True Grit "Garden City" Process

May True Grit
"Garden City"
for City Arts Magazine
by Jeremy Gregory

The characters are based on Geoff Weeg...

... and James (a guy I used to carpool with back in college)

Playing the Fool-Process

I decided to make this drawing I had into a painting. I started by spray painting this gradient onto the panel.

Then I drew a sketch that was to scale on brown paper, and cut it out. I used this cut out for placement on the panel, and to trace the silhouette.

I fill the silhouette with black gesso, and begin to color in the characters.

The girl character didn't look like the right girl character so I redid her,
and started on the background.

Polished it up, and called it done.
"Playing the Fool"

"Playing the Fool"
Based on the age old story of reuniting with an X-girlfriend. The lightning represents the turmoil in the past, and being under the bridge represents the feeling of hiding from all the people you told this would never happen. The title "Playing the Fool" comes from the question of what each persons motives are. It depends what angle you see it from, who the fool is.
I still can't figure it out.

King 5 news was at my house

Meg Coyle from King 5 News came to my house, with her cameraman, to interview me about the cities "Spaceworks" program.
To watch the story click on the link at the end of this post.

After they were done interviewing me I told the news team that one of my roommates were out of town, and how my other roommate was saying that the first roommate was going to be bummed because she didn't get to clean the house before TV cameras came in. Meg Coyle said "What does she think I'm going to do? The white glove dust test?"

The funny part was that, that was exactly what me and my roommate were joking about the night before.

Before they left they let me direct them in this photo for my traveling roommate. They were both really cool, and my roommate was freaked out when she returned home, and I showed her this...

To watch the story follow this link
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Spaceworks-Tacoma-89056927.html

It's a small world...

My friend Jeff works at a metal recycle plant on the tideflats. He picture messaged me this picture of a sign that I had put a sticker on three years prior.

Some tweekers had brought it in, and he had recognized the biter. It's a small tweeker filled world.

Two Pencils (white & slate blue) on black paper

I had to do some small drawings for a show at the greenwood collective a few months back. I didn't really have a theme, so I made the materials the theme by using only a white and slate blue pencil.With no preliminary sketches or ideas this is what happened...

When I visited New York a couple of years ago,
I noticed these postings all around
the construction sites.

So I created this image of "Bill"
to turn into a sticker to post
above the posting.

Well I never got around to getting it printed
while I was there. So when I got home, instead of forgetting
the whole plan,
I quickly made myspace friends with a band
called "Post No Bills", and posted my Bill.

I felt a little better, and at least it didn't go to waste.