Finalist

I got a phone call this morning from the Oregon Humane Society letting me know that I am one of six finalists in the Oregon Humane Society Photo Contest! Out of 1,500 entries! Woooooo!!!! Here are my entries:

The Finalist:

Maggie is a superstar!

Crazy Train

Will you wear my ring? …RING POP!

Drawings, piglets, and a modest showing

So here are some recent dailies:

That’s my pal Andy Pilarski

Maggie as Clifford

Study for an oil painting

The oil painting – my first in about 10 years! Super fun.

Here’s some lettering I did on my friend Matt’s MFA studio wall.

And then Serenity from the PNCA library was nice enough to let me display some work. Actually, a lot of work. Like, the first half of my 365 Days drawings. So, the show itself isn’t modest, but it’s just my school’s library so where I’m showing is modest… which is good since I’ve never shown my work before. It’ll be up from October 2nd to November 3rd. Here are some pictures:

Pig & Pepper

Here are two fairly recent sketchbook pieces:

Here’s a photo I took of Maggie way back in October 2006. I had just gotten her, and I’d also just gotten a Canon Rebel T2. Good stuff. Anyway, I call this shot “Million Dollar Maggie.”

At the beginning of January I went down to Los Angeles to visit my mom and step-dad. For some reason my step-dad showed me his gold-capped wisdom tooth and I suggested that he turn it into an earring. And look, he did it!

Totally bad-ass.

Color and letters and lines.

This one is about 8 years old, but it’s still one of my favorites. (Micron, markers, gel pens)

And here are a couple of recent sketchbook pieces in which I attempt to get back to wherever I was (mentally, artistically) in the above piece: (Chalk pastel, ink, collage, paint marker)

And lastly… I got bitch-slapped with nostalgia the other day. I wandered into the Books Arts studio at school, where I’d never been before, and found all the letterpress stuff. I was suddenly hit with a memory that I’d never recalled before; I was maybe 5 or 6, sitting in front of the TV early in the morning watching a Sesame Street segment about letterpress. My Dad was sitting in his recliner smoking a cigarette. I remember being completely taken with all the letters, and even more taken by the fact that they were all backwards. Anyway, it was a nice memory. I hope I can find the Sesame Street segment on YouTube.

(Snapshot I took at school.)