OpEd

Illustration based on the New York Times editorial titled "Barack Obama, John McCain and the Language of Race"

Meric

PR

I just found out that this first piece I did for a Coastal America competition was selected to be on display in the Smithsonian from December 1st of this year through the end of March 2009, coinciding with the opening of the new Sant Ocean Hall to the public.
And in local news, I was given the opportunity to create an installation of work alongside the always impressive student gallery for the fall term at Art Center College of Design here in LA, which will be up through the beginning of December.

Gustav

Severance

The artwork for a short story I just finished about a guy trying to leave town to quit his numbers job, and a scrap handgun he can't sell.

It Was a Very Good Year

Ocean on the edge

Just finished this poster proposal piece for an ocean science exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific. Still a work-in-progress, but it went from sketch to here relatively quickly it seemed like it might be worth posting.

Silky Shark

Thought I'd post this process sheet just to blow whatever spontaneity the final silkscreen may exhibit. The concept was sort of a love letter to Los Angeles, the beauty and toxicity of it all, for a three-color silkscreen assignment. At the left are the thumbnail roughs, taking the Super Fly approach for a minute, then something about water, then some type. From there the three rough color sketches revealing how increasingly muddied the idea had become.

Finally I went back to try some ink sketches in the hopes of salvaging it using the limitations of three flat-colors. The far right top and bottom ink drawings became the basis for the black and violet screens, and the cropped final silkscreen, the second from the bottom right was one of the alternate color compositions based off those drawings.

Birds

Two-plate etching/aquatint assignment for printmaking.

Dracula's Pajama Party

Hand etching and aquatint print I just finished.