Bravery--Ten Paces and Draw

This is a quick piece for Ten Paces and Draw, a collaboration in which illustrators swap sketches and make finals from someone else's sketch. The new pieces were posted last Monday and my partner John Lee unfortunately didn't complete a final for my sketch of a lion and bird, but here is my final for his sketch of an EMS.

Elsewhere, I am developing my own project involving shaped div art right now that I will be excited to report on soon. Also, I am creating new designs for Noble Collab, an awesome growing environmentally-conscious clothing company.

Four Scenarios From the Union of Mrs. Lemody and Mr. Alfred Mooshka

This piece, elaborately titled, is a part of the Macro and Micro show at the Light Grey Art Lab going on through May 10th. If you are in Minneapolis, please stop by to see all of the amazing naturalistic work exhibited.

I spent the better part of a week huddled in to the books at the University of Minnesota Biomedical library, studying DNA and transcription. I have always had an interest in genetics (Gattaca was my favorite movie for a long time) but just recently I've started to comb over the specifics. It has been incredibly enlightening as I had always thought the topic to be too heavy duty.

What I find interesting about Mendelian (and even cross) inheritance is the regularity with which particular traits can be predicted in offspring. With these mice I wanted to take two coat patterns not found in typically found in nature and recombine them in to a study with a mouse family, exhibiting four possible outcomes of the birth of Mrs. Mooshka.

Here is the result when stars are dominant, spots are recessive. I plan to create more work in this vein in the future because I believe that this fascinatingly complex topic can be made accessible to everyone. If you would like to check out the other pieces in the show or buy a print you can purchase one here

CatCat Shortcake

Here is an update from the world of CatCat: sugar, rainbows, sparkles, and sugar. All of these things are part of the CatCat's natural habitat. I want to add more soon, but this will do for now.

Good things will soon be available at an online store. Check back often.

Prism Explosion Mural for Very Inc.

Last summer I had the pleasure of working with everyone down at Very in MPLS. I created a mural for the studio using clovers, eagle and bunny cyborgs, and a massive color explosion. It was a dream project and I can't wait to see it produced, this is a quick mockup I made of the final result.

Married to the Sea

  With this piece I started three weeks back, I wanted to make a commentary on a statement that had often crossed my mind, Married to the Sea. What attached me to the idea of being married to the sea was its classical and romantic overtones as well as its application as a method of existence in a variety of contexts. I wanted the sense of adventure and tenacity of a voyage in a ship. I also wanted to create the sea's poor wife in layers of lace and water.

I feel like I succeeded in making a vector painting. Below is a gif with the full process from image, something that I haven't recorded before now--from reference to capture the basic outlines of the face and ship to the creation of my own lines and layered pattern and color.

I am hoping to show this piece some time within the next year. It was designed at 3 1/2 ft but the unique benefit to using vector is that this painting can be printed at 40 ft. I am pretty happy to see this finished so I can share some of my process with you as well.

Hexagon Lace

Working on a big piece under the theme "Married to the Sea". Check back for  progress updates, I'm making lace out of hexagons.

Hakone : A New Free Font

I am proud to announce Hakone, my first typeface! Originally created to accompany my original characters, I decided to expand it to include three different weights and a full set of glyphs.

As well as being cute it would be well suited to use internationally, in a academic thesis paper, or by mathematicians. The three fonts are fully kerned (over 1000 pairs!) but this is also the beta version, so please feel free to write in with issues.

The font is incredibly versatile and stacks very easily, head on over the the link below for a free download:

Download Hakone