Well as per usual I have failed to keep any sort of online posting regular…..I really am horrible at this stuff….For the last few days, instead of frolicking in the sunshine or catching strays…I have instead been updating all things interweb oriented.  That means that now I have new stuff on the website as well as a newly formed gallery at www.fecalface.com and and and, i have reup’d my I spot profile. Oy vey.  Its been a fast and furious couple of months….I moved…again. I think i compensate for not leaving oakland by changing my residence every year.  It works for now, but is starting to get really old…hell the bedroom is one thing but cramming a whole studio into a new residence is kind of a bitch.  Oakland is Oakland…wonderful in so many ways….just a little small for me at the present.  Its crazy, i have lived here for 8 years now and it feels like i know just about everyone in the town…its not a bad thing, it just makes me feel beyond my age….bah. at least music has been good lately! dont know if its the weather changing or just me. but it seems that lately all i want to do whith what little spare time i have is sit in a well lit spot with a good glass of rye and listen to Sera Cahoon, Lucero, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, or Son House.

well thats the up to the minute with my day to day…here’s the work.  I have had more and more requests to post works in progress. so here are two newer pieces that i had preliminaries done for.

This first one is a piece i did for the Seattle Metropolitan back in december.

The first image is the ink drawing that i did on arches watercolor paper…and the second is the finish…this particular assignment was totaly fubar.  So much miscommunication went on between me and the art director that i ended up doing two complete finishes…I did the color for this almost exclusively in the computer…usualy a painting tool that is absolutely foreign to me…but i think the desperation and crunch( a one day turnaround) to get the piece done really shined.

This next one was for a collection of short stories by a lovely lady named Kathleen Wakefield.

I was really please with how this turned out..My friend Morgan modeled for me and I think using her as the subject really made the piece.  I also got to play around with this new line of golden liquid acrylics that was a lot of fun…..I’m trying harder to push the painting and not rely on my ink work…quite the challange indeed.

I am in the middle of working on my friend Trevor’s Book cover for his collection of poems…which is absolutely gorgeous by the way. and i am doing a drawing for an australian magazine called DeathMook.  I’m not making any promises…but i will try to get it all posted within the first week of next month….oh and incase your wondering what happened to the band of horses piece.  It is now 3rd in the firing line…every time i buy myself time to do some personal work, life gets in the way…so we’ll see how it turns out after sitting in my to do folder for what, four months. ugh.