Preliminary Sketches

Over the last year I've had a growing desire to get back into painting on my free time so I've been gathering photos, both digital and film, of possible subjects I want to work on through the cold winter months. This is a small selection of places I'm strongly considering and some preliminary sketches. 

The first two photos are from my day trip through Holbrook, AZ, a very interesting and surreal place, and the last 2 are from Rochester, NY and Durham, NC. The restaurant in Durham, NC was my cousin's place and they sadly had to close their doors due to a terminated lease back in the fall. Rumor on the street is the building will be demolished for...you guessed it, luxury apartments. I know, same old story everywhere right now. We figured we should immortalize the beloved restaurant and the building that housed it since they both will no longer exist in downtown Durham.

 

All Good Things Must End

Today is the final day to see "Bathhouse" at Corning Community College. This horrific drawing of tourists and the Bushwick Hotel piece below are the last 2 illustrations from the show for me to blast out into the mighty internet. After I got back from Europe last November I pretty much worked straight through until March to get everything together for the opening. It was exhausting but totally worth it so, I wanted to say thank you to Dave Higgins and CCC for giving my friend, Travis Winters, and I this opportunity. Also, a huge thank you to everyone who stopped by the college to see our work. Thanks!

There is a hotel not too far from my apartment and it looks somewhat like this. It's not this sketchy looking outside but I'm sure there's still plenty of strange situations going on inside. I wanted to create some illustration depicting a fictional scenario that I always imagine happening whenever I walk by it. The place just oozes sleaze and I really wanted to capture it.