I hope everyone has a Happy Halloween! Above and below are a couple Halloween-themed text collages I created for my "Art for Everyone" series.

"Conan"
Collage on mat board
7"x5"

Today the Team Coco crew let me know that my artwork is now on Conan O'Brien's website. I put together this mini collage the other day as part of my effort to start up a series of famous faces. I'd like to sharpen my illustration skills with capturing the likeness of well-known figures.

The other day I decided to try something a little different - collaging words and phrases. Instead of cutting out strips of colorful, textured paper for portraits or landscapes, I decided to focus on words.

This new series was inspired by some of my previous work, like the above collage called "Snowflakes." "Snowflakes" was a commissioned piece where I cut out bits and pieces of black paper to make the lettering for an Alice Childress quote.

This new text series is called "Art for Everyone," where I'm collaging art or art-related words and phrases. Instead of focusing on one color for the text, I'm using a variety of textures and colors. I'm also experimenting with different ways of making letters look more like simple shapes.

You can check-out more pieces in the series as I list them in my "Art for Everyone" Etsy section.

A few days ago I mentioned that my brother (an animator in NYC) and I worked on a 3d collage character study (Birdy). Recently I collaged a background for Birdy, and worked on some bark texture and a few collaged leaves. Above you can see what Birdy looks like in his new environment.

The other week I got my copy of Papirmasse in the mail, which is a publication based in Canada that features prints of artwork alongside writing. I was thrilled to be part of the September postcard edition, and was happy to get ten postcard-sized prints of artwork in the mail. Just look at them all! Looks like I have quite a few more prints to add to my bulletin board.


On each postcard, there's a print of a work of art on one side (above is a print of my "Snorkeling" collage).

"Meet the Bostons - Ivy and Molly"
Collage on paper
12"x16"

And here's the final collage. Those two Bostons sure look like they're having a lot of fun...

So Bosty decided to squeeze into the picture.

And it's almost complete! The next image I'll post of these two will be the finished collage. Here you can see I've developed the dogs more and have almost covered the entire background with magazine strips.

Just a couple more progress pictures and then you'll see the finished image of this piece. At this point I blocked out the color in the background more and started piecing together bits and pieces of paper on top of the dog sketches. I really enjoyed collaging these two - they look so happy.

Anyway, I'm off to start working on a collaboration project for a 3d animated character study. Hopefully I'll have something to share somewhat soon.

Here's the next stage of the Bostons collage. You can see I've started to block out the color in the background as well as parts of the dogs. These Bostys have got me thinking that I should work on some more dog and cat collages in the future. But for the time being, I'm busy busy with commission work, collaborations, and a few portraits. Whew! More progress pictures/completed collage images to come soon.