1-900-FISH-BEER

New work and new podcast alert! A lot of my neon sign illustrations have been done primarily for my own personal projects so I was stoked when I was contacted by a client that wanted something very similar for the cover art for their new podcast.

The client and I are both boys of New York's southern tier so I swapped out the desert landscape that I usually use for these illustrations and went with that western NY landscape I know and love. Working on that sunset and landscape definitely made me feel a little homesick but, I know there are ticks galore in that tall grass so I didn't get too excited about running, arms wide open, through a field on my next visit home. 

The podcast is called 1-900-FISH-BEER and it premieres on Apple podcasts and Spotify this Thursday (5/18) "Weird fishing stories that are rarely about fishing and almost never about beer" Check er out!

 

Signs on the Road

Recently wrapped up this little series "Signs on the Road". After I drew that little hot dog stand with the devil in the background of the "One Last Dog for the Road" I got this idea to do this little road trip series focusing on some stuff that makes me feel like our ways are leading us down some weird highway to hell, but at least it's filled with modern convenience.

Hoping to be showing these, along with some other pieces, this fall. I've put off hanging this body of work for the last 17 months because I don't have any need for it to make money or anything, I'm just waiting to put it up when I feel good about having people congregate together in a closed space. Thought we were getting there a couple months ago but guess some people just like to help perpetuate this problem. This series is for them. 

 

City Kitties Hit the Country

Some recent personal work I've been chipping away at. I have a good grip of sketches from the last year I'm trying to build up into a body of work about life during the pandemic. City people have probably never engaged with the outdoors more than they did this past summer. I thought the neon cats I have been making over the last few years would lend themselves well to this idea.

I've also been really enjoying drawing grass with colored pencils and crayons this past year. It's very meditative and has been a soothing activity to help deal with all the noise in the world. I could imagine covering a whole wall or room with it someday.

Scroll down for the process pics.

 

I Won't Be Needing You Anymore.

This triptych is part of my body of work currently hanging up in "Character and Narrative" at the Foothills Art Center. I made this series a couple years ago and had no outlet for it other than it was something I had been thinking about and wanted to make. I've been really fascinated by my/our love of the outlaw/classic male and moving ahead with the things we love about them and leaving behind the less than savory aspects. I'm also very interested in how they navigate their way, clumsily, through this changing world. Show runs until October 20th.

Soul Clap & Dance-off with The Detroit Cobras

After the dust settled from teaching out at Touchstone and wrapping up work for the opening of "Character and Narrative" out in Golden, CO. I've finally gotten back into the Soul Clap & Dance-Off poster making groove. I decided to stretch this one out into a more psychedelic realm rather than echo the soul revue posters like I usually do. It was probably the drive through a pretty wild storm in Kansas and Colorado that inspired this. Skim down below to see the photos of the storm that I am referring to. 

Tickets for the show right HERE.

I Won't Be Needing You Anymore

The battle of the modern cowboys has been completed! This one went through a lot of revisions and idea adjustments over the 4 months I was working on it. It bounced all over the place from purely focusing on one subject such as masculinity, business, technology, advertising, appropriation, or nostalgia and I think it managed to nestle in somewhere among all those things in the end. Enjoy all the process pics below.