Portland Pins debut at Eli-Phant!

This past week was Portland Pins debut at Eli-Phant on the East end of Portland. Here are some pictures of the process of making about 700 pins and the next few nights at Eli-Phants 1 year anniversary party as well as the rest of the night.




Here's the setup of 2 button machines on one table!


Jess also came to help us out! it was a big help and alot of fun to have her there.









The first customer!








Thanks so much Peter and Sally for letting us put our machine in your store!









I think we stayed up till about 7am on Saturday and watched the sunrise on the east end.

The Photos below are by Bryan Bruchman at HillyTown.com, and the ones labeled at the bottom are by Sam Cousins

Still working

Still working on the large prints, they will be done someday!

Deer Tick is a really good band!

Here are some pics from a new series of prints I've been working on, they are based off of a Coastal Ecosystems book I have and a class I took while at MECA. I really enjoyed the class and have always been a fan of very simple drawings of plants and identification drawings. Here is the first one, called "Seed Vessel", and below is a drawing of the next print I will be doing.

Pink Mountaintops Are Coming!!!

Here is the process for my newest print that I finished up last night. It's for a band called Pink Mountaintops, its the side project from Black Mountain. I'm really pleased with how this poster came out, I also made smaller 1 color prints of the text mountain and hung them all up around town today. The idea of the poster is just to get people wondering about the show, the info is alittle hidden. And actually got asked a few times by passer byers asking where the show was. Which is kind of funny.
The larger Prints are 2 colors on white paper and a few on thin chipboard. I've decided I like all posters better when they are printed on chipboard!
Joy Hung out while I printed and drew a lovely self portrait!











The smaller versions are on all assorted construction paper that was laying around in SPACE not being used.
















Heres a few pics of the posters in the window at SPACE, Ian and myself decided to line 2 of them next to eachother to make a larger mountainscape

show is this sunday

Probably the best stealing of a poster ever! I love it.

The Contemporaries at the Artist Studio Building

Here's a few shots from the night. The above photo is taken my Martha Miller, and below are taken by the lovely Jackie Richardson.



The Rest of the pictures from the night can be view here.

Maine Today also wrote up an article about the event. Read that here.

Also the WMPG Fasion show happened at SPACE Gallery the past week. this is a shot from Sam Cousins of the backdrop that was on the stage, its my poster that I designed!

Sketchbook 4-18-2009

New Sketchbook pictures.

Here's a crazy long blog with alot of pictures about what I;ve been working on!

Here is a massive update of pictures of the process of two of my last prints. The Feel It Robot print for my show that i booked at SPACE Gallery, the illustration is done by Ryan Lamunyon, this was a fun and frustrating print to do, I havent printed a poster like this yet so it gave me some trouble, but not much. still REALLY happy with the outcome. The Jellyfish print I'm really happy with as well. It turned into a show poster for my Friend Sean Morin, so 30 of them were printed with text while the other 20 as still just the print, I should be selling them soon. So ya I dont feel like writing to much about the processes, I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves.

jellyfish print

This is what I'm working on right now for my next print, its going to be on grainy grey paper. the image isent 100% done, i just want to make a post of it now. i want to get to printing this tomorrow, its going to be a 9.5''-25'' poster and be 3 colors with possible highlights of clear ink on it.

The Contemporaries coming to the Artist Studio Building