When I was a child, all I ever wanted to be was to become an artist. Well, that and the occasional fantasies of being a Ninja Turtle, but realistically, I wanted to become an artist. When everything else in my life goes to shit, I can always rely on making art to distract me temporarily until shit calms down. WELL… now I’m shit deep in student loans and shit ain’t calming down! You bet your ass I’ve been busy making art.

First off, I was involved in this:

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Here’s the weekly dig using my sculpture to promote the event. They didn’t mention my name, but they did mention the opening reception date…too bad it’s WRONG!

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Here’s ArtSake blogging about Glovebox. They used a picture I gave Liz and Jodie concerning the progress of my work.

(click image to follow link) Here’s Glovebox doing a blog about my participation with Junko Revival. They sent me some questions and I answered them.

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Here’s “Wicked Local” covering the event with a picture of my sculpture complete with title, medium, and gasp! Artist name. Recognition at last.

Go check it out…the art will be up till August 8 so you have time to check them out.
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Here’s the thing…
I never leave my apartment without my man-purse or “murse,” because it carries essential tools for my daily adventures; a camera, an Ipod, pens and pencils of different sizes and colors, but most importantly, it carries my sketchbook, which acts like a diary or a journal to me. I once lost a murse carrying one of my sketchbooks once and I’ve never forgiven myself for doing so…Actually, that’s a lie, at the time I didn’t feel bad because when I searched the bar I last saw it—I instead got a phone number and a date with a fairly attractive girl who worked there. When she ended up being frighteningly weird and kinda psychotic after our first date, THEN I started feeling bad about losing my murse and sketchbook.

Back to the topic! Anyways, when I want to make some art that isn’t elaborately big or time consuming….I look to my murse and attack my sketchbook. I will now show you selected pages from it:

(pencil on paper)

I didn’t want to put this one up but I feel I should show you an example of what happens when you stop drawing for a while. You get rusty and annoyed at yourself. This thing took me hours to finish. Lying on the grass in Cambridge, staring up at this statue of John Bridge, and being eaten alive by bugs while I disappoint myself with every line drawn. I stopped caring if the shadows and proportions made any sense, as I just wanted to finish the damn thing before the bugs finished me off. One climbed inside my ear and I’ve had enough.

(ink on paper)

I love comedic violence and this was from a film Carlos and me were involved in. I’m quite fond of characters who—after being severely beaten, taken multiple lacerations, gun shot wounds, stab wounds, lose massive amount of blood and other ridiculousness—they just absolutely refuse to die. They’re like the terminator except they feel pain and it’s hilarious. Anyways, that’s me being stubborn and giving the salute while Carlos beats me with a two by four.

(markers on paper)

“What? Why?” that was the reaction I got from Sarah when I told her I wanted to draw her. I mean she understands how natural it is for me to ask people if I could draw them just like I understand how natural it is for her to think it’s creepy. Phew…good thing I’m already going out with her. Anyways, her reaction after I finished this was “You made me look cool.” To which I will simply and cockily reply…. “psshh—I know.”

Ok…. so the next following crop of art are Improv Asylum oriented. It’s almost a year since I had the awkward job interview at this place and it’s almost a year since I pretended to like beer in order to fit in working here. Anyways, the point is I’m quite fond of this place.

(markers on paper)

Here’s what an actor looks like waiting for his queue to enter a scene.

(markers on paper)

This is Evan X…. Opera singer, Republican, Box Office Wizard, and all around nice guy.

(colored pencils on black artagain paper)

This is Doug, one of many funny improv comedians on the Mainstage.

(markers on paper)

This is here is Bryce. Bryce is part of the NXT cast and his humor is gold.

(ink and markers on paper)

This charming fella’s name is Danny. Danny invited me to his Halloween Party last year. It was a costume party he says…. so I went as Dr. Zoidberg and everyone else went as themselves. Thanks Danny.

I wanted to show the poster I made for the current NXT revue called “LOST IN BOSTON or Something Wicked Pissah This Way Comes” But that’ll probably be considered a sketch spoiler. SO if you’re in the Boston Area…go to the Improv Asylum on Wendesday or Sunday for the 8PM show. My poster’s hilarity relies on their execution of the sketch and they do execute excellently…. go see it.
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The last batch of artworks on here, are posters I made for Harvard plays and Operas.

(Acrylic on panel)

This right here is the poster for the Lowell House Opera’s annual Spring Scenes concert. I’m not too fond of this poster, and I don’t think they were too happy about it also—seeing that I didn’t get any feedback from them or a copy of the poster like they usually do. Sigh…it’s just not the same without Sarah Eggleston (a friend and former LHO producer).

(Acrylic on Board)

This lovely little thing is a poster for the Gilbert and Sullivan’s production of “The Gondoliers.” The producer asked me for sex appeal…and I gave him three fleshy drawings and we settled on this one. I was told that this was pretty racy for Gilbert and Sullivan…but hey, sex sells.

(Acrylic and Digital on Board)

This last one is the first time I used digital media on a poster. Why? Because I was running out of time…and photoshop just did a better job at reflecting the mountains on the water. Anyways, the producer gave me a very abstract description on what she wanted on the poster so I just painted the objects I understood from her description and apparently I hit the target.

And that’s it for now. I really wanted to make more art to show on here but shit will never calm down this way, as I actually have to confront my student loans dilemma. Being an Artist is hard… I wonder if it’s not too late to pursue a career as a ninja turtle.

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