Experiment Comic and Some Late Night Gouaches.

I had a weird dream about being in space, which led me to a quick scan of a Wikipedia article about exposure in the vacuum of space, which in turn led to the above comic. The images below are some good fun with ink and gouache.

I checked out an exhibition at the Dixon gallery yesterday that featured the work of  Jean-Louis Forain. Not so crazy about his oils, but his ink, watercolor, and gouache work left me excited about trying out a different techniques with wet media. I should also mention that his studies and observational sketches are excellent.

Daily Gouache 7/20-7/29

I started to geek out on dinosaur skulls for a bit. My humble career as an artist started in the second grade, where many thunder lizard drawings were made in the margins of my workbooks.

The bottom image is another music-inspired piece, the strange love child of a Florence and the Machine song and a few other songs that were on my iPod shuffle playlist. These drawings are a lot of fun and usually involve a lot of of experimentation with media and process.

Daily Gouache 7/10-7/19

Another slew of paintings and sketches. I had a particularly fun time with these. Some were experiments in technique, others were just me playing with a few concepts, some of which were influenced by what I happened to be reading or watching at the time.

On a personal note, I've been looking at Barron Storey's journals for some inspiration. He came down to Memphis College of Art some time years ago and shared his sketchbooks with a captivated audience, an experience that left a lasting impression on me. In an interview, he mentioned how those journals were vital for him during periods of isolation and introspection. That said, Barron was going through some serious stuff; my occasional rounds of short term solitude and the resulting lonely lil' hearts are certainly light by comparison. The point of my tangent, however, is that Storey's journals remind me of what a sketchbook could be, and that the process of drawing can be a vehicle for both ideation and emotional respite.

Daily Gouache 6/20-7/9

I've been away from the blog for way too long, embarrassingly so. The Daily Gouache project became the background noise to moving, a lot of teaching, and a sudden influx of freelance work (which is always good). That said, this project is certainly not dead, and here's the backlog from the past two weeks.














NOTE: I've excluded the work from 6/25-6/29 and 7/5, as it's being used for assignments that are pending publication. I'll definitely post them later.

The Daily Gouache Giveaway Winner: Kayla Cline!

The winner of the Daily Gouache Giveaway is the ink-slinging corgi enthusiast Kayla Cline!
Speaking of Daily Gouache, I've been working on a super cool project this week that involves A LOT of gouache paintings. Non-disclosures are keeping me from posting them now, but in the next week I'll have a big process/catchup post :)

Daily Gouache 6/12- 6/19

I've been teaching drawing and comics classes for the past week, and there are still three more weeks of that ahead of me, so the blogging may be taking a bit of a back seat. That said, here's a big catch-up post to show that gouache paintings are still coming along.

The image above was a Father's Day present. Here it is sitting in its rightful place amongst my dad's snapshots and counter ephemera.