Make your own image library

vi.sualize.us is a database of images that lets you pick your favorites and recommends new ones. This is how I've been getting my inspiration as of late. Be warned though it can be addicting.

This image is from lukechueh.com which is also pretty interesting if you wanna take a look.

Octapus Puzzle Piece

Just a little fun for PLAY as part of the puzzle that went to the Tucson Children's Museum.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

NASA has this great archive of astronomy pictures for everyday since June 16 1995. Well not exactly every day but for most days. Regardless there are some cool artist interpretations of outer space phenomena and actual pictures too like this one. You can find them all here. I used the site a lot when I was illustrating that book for my Color & Design class last semester. Happy Browsing!

Looking back over my sketchbooks

I found this ink and watercolor drawing. Just a little post for this morning.

recent obsession

I found this magazine on one of my many day-long trips to Barnes & Noble. It begged me to take it home, so I did and we fell in love. Full of pretty pictures and well-crafted fonts and layouts, Lula is my most recent obsession.

www.lulamag.com

This is from a while ago.

It's a kind of concept sketch for a project for my class last semester. Loosely based on the play Paper Flowers by Egon Wolff. I think I have the final project posted somewhere. I should find that. . .

In honor of my figure drawing class this morning

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I've decided to share a great website for those of us who don't have access to a model. It's called posemaniacs.com and on it you can find images by poses and gender and even do fun challenges like the 30 second drawing. Another plus: these models don't have skin! So you can see exactly what the muscles are doing underneath. It might not beat drawing from a real model but the guys at this site have done a really nice job developing it to make it suitable for artists. So check it out!

Painted Self-Portrait Try #1

"Self Portrait #1"
oil on canvas panel

I've done a second one of these in color since this has been finished but I think I like this one better. Painting is hard. At least it has been for me. I might post the other one some other time if I am feeling particularly showy.

I recently joined a local Polaroid Users Group

and so I went fishing online for some fun stuff and came across the website polanoid.net. They are trying to amass the biggest online collection of polaroids. I would totally contribute if I had any but unfortunately I just missed that trend and now it's out of business. Hopefully one of the groups trying to resurrect the polaroid factories will make it work. Until then I will enjoy this online collection.