Recent Work
Art is one of those things best seen in real-life. But for those of y'alls not lucky enough to be conveniently located in the 253, here's a look at what you're missing!
- City Nights
- Poster, 11 x 17
- September 2009
- Mixed media: pencil, and marker
- The night, the urban jungle, the maze of alleys and streets. Maybe being a city boy won't be beneficial after the apocalypse, but hey. I enjoy my urban surroundings.
- Untitled sketch
- 8-1/2 x 11
- September 2009
- A little pencil sketch
- A study for a poster I'm designing... I think I'll add a new section for sketches and such to the Works category...
- Egyptian
- Poster, 11 x 17
- August 2009
- Mixed media: pencil, and marker
- I think I've been digging the whole Egypt thing too much lately. But it sure is fun!
- Scarab
- Poster, 11 x 17
- August 2009
- Mixed media: pencil, and marker
- Have you ever read the Prometha series by Alan Moore? If not, you really, really need to.
- She's so Heavy
- Poster, 11 x 17
- January 2009
- Mixed media: pencil, and marker
- The building is the Tacoma Financial Center... so I was inspired by both the crushing weight of the federal bank bailouts and by the Beatles song of similar name. At that time I had been listening to Abbey Road compulsively.
- Building
- Poster, 11 x 17
- November 2008
- Mixed media: pencil, and marker
- Based off of an empty condo tower that I happen to like.
- UV
- Poster, 11 x 17
- April 2009
- Mixed media: pencil, and marker
- UV... ultra violet or those output gauges on old timey radios?
- SYSTEM
- Poster, 11 x 17
- December 2008
- Mixed media: pencil, and marker
- In a system, all parts are just as important as any other. Cold, hard and yet obviously the work of organic life. I love the juxtaposition.
- Sow the seeds
- Poster, 11 x 17
- February 2009
- Mixed media: pencil, and marker
- I had been listening to the band Tears for Fears. Can you tell?
- Fuel Injection
- Poster, 11 x 17
- September 2008
- Mixed media: pencil, and marker
- That benzene ring you see behind the syringe is napthalene... a chemical naturally occuring in gasoline. Hence the name "Fuel Injection"
- Chernobyl
- Poster, 11 x 17
- January 2009
- Mixed media: pencil, and marker
- I am well aware that the real Chernobyl looks nothing like this.
- Je Suis Mort
- Poster, 11 x 17
- October 2008
- Mixed media: pencil, and marker
- Just repair the darn bridge....
- Seven Faces
- Poster, 11 x 17
- February 2009
- Mixed media: pencil, and marker
- Don't ask me how, but I got inspired for this by an Enigma song.
- Phantom
- Poster, 11 x 17
- February 2009
- Marker and Ink
- I did this after studying C. Aubrey Beardsley. Can you tell?
- Wisdom Orange
- Poster, 11 x 17
- March 2009
- Marker, pencil and Ink
- The first in my exciting Virtuous Fruit series.
- Carbon Footprint
- Poster, 11 x 17
- March 2009
- Marker and Ink
- Inspired after a conversation with an asphalt tanker driver.
- Mushrooms
- Poster, 11 x 17
- January 2009
- Marker, pencil and Ink
- The tex does say "mushrooms"... in Tengwar script. If anything, it proves I'm not so secretly a big nerd.
- Hand
- Poster, 11 x 17
- December 2008
- Marker and Ink
- This WILL accompany something a little more 3-D...
- Farmers' Market
- Poster, 11 x 17
- Janurary 2009
- Marker, pencil and Ink
- I put this in for the 2009 Tacoma Farmers' Market poster contest... the fools didn't choose it! When will Man learn the errors of his ways?
- Trinity
- Poster, 11 x 17
- December 2008
- Marker, pencil and Ink
- Forget the other celestail bodies. Without this Trinity, we would not be here.
- Papillon
- Poster, 11 x 17
- October 2008
- Marker, pencil and Ink
- The first of many posters to be stylistically influenced by the work of Alphonse Mucha.
- Guru Deva
- Poster, 11 x 17
- November, 2008
- Mixed media: pencil, marker and photo
- We can sell you a copy, just email Thorax O'Tool
- Moira
- Poster, 11 x 17
- September, 2008
- Mixed media: ink and marker
- Submitted to, but did not selected to be the poster for the 2008 Tacoma Film Festival.
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