more from the sketchbook

i got a wicked sunburn yesterday at Jacob Riis park, and am home rehydrating.

Here are some sketchbook pages. At some point after college, one goes into a panic and starts painting pictures of their breakfast. The boy with the kiddie ride is something I'm exploring further...

summatime

here are a few sketchbook pages from this week. the gouache painting is not so good, but check out my sweet ride...

I haven't made anything good in awhile, but here are a few recent subway and wandering drawings.





it's been too long. I dove headfirst into two new jobs before the semester ended, and have been in a weird place all month.

If you're in New York, there's a really good Neo Rauch show at David Zwirner, and Walton Ford is at Kasmin. The only bummer about seeing gallery work this weekend is that many are closed for the Monday holiday. The Darger show at the Folk Art Museum was pretty good, but it made me bummed because I realized I missed seeing Paula Rego's new work at Marlborough.

I'm working on some ice cream truck paintings...stay tuned.

Last week of classes. Totally insane. Here are two new portraits and a few other bits that slipped my radar earlier:

Gandhi:



Sarah Silverman:


Sarah Ritch (a soon-to-be celebrity):


Three self portraits for various assignments:

(A dream I had about Guitar Hero):


(World's fastest rocking chair racer):


(Self portrait as St. Lucy):




Later, alligators.

more gouaches

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof sketches:




Jane Goodall:


Sarah Silverman:


Girls hand fishing for large catfish (noodling):

(Read more about the art of grabbling here.)

bad week

Another bad week. I think they're all awful but I'd rather put something up than nothing. Slash came out ok.

Vince Vaughn:


Christina Ricci:


Erykah Badu:


Fiona Apple:


Olsens:


Slash:

finishes

Here are a few finishes from the previous batch of sketches:

The first Neil Young vesion:


The second (and better) Neil Young:


Jack:


Martha:


Woody Guthrie (no one knows who this guy is anymore, which depresses me):


But everyone recognized this lady (Donatella Versace), which I think is equally sad:

The past few weeks have been really stressful, so I didn't get time to post these. Most of them are in the sketch stage still, but I'll be painting these this afternoon and making new ones this evening. Hopefully I can update tomorrow and sort of catch up.

My first try at Neil Young:


My second try at Neil Young:


Woody Guthrie (just started painting this one; will repost the finish with the next batch):


Martha:


Jack:

banjo on my knee

Here are a few paintings from this week:


This is Brandon. He's amazing. I think he's simultaneously having the most ridiculous spring break in history and working on gigantic, socially-conscious paintings of deer.


This is Laura. She's SOOOOO AMWESOME. I'm hoping she'll have her website up soon, so you can look at her paintings. They're incredible.


The first Son House painting. The drawing was really promising, but then I painted it and it stopped looking cool.


The second version. I like this one better but it's still boring. I'm working on creating more interest in my stuff this week....


This one is pretty terrible too (Steve Buscemi). I spent most of my time this week climbing trees instead of drawing, so I'm off to a rough start this week. I did these paintings yesterday, just knocking them out. I'm out of shape.

I did do a decent painting of my friend Seth Mulvey wearing my sunglasses. He has the best flannel ever:

John Solis NEW WEBSITE! Fresh NOW!

Hey! John Solis has a website (and a middle name) now!

Pretty pictures here.

celebrity spots

I've been working smaller with the portraits, here are a few from this week:

When I did Amy Winehouse, I had originally thought to put her in one of those cut-away things you put your head in to take cheesy photos with (usually at the beach) but the painting was pretty terrible.

I did a few versions...then had some success with this one:



I must have filled three pages with her crazy 'hive.

Here's Little Richard:



Right now I'm working on Steve Buscemi, Frank Zappa, and possibly Vince Vaughn.

That Cool Book by Fantagraphics (Beasts 2 Book)

Some of my studiomates were making work for this Fantagraphics book.

I came up with this guy: