Gift

I've been to a few weddings this summer and have made a habit of giving typographic pieces as gifts. Some of my dear friends were wed this weekend, and this is what I crafted for them:

Prismacolor pencil and acrylic on Mylar.

GO!

Here is the first design for a GhostFist [wicked] Go board. Enjoy. Prismacolor pencil on mylar.

GhostFist [wicked]

I am embarking on a large-ish scale venture with a friend of mine in which we will create and sell finely crafted and designed board games. Josh McVety is a masterful woodsmith, and will be fabricating the board themselves, and I will be designing graphics to be printed onto the boards; it should be sweet. We are going to do a pilot piece, so to speak,  of a Go board. I've begun the art that will be printed on the little fella; here's progress:

Sketchmoss

Here's a few choice cuts from the sketchbook that will be cleaned up and colored at a later date.

Royal Crown of the Sea Elves of Akrator

The elusive Røtüsk

It was only after finishing the drawing of this dude I saw
during the Grand Rapids Festival of the Arts, that I realized
it is an aged Bert.

Art auctions.

Hi everyone,

I've started an 'official' Facebook page for my work. You can find it here.

One of the things I will be doing with the page, are bi-daily semi-daily auctions of a piece I make right before I post it. It is an excuse for me to make something quick and fun every couple of days, without any real direction, and perhaps make some money in the process. The first one sold for about ten bucks, so the art can be bought for far less than I would normally sell it. Assuming the bidding doesn't get crazy.

Anywho, the next piece up is this little fella, and the bidding will start at $10. The bidding will end Thursday morning at 3 AM, so jump on it:

8 x 10 inches, roughly.
Watercolor and gouache on
hand-made cold press paper.