Sketchbook: I Miss Oklahoma, ink on paper, February 2009. Click image to see full-size.
Ryan Peck interviewed me last week for the OVAC blog, and here it is.
I mentioned to him that if I could go back in time ten years or so, and talk to myself when I was mid-way through art school, I would say: ignore the fear. Or alternately, feel the fear and do it anyway. Do not let fear keep you from doing or making anything. I'm telling myself that on a daily basis now. Hope it sinks in.
Cover illustration for Friskee Trax 4 compilation from Friskee Media. Ink on found paper, 2009. Click image to view larger.
My friend Josh Heilaman of Friskee Media commissioned this cover for the Friskee Trax Compilation vol. 4. Head on over to the Friskee site to sample the tasty beats buffet.
The original drawing is about 5 inches square, a marker drawing on an old map.
Alison Bechdel is the creator of the comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For. Her recent book, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, is a frank and tender deconstruction of her childhood and adolescence. It's never easy to understand one's parents from an adult perspective, and Bechdel uses Fun Home to explore her father's identity through fresh eyes.
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Ilsa Reclined, from Dr. Sketchy's OKC, January 2009, ink sketch by Sarah Atlee.
Thanks to Marylin, Ashley, and everyone who attended or helped to organize the first Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School session in Oklahoma City.
Ilsa in a beach hat, from Dr. Sketchy's OKC, January 2009, ink sketch.
And thank you to the lovely Ilsa The Wolf for working so hard and making it look easy.
Ilsa in profile, from Dr. Sketchy's OKC, January 2009, ink sketch on cardboard.
Can't wait for February!
Water: Wavelets, ink on 3x5 index card, 2009. Click image to see full-size.
I've uploaded a new set of sketches to Flickr: Eight ways of looking at water. Each drawing is made with a Pigma Micron #1 pen on a 3x5 index card. I love index cards.