First Photos from the Comics Covered Art Show on July 2, 2009 at Caffeinated Comics in San Francisco, CA.
Opening night show set up, one wall featured all the artists in the show. The show is getting re-arranged in the next few days so more work can be put up and it can stay up longer in the space.
Jen’s Comics Covered Cake
I’m actually part spider.
Check out these crazy Art Cars in the Mission that showed up for SF Indie Fest…
Camera Van….. look at all those cameras. Many of their flashes still work… and in case you didn’t catch the web address it’s www.cameravan.com
Van driving down the street with a small model of NYC on it, maybe, it was going fast.
San Francisco Pillow fight at the Ferry Building, Valentine’s Day, 2009
Update: In the SF BAy Area once more, helping out Richard Tuck and Playland-Not-At-The-Beach. I’ll be there for a while so let’s hang out Oakland! You’re too cold Chicago….
Random eye candy: Russian faux-woodcuts featuring today’s hottest movies!
Lord of the Rings! or the Hobbit. Also, is Frodo/Bilbo giving the finger? You be the judge….
Spiderman, those arms pouring a cup of wine really creep me out…
Sex and the City: the Movie! But I don’t know which of the characters is Sarah Jessica Parker.
I actually found these amazing images via printeresting.org a considerably better blog than mine, produced by Amze Emmons and a crew of talented printmakers, check it out….
The major project for the end of 2008 was finishing up the World of Charles Dickens display at Playland-Not-At-The-Beach, in El Cerrito, Ca. For those of you who don’t know, Playland is a museum dedicated to bygone amusements but is filled to the gills with Amazing stuff. The World of Charles Dickens is the last and biggest of the inital attractions planned. Years of planning, hundreds of man hours and tons of styrofoam went into making this room. This is one of things that pictures can never do it justice. I snapped about 100 pictures but none of them really capture the scale of it. You’ll have to stop by and see it for yourself, check out www.playland-not-at-the-beach.org for more details.
Springtime/Oliver Twist Display
Seaside/Pickwick Papers display
detail of Winsor Castle
Meanwhile back in Chicago:
Basement studio at my new house in Lakeview.
First painting I’ve done in 5 years….pretty dumb.
Took a quick trip to London. I crammed as much as I could in in three days.
Trafalgar Square
Portrait of a Grotesque Woman. Painting in the National Gallery.
St. Paul’s cathedral.
Blurry postcard from the interior of St. Paul’s.
Another blurry postcard featuring the ceiling of St. Paul’s.
Sculpture of a giant head in the British Museum.
Mayan Wall carving from the British Museum.
Heads on Spikes.
Temple in the British Museum.
This is the great hall that houses the Parthenon exteriors.
Statues from the exterior of the Parthenon.
Man trying to knee a centaur.
Post apocalyptic bunker installation at the Tate Modern.
Andy Warhol piece at the Tate Modern.
Graffiti space of the Tate Modern.
Painting of two ladies at the Tate Britain. The painting is of two ladies who were born on the same day, married on the same day, and gave birth to children on the same. This incredible series of events warranted their portraits.
Taking summer classes at the Cyprus College of Art
Exterior of CCofA. Located in the old Turkish section of Larnaca Cyprus.
My studio (i’m looking pretty pissed in this photo). Photo by Nicola Stead.
Studiomate, Gerry, hard at work.
Nicola in her studio.
Also, since being here, I’m blasting through sketchbooks
Sketchbook 7 and 8.
Here are random pages from the books. It’s really just me goofing off…
Santa Claus and the Easter bunny Vs. Robots on page 98 of sketchbook 7
Scalding Tea page 4 of Sketchbook 8
Birthday party page 8 of sketchbook 8
Fat Samurai Vs. the Hydra page 12 of sketchbook 8
Page 108 of Sketchbook 7 which is a sketch of the print….
Colored in print of Un-welcome Dinner Guests. I don’t like this huge print.
Plugging away on a new series of woodcuts
Detail test of a woodcut I’ve recently carved entitled “The (un-welcome) Dinner Guests”. This thing is 60 cm by 80 cm making it the biggest thing I’ve carved in six years. It turns out that it may be too big. I can’t find decent paper on the island that size to print on. I’m actually thinking about recutting the whole image smaller (a shame I know) to fit with a series that I’m considering doing.
Nostalgia drawing from sketchbook 6. In case you were wondering what those epic battle scenes that I used to draw as a kid looked like, here’s a bigger one that I recently drew.
Ancient floor Mosaic from the House of Doinysus in Paphos. I’m really inspired by the borders, which is why I’m also considering recutting the (un-welcome) dinner guests.
More Mosaics
Besides the Masaics, we’ve been heading to old churchs in the mountains and veiwing the frescos. These are really amazing but you’re not allowed to photograph them. I have some post cards and I”ll be posting them in a few days.
Ancient Ruins of Kurion, located near Lemessol.
Famagusta’s DMZ. This is an abandoned stretch of beach in the north that runs for miles. No one is allowed to enter it since the war in 1974. Note the crooked shot because I had to shoot it discreetly. Armed guards in the area don’t look too kindly on people taking photographs of this area.
Traveling a bit. Stopped back at my Grandparents farm in Missouri and uncovered more old drawings including all my sketchbooks from age 5 to 18…
This pig is a snappy dresser, and I think he’s carrying an axe. 
This frog is grammatically challenged…I wouldn’t trust his opinion on reading. 
Now this strange, rainbow colored, smoke bellowing car looks like its opinion on reading is one to be regarded.
My older sketchbooks are filled with these elaborate battle scenes that I used to draw. For nostalgia reasons, I decided to draw one in my newest book but it was a pain in the ass. How could I spend hours drawings these?
My sketchbooks from high school are filled with notes to me from my mother. I guess she felt that this was the best way to reach me when she wasn’t home (this was in the stone age before cell phones). The story behind this note: for some reason, my parents wouldn’t give me a key to the house. I’m not sure why…it was really ridiculous because I usually got home from school before them and I would have to break into the house by taking the screen off a window and crawl in (to all time traveling burglars; 218 Woodridge ave. in Iowa City is really easy to break into from the years 1997 to 2002). but then there would be times when I would really need a key and they give me one of theirs…was there some sort of rule that said that they couldn’t own more than two keys to the house? Who knows….
Grandpa Bock shows off a meteorite that he found in one of his fields years ago (it now resides in the flower bed).
My newest nephew, Grady Norman. 
Aidan, my oldest nephew, takes a pit stop to clean out his nose.
Matt and Lena Reynoso have started an art studio and gallery called the Compound. Jen and I have been down there helping them tear down walls and ceilings getting the space ready for people to move in. Spots are open now if you’re interested check out http://thecompound.ning.com/
Matt finishing tearing out a wall
This is the former walk in Beer Cooler that’s being turned into a common work space (check out those awesome beer cooler doors, the gallery is on the other side, so when you’re in the gallery you can see the work studios behind glass).
Other things:
A disappointing comic by Garret P. Bock at RPS’s DIY art show Feb 29th, 2008
Cake at the Show
Schuyler Robertson featuring his work at the RPS DIY show (please note that EVERY photo of Schuyler that I have is him making that face).
Jen hits me
Ed Cassel is working on some huge pinball back glass paintings down at Lucky Juju’s storage space on Alameda’s old Naval Base. He invited us down to check out his work.
The Lucky Juju’s storage area
Fireball!
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