painting for sarah - asking for directions

Pirate captain stops to ask the locals for directions.

Been working on this off and on in my freetime lately. (Mainly when my computer is loading and I have a minute free here and there to draw some lines.)

A friend of mine let me stay at her place in Seattle for a couple of days while I was out on her coast for a wedding. I gifted her with this as my small way to thank her for the accommodations. My friend works at Microsoft on the new Microsoft/Yahoo collaborative search engine at bing.com. Check it out if you haven't yet.

Small painting, 3 x 4 inches. Acrylic on a little gessoed block.

I had this idea for a painting ages ago, but it sat in the back of my mind waiting patiently to be made.

:)

note2tab icon

Icon for an iPhone app called note2tab. Here is a link to Jon's site for more information about the app. This is a music app, much like the other icons I did recently. http://jmlay-music.com/blog/2009/08/note2tab-now-available/
This was a neat little icon to make. I got to take the 5 lines of written music and turn it into 6 lines of TAB. Made in flash.

iPhone apps

Here are some illustrations and graphics for two iPhone/iTouch apps. Everything was made in flash. :) Check out Jon's website for more info on these apps. http://jmlay-music.com/blog/iphone-apps/

Harmonic Ear Training illustration, icon, and spot graphics.

Sync Points Icon

Tuna Platform Loading Spot Illustration

Here is a loading icon for a website to be www.tunaplatform.com. There isn't anything there yet but someday soon I'm told that the lower right hand tuna in this block will be incorporated as a loading spot illustration. :)

Flash!

Star Wars comic

My friend Shelli (http://www.foolproofart.com/) is putting together a Star Wars FanArt Anthology and my friend Braden (http://www.chiefsheepy.com/) wrote up a little script for me. :) Here it is. Made this in Flash.

new buttons

New button designs!

I am always commuting - Paintings for the Mansion Show

This summer there is going to be an art show called 'The Mansion Show' at Beebe Estate in Melrose MA that I got into. http://beebeestate.org/the_beebe_estate.html

My series for the show is lovingly entitled, 'I am always commuting'. It's a small painting series. The canvas sizes are 6"x10", 5"x7", 2 4"x5", and the smallest at 1.5"x1.5".

Lately, it feels as if I am continuously in a state of commuting. There are unexpected residual adjustments to living with a long commute. One gets bonus time to play games, read, study, listen to podcasts or people watch come rain or shine. But on the other hand one can't get to the post office or library before they close.

Whitman Lives Well Poster

Poster for the Whitman Public Library and their lovely librarians.. :)
This took about a solid weekend, but the text all came together surprisingly fast. Time for smiley emoticon number two . :)

Get your immunizations kiddies! Bike this summer! Play with squirrels! All very important things to do when living in Whitman.

Here is the event page at through the Whitman Public Library webpage.
http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/events.cfm?curOrg=WHITMAN

First Night 2009

Here are some website banner ads I did for Boston's FirstNight. This was such a fun project! Check it out at FirstNight.org.





And here are some process illustrations for the illustration for the 2009 button.




Here is the final button! (I didn't work on the type design.)

yoga poses

unicorn-mermaid

The best of both worlds.

This was probably the smartest thing I will ever have thought and I was 8. What I would have given to grow up and be a unicorn-mermaid. But alas, one can be happy with just the memories of running around their neighbor's pool as the rare princess unicorn mermaid, right?

Summer Villians Holiday CD cover

CD cover for my friend Joe's band 'Summer Villians'.

CD for purchase here.

Kelsey's Brithday Card Spots

Spot illustrations for my niece's first birthday invitations. :)

laura's tattoo

Here is a tattoo design I worked on this amazing lady up in Alberta, Canada.

Little Cody Visits the Underworld

cat talk

dino

Chop Chop Sushi Master - for Thom

The lovely Thom May of http://bridgewindsoup.blogspot.com/ recently bequeathed me some acrylic paints before he departed for sunsets over the pacific ocean. Here is a painting for his parting. Maybe abit of thanks for the paints too. I was unaware that he has been painting cats and text lately. We are of similar minds even with a continent separating us. *tears*.

Rock and Art 08

Rock and Art painting for the 2008 summer concert season. http://www.rockandart.org/ Acrylic on 30x30 inch gessoed board. My band for this program was Crosby, Stills and Nash. My amateur photo skills manifested themselves in losing a bit of the color. The richer green blues and lavenders don't seem to be present in the photo. Haha. I like the painting though. It expresses time, a deep appreciating for the beauty around us and strength of will to pursue into the unknown. Here we have a band that's been an influential voice of activism for generations. While known best for antiwar and counterculture themes they also commonly invoke sailing and nautical references. So one can see why I felt compelled to take a voyage approach. :)

past life regression therapist

Hypnosis quackery pseudotherapy as far as I'm concerned.

Waiting in line at AnimeBoston - for Kristina

Back in May one inauspicious Saturday morning my cousin and myself excitedly set out to Boston to attend our first ever anime convention. It warranted to become an entire day of unrestrained unbridled exorbitant anime goodness. Anime Boston. Little did we know one needed to pass the gatekeepers known as registration. One did this by waiting in line. This 'line' meandered through multiple lecture rooms at the Hynes convention center and is the unrivaled winner of long ass lines. For 5 hours we stayed queued, surrounded by one interesting phenomena. Serious cosplayers. Two things occurred to me. 1) We are out of place in our casual attire of sweatshirt and jeans. 2) This is the largest collection of Narutos one could ever expect to see.


Have been working on this a little bit here and there in my free time for over a month now. Flash and a bit of photoshop magic.

zot likes carrots

modelsheet : me

Model sheel turn of a very stylized me character.

Schrödinger's cat

the paradox. it doesn't seem to apply so well from the point of view we live in. quantum level rules don't exactly fit the same. not nice for kitties.

my thoughts follow me wherever i go

trails of thought follow my days.

logical fallacies. genetic mutation. skeptical debates. nihongo tango. fundamental zealotry. mythology. warping views of science. theories for gaps. empowerment and prehistory. rules and bigotry. beliefs. events. causality. collapse. nutritional values. significance.


a curiously interwoven stream, fleeting and floating away at the only constant i know; that of my internal voice.

Character Illustrations

Character illustrations for Group 4 (http://www.g4arch.com/) and a project with the Columbus Metropolitan Library.:)

a dog and his boy

My buddy Evan and his awesome dog Rufus! :)
http://evansussman.blogspot.com/

we are friend