Fools' Gold / Painted Gold

cotton candy magic wand pin! I made a super-limited set of these hard enamel pins that will be available at SPX on 9/19!

A little Peruvian spice gourd I have hanging in my kitchen.  A woven net goes through the holes and inside it you put spices and aromatic things to keep the room smelling nice!

LOOT bags 2014! Now on black cotton AND with a gold variant! available this weekend at SPX

What brand of gouache do you use? Have you tried using student-grade gouache, particularly Lefranc & Bourgeois Fine Gouache? I am always told to stay away from student grades, but I was also told that if they worked for me (color-wise), I should be fine. I am worried about "permanency", or that my gouache paintings will break down in the future.

I enjoy Winsor & Newton a lot. I've never used Lefranc & Bourgeois before, but I used Daler Rowney throughout school. (Is that considered student grade? I don't know. I still use it occasionally and I like them ok, but oh man, their yellow ochre! what happened? s'not good.) About the worst thing I've experienced with "lower-quality" gouache is that there will be more variation in how the paint dries, so that you'll get some colors that dry with an annoying semi-gloss for some reason. But my older paintings done in said "lower-quality" gouache are still holding up just fine! I think you should be good so long as you mix (mix (MIX!)) your colors, look for a nice even consistency in the pigment of your paints, and be mindful about storage. That way, your works should last you a good while!

Good luck!

kaiju!

My boyfriend Jimmy and I (much more rarely on my part) collect kaiju figures, and as you can see, we have a good amount (though not compared to the hard core collectors). So, since I see these every time I enter my door, and because they're really a lot of fun and have some wild designs, I decided to do a little painting of Kittyfire. She's one of the few female giant monsters and you can see her there in the right corner of the photo. So many of them have such awesome color variations and this figure has one of my favorites: red-orange on a glow-in-the-dark base. Very nice.

Next I definitely want to paint some Hedorahs once I clear my plate a little! And Agasukeron! Heck yes.

Wow! You're work is so good! I really like it. Ho do you get such great digital images of your stuff? So good!

Thanks so much! I scan things at really high res and then adjust the levels in photoshop to match the originals as best I can. It can be a obsessive task!

This is my piece for the Silver Screen Society's February exhibition honoring the very funny podcast "How Did This Get Made?" Artists chose one of several bad movies reviewed on the podcast by Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael (who can make the word "disgusting" the funniest thing I've heard) and my choice, if it's not obvious, was Batman & Robin.

My little brother and I have seen this movie too many times, and it is oh so silly, and we love it. There are enough nipples sculpted into costumes that I figured I'd give everyone a chance to show theirs off. And revisiting those costumes...boy are they dumb. Mr. Freeze's get-up is one of the most convoluted, stupid things I've ever had to draw. So this was tons of fun.

Check out all the great work on Silver Screen Society's online gallery here, including Jimmy Giegerich's excellent Cool As Ice piece (which got him followed BY Vanilla Ice on Twitter! A very rad outcome). And, if you haven't already heard "How Did This Get Made?", correct that error here. You'll be better for it.

Thanks to the guys at Silver Screen for inviting me to take part!

Damn Fine Coffee! A Twin Peaks fan zine - Kickstarter!

Hey all! My Twin Peaks-themed anthology zine "Damn Fine Coffee!" just launched its funding project on Kickstarter! This is your chance to place pre-orders on the zine and also to snatch up screen prints, original drawings, AND paintings of Twin Peaks characters. If you're excited about the book, I hope you can contribute and help make it happen, or just take a minute to spread the word! Every little bit helps and I'm super thankful for whatever you can do or give. Seriously. 

You can read more about the zine and see a few fantastic pieces by some of its fantastic contributors here. 

Visit the Kickstarter project and claim a copy of the zine (which has free shipping for a limited time!) right here!

After all, in the words of Agent Cooper himself:

Here’s my latest illustration for The New Yorker Bar Tab column about Soju Haus in Koreatown (a place I have to visit). Thanks to AD Deanna Donegan. You can read the article online here.

This is one of my rejected sketches for how to go about drawing Edward.  It didn't make the cut, but I just love looking at it!  It's hilarious to me.