Kaboom!

Over Memorial Day weekend during some of my "down time" I doodled a couple of random funny strips. Above, is one of the doodles. I'll post the other later this week.

Doodles

Back in late March I took a trip....a long road trip to Florida for a wedding. Between my audio books, sleeping, and gaping at the immense volume of "adult" road signs in northern Florida I did some drawing, nothing profound, just doodles to keep my mind active.

Pen and Ink - note book

Pen and Ink on Note Book Paper

Alabaster gets a cover...

Over the past three days I've found myself in the midst of a paradox of exhaustion and intense energy. I've officially crossed the 50 illustrations marker on this project (though I still have over 60 yet to complete) and am more than a little tired after several months of work. Sunday afternoon I decided to take a break from the inside of the book and try my hand at the cover art...an idea that I've been reluctant to even touch. However, after several hours of experimenting I took the plunge and the I couldn't be more excited at the final product thus far.

Watercolor, Pen and ink

I hope to add some slight color hints digitally later on, that will bring out some of the hidden color.

Looking back

Several days ago, a friend e-mailed me about some of drawings I created a number of years ago during and around my weekend visits to Chicago. I haven't taken time to look back over all of these drawings and reflect their significance in my development as an artist, storyteller, and overall individual.

These drawings as a whole are at their center a map of a time of my life and the things I observed and struggled to comprehend. They are a story in and of them self.

God Is Sleeping 1- 5

As promised, here are the first 5 pages from part 2 of God is Sleeping, written and illustrated by myself and a team of arctic gnomes that blackmailed me into assassinating the queen of the trolls...

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4


Page 5

Stupid cartoons...

Messiah Complex
7 x 10 Pen and Brush and Ink


"I wish that I could change the world and save everyone from their own nature...I wish, I wish, wish..."

Little Girl

Faith or Death, or little girl, big gun - Brush, Pen and Ink 9 x 11

Sunday Morning at 7:00 am I found myself sitting in a relatively vacant terminal at Tampa International Airport waiting for my 10:30 flight to depart. I spent the next 3 hours drawing various things in my journal - That I'll post later - but the most random thing was this drawing that is part homage to artist Ashlee Woods and part exploration of children that believe but don't understand their own religion. That part stemmed from 2 things: 1. the residence Aimee and I stayed at in St Pete earlier last week and 2. the film Jesus Camp.

In other news, I've decided that I will post a new piece/journal entry after I receive 5 comments from 5 different people. So there it is friends, the ball is in your court. I've been busy creating and will post much more as you comment...


Matt