There are 3 large potted plants, across from the coffee shop, at work. I started drawing them and they kinda morphed into 3 trolls gossiping, which by the way, is not too far from the truth at my job. I left it blank, so color away!
Dowloadable PDF: trollcoloringpage
I was drawing at work again, this time I sketched a valentine. I was going to use it for Jeremy but I thought of a better design. Of course I can’t post that one until after Valentine’s Day, I don’t want him to see.
At the request of my sister-in-law Bonny, here’s fairy cat. Modeled after our cat Lily. She’s a typical cat, totally weird, she meows at things I can’t see, stares for hours at walls and dark corners, and sometimes just stares at me and purrs, like this morning. A little creepy, a little strange, but like I said very catty. Every cat I meet is the weirdest cat I’ve met.
Download PDF here: fairycatcoloringpage
Bonny mentioned that she wanted me to draw her a cat with fairy wings about a month ago and to be honest I forgot all about it until this morning with Lily. I hope you have as much fun coloring it as I did.
It’s my submission to Draw a Dinosaur Day.
Downloadable PDF: ankylosauruscoloringpage
I’m going to color it myself before I submit it to the Dinosaur Day page.
Have fun coloring!!!
Download this beautiful and FREE!!! PDF of mythical creatures, and color it in. I would love to see how they turn out when you’re done. Scan them in and post them in the comments section so that I can print them, to hang on my fridge 
Download PDF here:mythicalcreaturecoloringpage
Clockwise from left to right: Bugbear, Pushmi-pullyu, Centaur, Jackalope, Griffin, Chimera, Dragon, Fairies, Gnome, and Mermaid.
It’s smooth ride on choppy blue waves, like Dr Dolittle.
I did the pencil and ink while I was working today. In between soy chai lattes and iced mocha frappuccinos, I hid behind the flavored syrup sign and drew. I felt like a teenager, goofing off at work, it’s crappy work though and it wasn’t like I was neglecting anyone. I waited on everyone and cleaned up after myself, it actually made my day go quicker and nicer. I’m sure the higher ups would frown upon it but I don’t particularly care, anything that keeps me distracted while I’m there is good for me. When I got home I hurried to color it, so fun.
A few months ago I went toThe Contemporary in Atlanta and had a critique with the curator Stuart Horodner. The linked article/story is wonderful by the way, some perspective on his personality as well. He’s a very kind yet honest person, someone I hope to get to know better before I leave Atlanta. I didn’t realize the full extent of how much I missed being critiqued until I went. That’s not saying that I wanted someone to lick my butt and tell me I was wonderful. I wanted someone to tell me the truth and that’s what I got.
I took a disk with some files from college and then some of the cellular self portrait series that I had been working on.
I was super excited, schweaty and nervous. He walked in the room and asked me “So what do you want out of this?” I said “I want a critique” I suppose he gets more than a few people wanting career advice and questions like “Should I go to grad shool?” Which, how can you really answer that question for someone? He said “ok” and looked at my images and told me after some hmms. and some clicking back and forth between, that my cellular series was “cold”. I agreed. It was cold, compared to the other stuff I had done.
Let me clear something up, because it’s something that’s been bothering me. I have a problem with being an artist. I don’t feel like I’m serious enough. I told Stuart that. I told him the cellular series was my attempt at formalism, because I would be taken more seriously. He looked at me like I was crazy and basically said bullshit. He told me to paint what I loved, do what I wanted, be true to what I did, and I would be taken seriously. Which is obvious but not obvious in the world of art crap. If you’ve never seen Art School Confidential, it will give you a funny/sad perspective. OMGWTFTRIANGLES!!! John Malkovitch is an art professor stuck forever on the profundity of triangles. Pure formalism which can be forever discussed and analyzed from every possible direction but is devoid of any real content or meaning.
So anyway, I took my info. home and sat on it. I thought about how I could improve on the cellular self portrait series, I didn’t want to throw it to the side and forget about it. It had good bones. Finally I figured it out. Add animals. They’ll add the story, and that’s really what I’m interested in. I like looking at a painting and seeing a story. I really don’t want to listen to some stuck up asshat in a scarf and t-shirt expound on something that’s not even visually interesting to begin with. So:
Thanks Stuart!
I have a new venture in blogging with Jeremy. We decided I would illustrate his blog and maybe add some content of my own from time to time. My first post is about my phylomania over Phylomon!!! I know some artists that could create some pretty sweet Phylomons. *Hint Hint*
My fiance Jeremy wanted a new banner for his blog.
The two previous banners I made for him, were based on his biomes posts. This new one is of creatures from the Galapagos Islands. They are from left to right: Galapagos Penguin, Sally Lightfoot Crab, Galapagos Sea Lion, Darwin’s Finch, and Galapagos Tortoise.
