kaybu

What kind of husband would I be if I did not do a post about my wife's new venture. Meg has been working on hand made handbags for over a year now, often working late into the night. Each one is designed by her and screen printed by hand with her own drawings. She has worked very hard and I'm sure when you see (buy) them you'll agree that they are amazing. She has also created headbands that she screen printed as well.

Not only beautiful but talented and hard working too. Check out her shop at www.kaybu/etsy.com

Most Used Asset

I have a lot of places I look for reference: Goggle images, old photos, Japanese prints, classic paintings, even video sometimes. Most of the time though my best option for getting what I want from my rough sketches to more finished ones is the 10 sec timer on my camera and a nice tripod. Sometimes it can be humorous other times I look at all the pictures of my self in my iphoto library and it just seems strange.

Not so Haiku and Cancer

Round Online is a great online collaborative magazine that focuses on a particular topic or art form per issue. I had the opportunity to do an illustration for a very sad a poem titled, After Dave's Body Turned on Itself, (that is not a haiku) by Marcella Hammer about cancer for the new Haiku issue.


Like many my wife and I have suffered loss because of cancer. Over the last few years we have been blessed to help support the fight against it. Please consider purchasing the original framed artwork. My wife and I will donate all the proceeds to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Click here to purchase the artwork.
Thank you for your help.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Color studies have become a very important part of my process. I often do three or four and then going to final do something else entirely. The most important thing isn’t that my colors are all planned out when starting a final but that I’ve played around with color and have put my self in a painting mindset. Sometimes I just have to get the bad color ideas out of the way too.



Here is how the final turned out. Merry Christmas and Happy NewYear.

Late Influence

Over the past few years I've become intrigued with Japanese watercolors and prints. It started with a picture book by illustrator Anno Mitsumasa called The Tale of the Heike and has grown into a small collection of books about Japanese art. What attracts me most is the purposeful use of red and the incredible line quality. Kamata's Plum Garden and Plum Estate are two of my favorite recent discoveries.