Camera Icon

Made a camera icon styled after the Iconic Canon AE-1 SLR.
png version attached to swipe.

Obi Pink Kenobi

Started doing a drawing of Obi Wan Kenobi for a CH header but didn't turn out how I wanted so I'm posting it here so I didn't do the illustration for nothing.

Easter Egg Drawings

I was charged with filling and hiding this years easter eggs for the annual hunt. The eggs are normally filled with coins or candy but I got tired of stuffing nickels and dimes and decided to insert themed drawings into the eggs. Here are a few of my favorites that survived the hunt. Needless to say, my cousins were not pleased. 

Me + Lauen Being Sketchy

And some roller skates too. 

Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau line drawing. 

Not Abe Lincoln.

Hair Color

Facebook Timeline Photo

With only a few hours before the mandatory timeline changeover we still didn't have any great ideas for our CollegeHumor cover photo. After a couple of rounds I mentioned how I saw it as a window and like lightening Marina our social media duchess had a flash of inspiration that we should all press our faces to the glass. After searching for a piece large enough, surprisingly difficult in the IAC building, we ended up using the glass fire escape door. The cover photo is a combination of five shots stitched together into one. I was skeptical that it was going to work but ignoring many lighting errors I think it turned out OK.  Someone is in there twice but I'm not telling who.

Virginia Beach

Stop motion animation of the waves coming in at Virginia Beach. Ebb and flow.

Chompers

Pearly blue teeth.

Moon and Venus

The moon and Venus bisected by an airplane at the end of a beautiful blue gradient.

Martian Clouds

Stone Tower

Here's another watercolor from the archives. This one is from 2003. I used to be am obsessed with castles and stone buildings. I could sit for hours painting individual stones on a facade. This was one of my favorites from my castle phase.

Apple Dots

Found this gem stuck between the pages of an old sketchbook. They're apple color studies from LCD class way back when.

Shoebox Series: Flowers and Bottles

I dug these bottles up in my backyard a while ago and shot them on an overcast day with velvia film that I developed cross process. They're old anheuser busch and coke bottles that make nice vases for a flower or two. I have no idea what flowers these are I just plucked them from the backyard. 

 

 

Vintage Window Liquor Cabinet

Over the weekend Dustin and I built two liquor cabinets using old basement windows as the doors. Assembly was pretty easy, taking an evening to cut, drill, paint and assemble.

 Wood Frame

 Adding the shelves

 Thanks Ali for painting

 Detail of doorhandle

Final product!
I think the plan is to make more of these and sell them on etsy, not sure for how much yet.

Airport Change Collector

Did another illustration for Streeter's blog of one of his Extremely Brilliant Ideas.

"Who hates change? Not the kind that got Obama elected, the kind that jingles around in your pocket. You know, filthy, metal money. I hate change in my regular life but I really hate it when I fly. I have to take it out, put it in the bin, send it through the xray machine and finally scrape it all back up and return it to my pocket, where it will stay until it falls out in my seat. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just ditch the change before you got through security?

Well how about this? We install little Ronald McDonald House-style donation bins to the xray machine table. Dump your change in before you go through the metal detector and never see it again! “But I can just leave the change in the bin,” you retort. True, but as the DailyWhat informed us, the TSA just steals your change if you do that. And I have no interest in helping the TSA any more than my taxes already do.

So why not this? I bet we could collect a few million dollars in the first few months. Maybe more. And it would all go to…I don’t know. The Red Cross, maybe? We’ll figure that out later. The important thing is that we’d have a way to get rid of loose change, help some to-be-determined people and cut off the TSA’s free-money faucet. You may take our dignity, TSA, but you will never take our quarters!"

-Streeter Seidell

Ariana

Teef.

 

 Mouth agape, white teeth illustrated. 

Split Fountain

Did some screen printing yesterday for a friend at work. He wanted to make a shirt out of this stencil he saw on a wall. 

 Carefully cut it out of contact paper and applied it to my dirty, hazy screen.

Lots of careful peeling.  

Mixing the two colors to create a gradient.  

My dirty, hazy screen.

 

Moar mixin 

And presto! We have a shirt. I hope it makes a great gift.

Test print on an envelope  

 

Careful documentation provided by James Solomon.

Color Parking Field

Poster Study

 

Screen Print, Watercolor or Collage? Stay tuned.

Color-aid could be fun...

Lia, Karen, and the Irish Hunger Memorial