Kurt Makes an Appearance

...at the San Diego Comic-Con that is.


pencil and water soluble graphite on nice hot press watercolor paper.
10"x14"

here's a detail...

This year Scott Morse will be selling a limited edition print set to promote our next book The Ancient Book of Sex and Science. (Scott Morse, Lou Romano, Nate Wragg, and myself) That book won't be for sale until next year's con so we put together a nice set of 8x10 prints. More on that soon!

I won't be at this year's con (I'll be in Tahoe with my lovely wife and adorable new daughter celbrating our 2 year anniversary!) but besides the print set I decided to do some drawings and give them to Scott to peddle at his table. (he doesn't even know this yet ;-D hehe) I haven't settled on price yet, but it'll be something CHEAP like $40 or $50!

Here's the first, warts and all. Let's see how many I can do by monday... seriously i'm so busy, this might be the only one haha!
It's a Kurt jam. Start in one corner and draw!
I've been obsessively playing this dice game on my iPhone so it looks like Kurt is getting some of the action too.

10 Shapes

For the time being this painting is digital.
That could change at any time without notice.

Kurts

Random Scrap

here's this.

Frilly Doodle

Well, I'm back at work now and I'm trying to clear off my desk. I came across this frilly doodle I did in a meeting. Sometimes I just draw what people say and in this case someone was talking about schedule dates.

New Fine Art Project!

Here's my latest work of fine art. It was my first collaboration with my wife. Technically I just supplied half the designs while she did the other half and all the construction work. I think the project turned out great! We call her Chloé.

Fred's Pad

here's something else I found while digging through some pages of stuff...

Pillarockillalar

Here's a few random nuggets I came across today.

Stanish Blocks

Y1 at the M Modern

I was fortunate to get an opportunity to be in a cool gallery show of abstract artwork at the M Modern Gallery in Palm Springs. The show is called Abstraction Distraction and it has many great artists involved including Glenn Barr, Chris Reccardi, Lynne Naylor, Tim Biskup and more! The show opens this Saturday, Feb 16th.
This is my entry including a detail and the original thumbnail sketch.

Y1
16" x 20"
Acrylics on Canvas

A Band of Bugs Part II

My other two pieces for the "A Band of Bugs" show at Gallery Nucleus.
see the link to the right for info about the show.




the top one is in Gouache 5"x7"
the bottom one is in Acrylic 5"x7"

Animation Loves Character Design

Red O
gouache on board

Geometry Cage

Sex Tower

sex and science

A Band of Bugs

Here are two of my pieces for the "A Band of Bugs" show at Gallery Nucleus.



The show is February 9th, 2008 - March 3, 2008
There are some great artists involved.
Check out Gallery Nucleus' A Band of Bugs page for more info including some images and links to the artist's blogs.

my pieces are 5"x7"
Gouache on Illustration Board

shank pile Touch - (NERD ALERT)

Make a Webclip of Shank Pile on your iPhone or iPod Touch and you'll get this "snazzy" icon.
wooot!

Blue Particles

Fiyne Ahrte

Recipe:

Step 1. Turn off brain
Step 2. Paint shapes
Step 3. Season to taste
Step 4. The end





These quickie brain farts were done with Painter X

Abstract Sketches

Another meeting, another page of doodles.

Unfinished Woman

I don't normally paint with Photoshop but I was messing around with it. I decided to try painting with just the default round hard edge brush.

Kurt Gets Dirty

Kurt leads a pretty filthy life and one of his antics slipped into this page of sketches. Whoops.
Clicking makes it larger.

Reacting to Love

Time to split

Getting My Ball Rolling Again

"Never underestimate your audience's need for more of the same."
- Paul Rudish
Therefore... a page of random Kurt doodles from a meeting.

Happy Birthday to Blog...

It's Shank Pile's 2nd birthday!

That's right, it's been 2 years and believe it or not I'm still here.
Things have been busy at work and home life and all my free time has been spent on some personal projects that are in the works. Right now I'm in London but when I get back I have some new things to post... finally!

-Don

Going Through My Pile of Kurt