hey y’all, once again it’s been a million years since i have posted in this blog. BUT i’m hoping you’ll forgive me since i have a lot of great stuff to show you/tell you about.

first off, i submitted 5 pieces to a juried show at off the wall gallery, and two of my pieces were accepted! the show opens thursday december 11 at 7 pm. off the wall gallery (also known as dirty franks) is located at 13th and pine streets. i hope to see you at the opening, if you’re able to make it! here’s the poster for the show:

my friend and former classmate karen hagen also had two pieces get in to the show. i’m excited to see her and to see her work.

these are the two pieces of mine that were accepted:

this is an older piece. it was actually the first piece i did digitally while in school. even though it’s a couple years old, it is still one of my favorite pieces and i’m really grateful that it is receiving some recognition.

this image is from a flier i did over the summer for my friend’s band the hermit thrushes. i’m glad that this piece holds up so well without type, and i’m also very excited that they chose to include it on the flier for the show!

so anyway, i hope you get a chance to take a look at the show even if you don’t make it out to the opening. i’m really looking forward to it.

in other news, i just finished a flier for the local band controlled storms. this was my first time working with them and it was really fun. my roommate modeled for the piece.
here it is:

apart from the show and the new flier, the 7 inch that i did for dragonzord is getting printed soon. i think it’s gonna be awesome to hold a physical thing in my hand with my art on it since most of the time it doesn’t leave the computer screen. so i’ll keep y’all posted on that.

life is good right now. i am drawing a lot and feeling very inspired. i even did a little design work for the restaurant where i work, which was fun. there are a few other things i’m working on that i could post, but i think i’m gonna hold off on posting them until they’re finished. it has been a very encouraging and positive month for me. a couple weeks back i went to a comic book panel at the free library where charles burns, jessica abel, chipp kidd, and art spiegelman spoke. actually there was one other speaker, but i’m afraid i forgot his name! his work was cool, too. i’ll have to ask my roommate. anyway, art spiegelman’s maus is one of my all time favorite comic books, so hearing him speak was incredible. i got my book signed and i got to tell him that he changed my life with his work, which was really wonderful.

i loved that he smoked on stage at the library! i think it says something about how awesome you are if an institution such as the free library of philadelphia will allow you to smoke when you grace their stage, but maybe i’m just biased since i myself am a smoker. regardless, it was amazing to get to shake his hand, and i will treasure my copy of maus even more now that it is signed.

today i got a call from my friend yianni of hermit thrushes, and he asked me to play the clarinet with him in a band called folklore for a show they’re playing in january. i’ll give more details about the show as they are made available to me, but for now i just want to say that i’m really really stoked! i almost went to school for clarinet performance and only decided to go to art school instead at the last minute, but i never stopped loving music. in fact, i’ve really missed playing the clarinet and i’ve been wishing i had people to play with again. this should be really fun, and like i said, i’ll let you know details on the show as it gets closer to that date.

well i think that’s all i’ve got for now. expect to see some new drawings and things from me in the not too distant future.