Mural at the Northwest Best Dispensary

I got the job of doing a mural in the Northwest Best Dispensary in the Embellish building. The only stipulation was that I incorporate their logo. So I made the logo the focal point of the painting.

First I scanned in their logo from the business card, and deleted everything but the logo.

Then I added it to the design that was to the scale of the wall, and put a grid onto it.

I transfered the drawig onto the wall and roughly spray-painted the purple background.

The I painted it with one color of green latex.

...and that was a wrap.

Street Sign Project- Tape Networks on King 5

I went down to the old Elks building yesterday to meet my friend Dan Martin from the Street Sign Project. He was planning on doing a huge duct tape installation, and asked if I would help out.

It was really fun to see the drab grey wall turn into this network of colors. It was also cool to here him explain his ideas. You can check it out tonight on King 5 at 5pm.

If you haven't already, you should check out the Street Sign Projects facebook page . They don't only highlight projects they're working on, but interesting street art from around the world. They also encourage everyone and anyone to participate. So go get some duct tape!

So I was clickin' over to the New Frontiers facebook page to write a short message saying "Give me my credit card back" when I noticed that their latest update said:


I thought to myself, Oh Damn! That's crazy!

My friend Geoff had given me all the Ulrich Schnauss music he had, and I loved it. He makes electronic music, that is very cinematic. It is a perfect soundtrack/background music for any type of activity I do, but I would religiously play it when I was riding my bike. Just cruisin' through the city observing the buildings, people, powerlines...while Ulrich scored the whole adventure from a small pod in my pocket.
I couldn't wait! I called Geoff and told him the news.
An excited "Nuh-Uh" was all he could say. I agreed it was unbelievable, but I assured him it was true.
We planned to meet there after he was done with band practice, and I was done with work. Work that is really hard to go to since I gave my two-weeks a couple days earlier.

I sped through my route, and made it home at an amazing 9:15. I threw on a different shirt and shoes, ate a medicinal cookie (my asthma was acting up) and headed down to the New Frontier to see what's up.

The first person I encounter there is Tim Kappler. Tim is a local artist that I run into from time to time. I like his artwork, and he's a fun person to hang out with. I ran into him at a bar once and we swapped sketchbook pages. I got this drawing out of the deal, and I was stoked.



We had a conversation about how we had both came without anything to draw on, or with for that matter, and it didn't take long before I ran out to my car/junk drawer and found a couple pens and some paper plates. Tim made these drawings...



The whole night was awesome.

Ulrich played an hypnotic one song set accompanied by a video of footage all shot from a car driving around. It was crazy because it was the same visuals I would have riding my bike around.

Filthy Rich

I was asked to be part of a "food" themed show at the Greenwood Collective in Seattle. I had an idea to make a sleazy rich dude, reminiscent of an old photo I saw a long time ago of Dave from Daves Steakhouse on broadway. In the photo, that one of his waitresses showed me, Dave was on a boat with his arm around two slutty looking chicks, clutching an 80's fake breast in each hand. The picture changed slightly from idea to sketch, but it kept the same general idea.

So first I sketched it out

Then I scaled it up on plywood.

I cut it out with a jigsaw, and sanded the edges.

I was finishing it the day of the show opening, so I didn't have time to execute the piece with the style that I usually use (covering it with black gesso and color pencil). I decided to just use the black gesso as line work, like an ink drawing.

I erased some of the pencil lines, and coated it in polyurethane.
Here he is partying in front of the Pantages.

So I got the job of making the Puget Sound Pizza (PSP) Daily Special board, and decided to pitch the idea of a giant cut out rat. Some of the employess thought that was a little too over the top, but when I brought the idea up with the owner Martin he was stoked. So I got busy with a pen and some PSP coffee.

I sketched the final design onto a piece of plywood during a demonstration on how to scale up your design, for the Tacoma Mural Program.

Then I cut it out with a jigsaw and sanded the edges.

I painted it with spray paint, blank and white Gesso, and color pencils. Painting the chalkboard part with chalkboard paint, and sealing the rest of it with spray on polyurethane.

True Grit-Plugworks Final

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Rake song by the Decemberists

These are five separate illustrations I did to illustrate the Rake Song by the Decemberist.

The song tells the story of a man that gets married only to have his wife start "spilling out babies". When his wife dies with the fourth child during birth, he is stuck with the three other "little pests". To free himself from this burden he murders all the remaining children. He kills the littlest girl by feeding her foxglove, the next he drowns in the bath, and the eldest son is beaten to death and his body burned.

In a later song on the album (Hazards of Love) the children starting hauntingly singing to their father.

Here are the lyrics:

I had entered into a marriage

In the summer of my twenty-first year

And the bells rang for our wedding

Only now do I remember it clear

Alright, alright, alright

No more a rake and no more a bachelor

I was wedded and it whetted my thirst

Until her womb start spilling out babies

Only then did I reckon my curse

Alright, alright, alright

Alright, alright, alright

First came Isaiah with his crinkled little fingers

Then came Charlotte and that wretched girl Dawn

Ugly Methanley died on delivery

Mercifully taking her mother along

Alright, alright, alright

What can one do when one is widower

Shamefully saddled with three little pests

All that I wanted was the freedom of a new life

So my burden I began to divest

Alright, alright, alright

Alright, alright, alright

Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove

Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath

Isaiah fought but was easily bested

Burned his body for incurring my wrath

Alright, alright, alright

And that's how I came your awful narrator

To be living so easy and free

Expect you think that I should be haunted

But it never really bothers me

Alright, alright, alright

Alright, alright, alright

Here is the actual song: