Category Archives: drawings

glashaus grand opening (group show)

you may remember that i just recently moved into a new studio. in that very space, this saturday, will be the first art show of many to come. this time around will be an open studios/group show in conjunction with device gallery. in addition to my most recent work on display in my studio, [...]
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3 drawings and a new show

first, i did this mirrored subway car drawing (based on the R36 ) a few weeks ago for a painting i’ve yet to start: then i photocopied it a couple times, cut it out, and taped it together to make a neat little subway car skyscraper that sits perched on a shelf in between some art [...]
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5 more art night sketches

i love the paper in this book.
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31 on the job sketches

when i used to work at MCASD as a security guard it could get pretty boring. there would be stretches of up to 2 hours sometimes where there would be absolutely no one in the museum. thankfully, during those times we were allowed to sit and read. i did a lot of [...]
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new sketch book

i got a cool new sketch book at “stationers” in hillcrest the dimensions are 5.5″ X 8.25″. it’s made of butcher paper and string, with a corrugated paper cover. pretty cool. i did a few sketches in it last night at art night. here they are:
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new drawings, non-photo blue

here’s a few art night drawings. the first 2 are from a couple weeks ago and the last is from last night. that star has a couple butts on it this one’s a little hard to see because it’s non-photo blue on chip board. i don’t usually draw like this but…i don’t know. felt [...]
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some old colored pencil drawings and stuff

here’s some colored pencil drawings from a couple years ago: this one was done during a past art night – it’s a collaboration by myself, joeygold, and gubba: nice lounging bean by GUBBA this drawing i did for a friends (an ex art night core member, NICK) short lived ZINE: it was an art zine, and you had to [...]
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new drawings on fish paper

fellow art nighter, FRIDA, gave me some of this great paper she got while in mexico. it sat in the studio for a couple months until i finally put something down on it. i did these four drawing the same day i made my “black power” collage. here we go: on these first [...]
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