R is for Respite

Here's yet another piece.  Every time I do a watercolor I seem to attack it in a different way...what's up with that?   I also drank way too much coffee before I did the lettering.  Bad move.

Comics

Here's a spec comic I'm submitting to Easyriders Magazine.  Fingers crossed. 

Coquille Paper!

I just dig Coquille paper.  It's not easy to find anymore.  I had to order mine from an Art Supply store in Santa Cruz.  They used to use it in the olden days because it gave a halftone effect.  One of these days I'll get back to finishing the comic book.

Hello, culture lovers.  Here's my latest piece for the Excelsior Rotating Gallery I wrote about in the previous post.  Now to get back to work on the comic book!

Public Art

So, three years ago I had an idea.  Why does everything in my neighborhood have to be a mural?  So I suggested a Rotating Gallery.  We'd get some plywood and people could do a painting and three months later it would be replaced. Everybody gets a turn. No having to stare at the same old thing for 20 years. Well, the city got hold of it ( I could go on a very long and cranky rant about this) and now there's all this procedure attached.  So here are my three ideas I am submitting. 

Scooter Girls

I've always wanted to do an "Al Parker" type illustration.  Today I grabbed an old very rough piece of plywood and set about doing a new piece.  See, my job at the Golden Gate Bridge ends in a week and I guess that feeling of freedom (no more graveyard shift) and impending doom got the juices flowing again.  This took about 2 hours.  I'll do some more work on it later but, for now I'm happy with the results.

Education

So I am putting my art to hopefully some good use.  These drawings are for a comic / coloring book I am doing for the California Land Surveyors Association.  It will be distributed to elementary school children when surveyors come to visit and demonstrate just what it is we do.   I figured it would be a great way to introduce kids to the practical side of mathematics.  I know that when I was in high school algebra and trigonometry were too abstract a concept for me, though geometry was a breeze.  I hope to be able to show how it all applies in the real world.  Only 16 more pages to go!  Larger images can be seen on my flickr page.