Abandon battle ship

I feel that this one needs clutter to cover the floor boards of the platform.  Sorry to say got lost in the line weights and trying to get across the different textures and didn't take as much time considering what needed to happen as a work.  I can totally see a host of chairs set up like a deck and/or children's toys and furniture thrown hap hazard across the entirety of the platform.  The work is still fun; drawn more or less from an actual tree that lives in a public park downtown South Port North Carolina.  My mom was talking to me about how it would be a great inspiration for one of my tree house drawings.  As much as a pull from nature I really love to work both the tree and the structure at the same pace and allow each to inform the other.  All the same this was a fun challenge to pull from one established form to inform the other.

Where is my stapler? Part II

Where is my stapler?

Today is a absolutely beautiful day!  We've got the doors all propped open at the shop and I am only working one job; so an easy day.  Was feeling a little Office Spaces[ish] maybe its the contrast of my office and the cubical farm portrayed in the film.  I know the feeling though of the employ that got laid off and no one had the nerve to tell him.  Seems to have happened to me a couple of times with I was working temp-to hire jobs in the past.  

We have two staplers at the shop and this one is the younger of the two.  The other is really awesome looks like it was borrowed from an antic-arts show, has an old old sticker on the bottom "property of the ..... Mutual insurance co. .... New York.  Sure it's got some sort of whirl wind history attached to it;  came to our shop with one of my bosses former co-owners.  But the younger sibling is the focus of today's study, I love it cause it looks so beat up and well worn.  Like so much of the rest of the building and shop materials.  I know that he has been trying to up date the appearance of the shop but its hard when the building has been here since at lest the seventies.  

Who Inspires You?

For the Adventures Soul

This one was a whole lot of fun, though I didn't know how it was going to turn out at first.  Using some wast paper for this exploration.  Really like the added dimension but not sure if I'll undertake another like it.  May be too busy and hard to read as a whole work.   Don't know why I keep creating these dare devil tree houses, that seem to tempt fate.  But guess that's a big part of the fun growing up; tempting fate.

Meet Vernon

Vernon is my oh so faithful noble steed.  Thought he deserved some reconciliation as I drive him more than he would like and wake him up so early in the morning.  He's a good steed as long as one keeps his antifreeze topped off and oil change.  He is a gray blue 1989 Jeep Cherokee Laredo; and works really hard to get me to and from work in just the nick of time. 

Figuring

Have been a little wishy washy about posting this piece.  I think it's a fun exploration into how I start a figure project. Especially when I am creating without a person in front of me and creating from my imagination and combination of different faces that I can find on hand.  

Details;  cheap ink pen on drawing paper.

Pick Up the Phone

Another exploration of everyday things, drew this one a while back.  It's been lost and re-found a number of times feel it's time to share before it's lost once and for all.  My house phone isn't nearly as much fun as the one that I use everyday at work.  Love taking everyday objects and making them into interesting pieces.  For this post have cropped super tight allowing for the lines to play and speak a little louder.

Details;  ink pen on copy paper

Chair / Build Project

This was a really fun build project.  We were to chose an image, painting, drawing. That had a piece of furniture in it and build that piece.  I was at the time taking an art of Disney course and chose a conceptual work from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. We were to use the work as a way to figure out what we could not see.  I love this piece almost as much as my nephews, who find that it is there size chair.

Details; 4"x6" pine, wood glue (only for lamenting, everything is dry fitted) dark polythene

Coffee Table / Build Project

Have been encouraged to re-post my coffee table build project from school.  I loved this project, originally created for a Urban studio project.  But found cleaned up and reworked a little to become an idea for a different small product build studio a little later in my study.  My proposal was that it would be a dinner table for an elderly couple that would living on Mars.  I did build the table in roughly half size, sitting happily as a coffee table in my living room.

Details; Bendable plywood, paint, rod iron (reused outdoor banister).

Favorite scene from a more recent drawing project.  Wasn't lucky enough to win; still really enjoyed the challenge and practice. It's always fun to have projects to play with.


Details:  Ink pen on drawing paper.

Me

The best expression of self can not be expressed in a single word or idea.  Only how we hold our selves when the chips are down, behavior towards other no matter how they treat us, lift up those who are in need, in this way we are wrapped up and become our selves.  

Haven't drawn people in a good while so here's my best rendition of my self.  Good thing I created this project; my current proposal is much more complex and is all about human form and the interactions of two people.  Posting may fallow, depending on how well it is received.

Sweetness

I love me some chocolate cake.

Details:  ink pen on drawing paper.

Happy Valentines Day

This one is for you Catherine.  Inspired while we went out to eat in a strip mall near my apartment.  These two children were racing up and down the side walk in front of all the shops.  No parents to be seen, at one point they had stopped and some how gotten valentines balloons from Party City and where still racing back and forth balloons in tow.

Der Wagen Haus

Had a brain storm the other night when I couldn't sleep, counting down the hours to 5 am and having to get up for work.  Thought about one of my jobs and there lack of a real logo for the shop.  Devised and developed this half in my sleep and the rest worked out on paper shown here.  If he every choose to take this work on as a logo would want to clean it up a good deal and refresh a cleaner font in the actual drawing at the very lest.  Hope you all enjoy it, don't believe my boss is even looking for a logo but it was a fun activity to keep my brain going.

idea for logo contest

A good friend of mine sent me a logo contest saying that I should enter.  It's for the area Youth Ultimate Frisbee group in the greater triangle area.  A great group that is working to reach out to kids and have a positive impact on there lives.  Where as I love this idea don't know where it will fall within the pack, a big requirement was it needed to have something to do with North Carolina so they could use the same logo in different usage.  I chose to up the two players in front of a Raleigh skyline don't know if it reads that way easily.

I love both of these design, maybe even the smaller version a little more so.  Over all It was a exploration of using negative space as positive.  One thing I love about the larger logo is that it can be placed across the chest of the jersey or along the bottom on the front or back.  The smaller version I feel would be really cool placed right adjusted and run the entire side of the torso but could also be centered as well.

Tanner T.

One of the loves of my life.  Miss him so much.

01/03 - 10/10

Winged III

Sorry it's been awhile to my loyal following, the holiday schedule and all that has happened at the years has thrown me for a loop.  Actually had a weekend off to start the new full year, which was a nice change of passe.  Allowing me to catch up on life, a logo contest that I am hoping to enter and most importantly painting.  (Will share my logo entry once I get it a little more under control and the deadline passes.)

My latest and greatest butterfly winged project.  This one is a little different instead of being on a rectangle stretched canvas it's on a 12" by 12" square.   Though it is a beautiful brown butterfly wing.  It was taken from a completely different photo than the other brown winged work.  I love these there is something fun and mysteries about them, a new story told as a part of the whole. Something just keeps drawing me back to this idea, plus I am sure a break from tree-houses is a welcome change.  

Let me know what you think I welcome the feed back.

Happy Christmas

landscape

Funny thing when ever I am asked about where is home something like this is what comes to mind.  My folks moved when I was in college to what some days feels like the edge of the map.  They live outside of a nice little community.  In the middle of 27 acres mostly surrounded by cow-pastures and Christmas tree farms.  When they first bought the land and were setting to build Google maps showed forest on its best days.  My dad always kidded about living on the edge of the world, where dragons roam.  It makes me sad not to be able to travel home this year, where there is always great food, cooler climate, and loved ones.