Soul Clap & Dance-Off - Friday the 13th Edition

First illustration of 2023 is here. Jonathan Toubin is bringing his Soul Clap & Dance-Off to Austin, TX to the 13th Floor this Friday, the 13th. Since the party landed on this spooky date we had to squeeze some black cats and ladders in there. I also thought it'd be pretty slick to get eyes moving through the piece by taking the look of dance step diagrams and change it into a guide for how to avoid all the bad luck placed throughout the illustration. And, for anyone that is curious, I drew up Texas icon Barbara Lynn for this poster since the dance-off is going down in Austin.

 

Arizona Road Trip

Since I got a smart phone about 10 years ago I have grown more and more disenchanted with the act of taking photos and I've especially disliked the way photos taken at night look on the iPhone. My partner took note of this and surprised me with an old Olympus Stylus Zoom camera she found on ebay and I finally busted it out while we were driving around northern Arizona a few months ago. It should come as no surprise if you've noticed my process for making illustrations that I am somewhat of luddite and after seeing the results of the first 2 rolls of film I've shot in over 20 years, I have a feeling nothing about my ways is going to change any time soon.

 

"Signs on The Road" #7 - 9

Recently wrapped up a few more pieces in the "Signs on The Road" series. I was originally thinking I would only make 6 but, the world keeps turning and I keep writing down little observations so I'm thinking this will just be an ongoing series until I'm absolutely tired of making these. I can't claim credit for one of these because I pulled it from Neil Young's "Sail Away" one of my favorite songs off Rust Never Sleeps. It felt like doing a cover song that fit in with the concept of an album I'm working on.

There's a pic of the 8 out of 9 pieces I have (1 of them sold last year so I no longer have that framed original) down below so you can see the time changing through the series.