Giant Robot 2's Eleventh Annual Post-It Show

Hello my long-wondering-what-I'm-up-to blog followers! Let's just say my 2014/15 years have been a time of introspection and exploration. I've been taking workshops, webinars, and online classes. I've been taking trips and attending conferences. Basically, soaking up a bunch of knowledge and being inspired a whole lot.

And I've been creating. I've continued to experiment with my brush-pen patterns and designs. I've even started doing some representational experiments. I have an exciting new personal project focusing on just that, I'm hoping to get it started in early 2016.

In the meantime, I'm very excited to announce I was invited to participate in Giant Robot's Post-It Show Eleven! The show opens at the LA gallery on Dec 5th, 2015 (check for show news here). Here's a preview of the pieces I submitted to the show:

15 post-its submitted 

"7 of 15"

Some interesting bits about the show this year: All artwork is completed on actual Post-it notes. All Post-it's are $25 (50% goes to the artist). Over 450 artists are confirmed for this year's show — including Dan Santat, Susie Ghahremani, J. Otto Semibold, and Jamie Zollars!!  (forgive me other children's book peeps, the list is SO LONG I may have missed you).

Illustration Friday: FAIL (1)

Late again, but I assure anyone that actually follows this blog at all that I AM working on IF concepts, for present and past themes. I'm a bit out of practice at the moment, this is a messy submission. But it is one of my favorite quotes about failing. The learning is always in the failing. While working on this lettering piece, I was doodling some other ideas and I found one I really liked. I'll be working on that and "primitive" next... and try to fill in the gaps later. It's great to active again!

Quote 2: Kierkegaard

So I'm going through a time of real self-evaluation - asking all the usual questions: Who am I really? What do I want to do with my life? What do I want out of life? What really makes me happy? etc, etc. I'm reading lots of books, exploring lots of radically different options... all I know is I need a big change. So, I'm working on figuring that out. I've been reading lots of books and listening to interesting interviews, podcasts, and radio. Some of it helps, some of it makes me feels worse, but it's part of the experience. I found this quote in one of my many books and thought, yeah, this is the right sentiment, I need to remember this.

Portrait Party 2: Wonil 2

Okay, this on is just embarrassing, but I'm posting in good faith. I'm putting it all out there, even the bad stuff. Sorry Wonil - this doesn't look ANYTHING like you.

Illustration Friday: RED

I know this is very late, but I do have a good excuse. I was travling abraod! I've just got back from 10 day work trip to Germany and France. I had a lovely time, but I didn't get to stay up with my IF while I was away!

While this is a random sketch I did a few weeks ago, and highly inspired by the beautiful drawings of Petra Borner, it obviously suites the theme of 'red'.

Getting to work now on the new theme...more random work coming.