New Drawings A few drawings from a rare night of sketching digitally. I’ve been revisiting Hockney’s Secret Knowledge in anticipation of my camera lucida and dreaming of the possibilities within drawing. I like the way I think when I am drawing. When I am drawing, I am working to understand both the subject and the medium,…
I’m a sucker for making novelties of my own, and have designed everything from stickers to temporary tattoos and air fresheners to trading cards. I leaped at the opportunity to make some play money for the students at Scera Park Elementary and I had a blast coming up with this design. Anybody else need some…
Wes Kirkpatrick’s music has been compared to some heavy-hitters, including Josh Ritter and Jason Mraz, and he’s shared the stage with Martin Sexton, Blues Traveler and the John Butler Trio. The guy can play. “It is a powerful thing when music can take you out of your current mindset and completely transport you to another time…
LEARN HOW TO MAKE COMICS | JUNE 10-14 Do you have children ages 10-14 that want to make comics? I’ll be teaching a five-day comics class at Higher Ground Learning in Salt Lake City, June 10-14, covering everything from generating and filtering story ideas, developing characters and story arcs, laying out comics pages and speech…
For the last month and a half I’ve been working on my own hidden object book (think Where’s Waldo, but with my own characters). The book is called Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-N-Find Book and it was successfully funded via Kickstarter on March 30. As part of my Kickstarter project I invited everyone (backer or…
“The SMART exhibition is a collection of clever, thoughtful, and whimsical artwork made by 35 international artists. SMART showcases the artist’s quick wit and subtle sense of humor through their use visual puns, ingenuity, guile, and seamless presentations of ideas.” The exhibit opens Friday, May 17 and those of you in Minneapolis, MN can RSVP via the SMART Facebook event page! My…
Scrawl is a new prize winning, digital illustration & comics magazine created solely for the iPad. The Pilot issue won both the “best in the comics category” and the grand prize at the “Magnify your world contest” held by Mag+, and I’m happy to have not one, but TWO illustrations in their newest Day & Night…
I got this awesome award for drawing Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-N-Find Book. It’s pretty cool, I guess.
Album Preview New song from my upcoming album with the New Utah Ramblers. The song is called “Avalanche”: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/90054355″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]