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.