How I Spent My Day

Did you know that I like internet memes?  I do.
Did you know that I like art history and painting?  I do.

I decided to paint a mashup of the two.  Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you

"Nyan Gogh"

I hope this piece will brighten the internet for many.
Work-in-progress pictures after the jump
(this is art in progress after all)

Dino Hunt! - With MNZero

I got together with this group called MNZero —which is something of a minnesota-based rendition of the immersive, real-life art-game called SFZero— to play a game dreamed up by my friend Kate Saturday called "Dino Hunt". 


In this game,

"Tribes of prehistoric vegetarians hunt dinosaur puppets with wiffleball spears, while trying to avoid the predations of ptreacherous pterodactyls. With each meatless kill, they claim a new dish for their vegetarian picnic."

It was a lot of fun.

Each dinosaur had a number of hit points, which represented the number of times it could be hit by the wiffleballs tossed at it by the tribe of vicious vegans.  When the dinosaur is killed, it dies dramatically and offers up its bloody, yet still somehow humane, bounty.

Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy - July 7

I attended a comics jam session with the International Cartoonist Conspiracy in Minneapolis.
This comic is dedicated one of our members, Ted, who is leaving for Omaha.  This guy is a big fan of My Little Pony (aren't we all?) and a great person.  We all collaborated here, but I drew a bunch of these panels.  So what are you waiting for?  Click the link and download the 20 page comics jam!

Click here to read the magical adventure! (PDF)

Perpich Horror Movie (Spring-Summer 2009)

Well it took me 2 years to get around to it but I FINALLY put Secret Places: A School Divided up on the internet for all to see!

Created Spring-Summer 2009

In my senior year of high school at the Perpich Center for Arts education I applied for and was awarded a $100 grant to create a horror movie set at the Arts High School.

MCAD Life Drawing June 20

Today at MCAD we had a male model for the first time.

Double-ended Brush-tip Pen

Pencil, 60% gray marker, 90% gray marker

Pencil, 60% gray marker, 90% gray marker, bic pen

Pencil, wet charcoal pencil, 60% gray marker, 90% gray marker, Bic pen

Wet charcoal pencil, pencil, double-ended brush tip pen, gray chalk pencil, black marker, 60% gray marker, Bic pen, sanguine chalk, sepia chalk

I met a friendly guy with a big red beard who studied jazz in the same neighborhood of New York that I studied film in, and he kept talking to me.  At the end a girl with buzz cut came over and said my last drawing was "classy." I love this co-op.

Saint Paul Cartoonist Conspiracy Jam June 16

Last week I went down to a meeting w/the Saint Paul Cartoonist Conspiracy. We did a comics jam, kind of like an Exquisite Corpse, but different. 

WARNING: this thing is not remotely safe for work.

Open publication - Free publishing - More cartoonist

How to Cook a Story with Thomas "Bake-a-chef-ski"

I created a comic to submit to the cookbook-themed comic anthology "Just Add Ink" created by Altered Esthetics and the International Cartoonist Conspiracy.  It's a two-pager, but I'm presenting it here in the form of 8 4-panel strips, just because I can.

MCAD Life Drawing June 13

To be honest, this session was kind of mediocre.  I felt really bored, like I'd used up all my clever tricks the day before.

Figure Drawing June 12

I attended another of the life-drawing co-ops at MCAD today.  Here is my work:

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Always Bringing, Always Taking Away - Onboard the Mississippi Megalops

So I spent the last few months working with Kate Saturday and Olli Johnson (as well as the musicians Erik Ostrom and Brian Rowe) on an experimental puppet show called "Always Bringing, Always Taking Away"

"Always Bringing, Always Taking Away" is a 15-20 minute long puppet show about the river ecosystem. The puppets are abstractions of animals, people, and machines made entirely out of ribbon. The show was designed to be performed on a paddleboat called the Jonathan Padelford as part of the "Mississippi Megalops - a Floating Chatauqua" project created by the arts organization "Works Progress" for the "Northern Spark" art festival in Saint Paul, MN, which was organized by Northern Lights.

The boat trip was very fun.  I invited my family and my friend Spencer Riedel to come along for the ride.

Watch the video of our performance onboard the megalops here:



After the stress of prepping for the show on the boat we're taking a break. But I bet there's more to come from this show in the near future. Stay Tuned