LOVESICK show pictures!

Fantagraphics have uploaded their photos for the Bureau of Drawers LOVESICK show and it was a swell time! Great turnout and beautiful art:

The Bureau of Drawers presents Lovesick at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, Feb. 12, 2011

New works and 2 Valentine's Day inspired art shows

The Bureau of Drawers will have two Valentine's Day inspired art shows next week! First, there will be a show on February 10th at the Cafe Racer, called "Like/Like". From 6-9PM.

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Next on February 12th at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery will feature the Bureau of Drawers' “Lovesick” show for the 3rd annual Georgetown Art Attack in Seattle (from 6-9PM). Below is my new painting for the group show! I am looking into making prints of both works and have them available for the show. I'll keep you updated on this blog!

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Empty Bowls

I hang out with a group of talented artists called the Bureau of Drawers. It's a Seattle based drawing group that hang out at a local watering hole called the Cafe Racer. Recently we all help paint unfired clay bowls for the Seattle chapter of Empty Bowls. Here's their mission statement:

Potters and other craftspeople, educators and others work with the community to create handcrafted bowls. Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread. In exchange for a cash donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The money raised is donated to an organization working to end hunger and food insecurity.

Below are two of the bowls I painted. Check out their Facebook page for more photos! Empty Bowls will be holding an auction of the bowls on February 27th at the Ballard Community Center.

New painting - Smokey the Cockatiel

I recently painted a small illustration for an upcoming Bureau f Drawers Valentine's Day art show at the Cafe Racer on February 12th. The theme is "Like/Like" so I chose a pet from when I was a child that was given to me for my 5th birthday, a cockatiel I named Smokey. I adored that bird! I miss him and here he is depicted in bird paradise:

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Goauche and watercolor on watercolor paper

A Bureau of Drawers portrait

I hang out with a talented group of people here in Seattle, WA called the Bureau of Drawers. We are all drawing portraits of one another and I happened to illustrate the illustrious Jonathan Morris, aka Calamity Jon.

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Bureau of Drawers Box Set

The group I hang out with, The Bureau of Drawers, will debuting a box of minis by it's members at Bumbershoot. The box will be silkscreened on boxes that resembled Happy Meal boxes, illustrated by yours truly. Below is a sneak peek of the box drawings: