the graphic results of using flat colors, and this lets me explore interesting patterns too. I've been posting these almost daily over on my twitter feed, and hope to keep doing so as time allows.

Cheers.