cowboys and critters

Full view, s'il vous plait :)
this is about 11x17. biggest thing I've done in awhile. Acrylic and micron pen here and there. I'm getting goofier and cartoonier as time goes on, and i think I like it.

and I really don't know why i drew this. It's me chasing a cat that's stolen my choco chip cookie dough. Durn varmints.

Ahrt Duhmp

final for the screaming mountains.
I had a lot of fun with this once I loosened up and took my prof's advice. Bob says, "jo, stop trying to paint. illustrate. have some fun with it!"
entry page for the above piece. Can't wait to see what Cristina does with the type. I'll show y'all once we're done. :)

doodled this for Brett's bday. I mean, who doesn't like hipsters licking young pussies?
more doodles. Uh, cut my hair and it's back to being rather fro-ish.
for a views piece in Reporter about kissin' cousins and incest in general.

Finished watchin the Man with No Name series. Had a quick cathartic good bad and ugly doodle.

All acrylic.

In news... Just got an AWESOME apartment with my med ill friend Alivia on Strathallan near the memorial art gallery and by park ave and all those awesome places downtown. You have NO idea how excited I am. Beautiful hardwood floors, LOTS of windows, built in bookcase... oh man oh man oh man can't wait to move in. gotta wait and couch crash for a couple weeks first though.

Hope all's well with yous guys!
<3

I'll shoot your hat as many times as I wanna

5 minute acrylic doodles make me happy.
watching too many clint eastwood movies... :D

Hello darlings. It's been a wild ride, and it looks like a few curves ahead. All good. I mean, curves are awesome, right?That's my cowboy mural. There was an AK47 painted on the floor, too.
There's Greg's awesome mural.



Anyways, we had The Gun Show. Man, I can't tell you how amazed I am that it happened, and how incredibly happy and grateful I am with its success. I pulled that show together in a week, and would never have been able to do it without the help and support of my friends. Special thanks to Greg Caggiano, who helped me set it all up in his studio space, and Brett Seamans n Lucy Lott for helping me get the ball rollin'. Thanks to everyone who gave me work to show, INCLUDING my professors <3

In other news, looks like I'm stayin in Rochester. Good people, good art scene, and I'll probably be sharing studio space in the Hungerford with the previously mentioned Greg and others. If all works out, we'll be trying to do a show like the Gun Show every month.

I'm happy about it. I love my friends here. I'm looking forward to a summer of painting and good music.

Tomorrow- going to Toronto to see Rammstein for the third effing time. Yeaah.
Then pulling things together for the honors show, class, a commission from the barn I ride at (i helped pull a horse's tooth out... gnarly) and other things.

Djangoooo again

sort of coloured... I think i'm going to stick to the mono...
I tightened it up a bit here and there.

bronco

not sure i like the outline. Since this was just a quick one, I probably won't fix it.
Background
Idea.

more photoshop.

'nother cowboy ill. I have another one dreamed up already that I'll sketch up tonight. It'll be another cowboy, but he won't be doing cowboy things. For once.

... I think i just like drawing outrageous cartoony expressions lately.

On cowboys and armadillers

On another cowboy kick.

Photoshop cs5

havin' fun. Not really that tight on the colouring but hey, I had fun. AND there's an armerdiller!

may do more to it sometime, but it was really just more for fun. May do another tonight.

Cowboy mailer

so I decided to do a second mailer because this is another style i have a lot of fun doing.

THis guy happened as I was doodling in class. And so now I acrylic'd him.

8x9. will resize for card when i'm not sleep deprived/burnt out.

DILLOS

I do not know why. but tonight i was possessed by the need... to draw ARMADILLOS. which quickly turned into hungover and dylan dillos.
some colour on that one
Found a photo off the Peace Corps' facebook of a winter scene in 1971 Iran. Thought it was pretty... and then did this in 20 minutes. Then I got bored, because I don't like doing landscapes... and moved on.

Jimi and cowboys

hour and a half acrylic mess of jimi
some cowboys
'nother cowboy
aand another.

Needless to say, I saw True Grit. Hence all the cowboys. It was a fantastic movie, and I highly recommend it.

And Black Swan. And Tron.

I attempted to start some bigger portraits tonight but Northwest Ohio is REALLY lacking in art stores. So... I'm going to pray I find something soon so I can actually do them.

I've been watching Inglorious Basterds and Amelie all night, so currently it is rather tough to think in English.

hm.

Sitting Bear

yay it's done! took about... 4 hours straight.

Acrylic/pen/ink... 11 x 14? I think?

On illustration board.

eh there's definitely things I'd change and still might but.... I had fun with it.

gee, sorry to burst your bubble.

Two boys with rather blumpy egos.

acrylic. for funsies. about an hour.

Frontiersmen

cowboys and spacemen. a.k.a. I've been watching too much Toy Story 3. haha.