Effectus

Hand bound accordion style and finished for senior thesis, May 2010.

Each painting is done in acrylic and is 5x5 inches.

Commencement Exhibition

The MICA 2010 Commencement Exhibition is finally up and ready for Art Walk! My work is in the Thesis Gallery on the third floor of the Fox building and would really love and appreciate some visitors.. or maybe that's just me talking. Either way, it's worth a trip down to MICA!

Childhood Tragedies

It's been forever since my last update! I have to apologize for taking so long to post these, the following watercolor paintings are from the end of my spring semester during my Junior year at MICA. They're all bound into the book shown, titled 1976, inspired by the color palette used in these paintings.

Each painting is 5x7 inches and done with watercolor.

March-May 2009.

ABCs

A 26 page inked and hand-bound book made for Matt with love in December 2008

You're Entirely Too Far Away From Me

Ink & acrylic. 3x2 inches.

Going over to Susan's house..

This is an accordion book I made to go along with the lyrics to Susan's House by The Eels.

It's 5.5x4.5 inches. April 2008.

(I've included lyrics to go with the illustrations)

Going over to Susan's house

Walking south down Baxter Street

Nothing hiding behind this picket fence

There's a crazy old woman smashing bottles

On the sidewalk where her house burnt down two years ago

People say that back then she really wasn't that crazy...

Going over to Susan's house

Going over to Susan's house

She's gonna make it right

Down by the Donut Prince

A fifteen year old boy lies on the sidewalk

With a bullet in his forehead

In a final act of indignity

The paramedics take off all his clothes

For the whole world to see

While they put him in the bag

Meanwhile an old couple argues inside the Queen Bee

The sick fluorescent light shimmering on their skin

Going over to Susan's house

Going over to Susan's house

I can't be alone tonight

Take a left down Echo Park

A kid asks do I want some crack

TV sets are spewing Baywatch

Through the windows into black

Here comes a girl with long brown hair

Who can't be more than seventeen

She sucks on a red popsicle while she pushes a baby girl

In a pink carriage

And I'm thinking that must be her sister

That must be her sister, right?

They go into the 7-11

And I keep walking

Going over to Susan's house...

Live Like an Outlaw

Acrylic, September 2007

Cowboys take naps sometimes too.

Acrylic & ink washes, September 2007

My Six Favorite Cowboys

Acrylic on plexi glass, March 2007

All three of these pieces are a part of a western themed book I worked on for the entire fall semester of my sophomore year at MICA.