Paint & sketches for Friday 6/26/09

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Sketches for 6/23/09

A couple more sketches I drew over the last few days. Yep, more of these blob things. I like these lil guys individually, but they’ve been working really well when integrated into larger paintings I’m working on (that I still need to post). They get quite fun when they’re layered over one another and then drawn on top of again, etc.

Drawings 6/18/09

You may have noticed I haven’t been posting my sketch of the day every single day. It has been more like posting in spurts with a few drawings at a time. This is partly because I’ve been super busy and haven’t got much free time, another is that it this way seems to fit much better with the way I work. I don’t want to spam people by sending out self-promotional links to drawings everyday, that gets really annoying. Plus, I ten to work on multiple things at the same time, so posting a little scribble here or there probably won’t be as interesting as a series of drawings. I’ve also been working on some larger paintings that don’t really fit well on the scanner (however, I will take pics and post those).

The main idea with this project is to keep me motivated and engaged in the process, as well as giving anyone out there reading a little insight into the kind of things I like to do. So, while I’ll continue to draw & paint everyday, I will be keeping up this posting pattern for now, as it is just a little easier for me to maintain. I hope you’re still enjoying the work, and that you continue to visit. I’ve met a bunch or really great people doing this, and I hope to meet more, so please feel free to get in touch.

Sketchbook spread.

Detail

Detail

New Apps.

This week has been a pretty good week for new web apps. Tweet Deck updated their desktop app as well as releasing an excellent FREE iPhone app. It’s pretty stellar, and definitely my flavor of the week, but I still see myself bouncing back and forth between Tweet Deck, Destroy Twitter and Tweetie… For a little while anyway. Each app has its pro’s & cons. I think Tweetie is still my overall favorite, but I really like the groups, filtering and other updates from TweetDeck & Destroy Twitter. I really like how I can send links from Tweetie to Instapaper, and come across lots of great links thru Twitter and it’s very valuable to have a way to bookmark these easily. For me, saving links is huge and will most likely keep Tweetie at the top of my list for now.

Shaun Inman also released his Fever RSS reader app. Not suprisingly, it is very well made and has the same high level of quality as Mint (another of his apps), which I also use. The attention to detail in these apps as well as ease of use keep these on my list of favorite apps. Check them out if you’re not familiar with them.

Also, I’m trying out the new Opera Unite browser, and I am very impressed with it so far. I’m still playing around with the settings and all that fun stuff, but having the ability to host chatrooms, share files, photos and music directly from your desktop is just too cool for school. I’m still trying to sync my pages/apps and bookmarks between my home & work computers, but I haven’t quite got it all worked out yet. I thought the bookmarks sync’ed last night w/ Opera Link, but it didn’t seem to be working when I got to my work computer this morning. I’ll figure it out though, if I can get this to work properly, Opera will almost definitely become my main browser.

Last but not least, the iPhone 3.0 os was released today and so far, so good. The updates are really nice. I especially like the cut and paste feature. How this wasn’t included from day one, I have no idea but I’m glad it is finally here. I have an iPod touch so I won’t be able to use the text feature (but I believe AT&T doesn’t even support the damn thing yet… hello, didn’t you know this was coming? That’s just poor planning)

6/09/09 Sketch

Weekend Drawings

Hmm. The paper  of the drawings looks weird against the site background. Oh well.

Sketch for 6/5/09

Another little cluster of letters and stuff. I hope these sketches don’t seem like I’m just repeating myself over & over. Sometimes I feel like I do that alot, but really these are studies for a larger painting I’m working on. Plus, they’re just exercises to get the pen to paper and have some fun so I’m not concerned at all with it.

Paintings

These aren’t brand new paintings, but I just got these back from a gallery recently where I was part of a show, and I realized I didn’t have any good images of the artwork, so I scanned them in this morning.

Weekend Drawings

I’m just now getting back into the swing of things after a nice relaxing weekend away with my wife for our anniversary.  I’ve got some drawings of the usual type  of stuff… monsters and clusters of scribbles, etc. It was great to throw some ink around after a few days away from the studio.

Drawings for Friday 529

It’s been a pretty hectic week… I’ve had a wikked cold all week and I kept wondering it it was the piggy flu or not. I’m still going strong, so I guess not. In honor of not kicking the bucket due to swine flu, Ive got 2 sketches to post today. Yesterday’s sketch, which is one of my lil cluster things, and another for Metal Friday. If you don’t know what Metal Friday yet, I encourage you to check the link and listen to sweet metal.

In other news, I’m off to Foxwoods Casino with my beautiful wife to celebrate our anniversary, so I doubt I’ll have time to do any sketches this weekend, but I’ll make up for it by doing a pile of em when I return.

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