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The babelfish style title barely obfuscates the subject.

This is currently hanging at the Flight Path, part of the Only In Dreams show, organized by my good friend, Ren Sacco. It’ll be there through the first week or so of August. The show opening was fantastically positive, and the first time I’d shown any work to a lot of talented Austin artists. And nobody seemed to be too put off, so I was pretty geeked.

I read Ellis’s blog pretty religiously, being both a fan of sci-fi and novel ways to cuss; but I’ve rarely felt so sympathetic. These are the things we need to be working towards and dreaming about. Art’s good for the soul, but personally, I think exploration is a tad nobler. We’re the generation the space program taught to dream and then abandoned, and I think it’s a damn shame.

And the indigenous life wouldn’t even have to die. We could keep some Mars bugs in a petri dish if we find them.

(Thus paving the way for every bad sci-fi/horror/zombie flick ever.)

Ok, so this one got a little silly. I feel like it captures a little bit of Tyler’s soul, though. A tiny little bit.

Here’s a new flier for Tyler Jordan.

I said I’d post something today. I don’t know whether I like the overall colors better than the straight inked version, but it was a fun little sketch, and I enjoyed playing fast and dirty with photoshop, even if I didn’t do anything grand. Let me know what you think!

Just added a bit more texture. Maybe it’s getting somewhere. I’ll know when I’m done.

On a side note, a silly drawing I did for a friend who plays music here in Austin made it onto his show flier. My friend Alicia’s using it as her profile pic for now, so have a look.

Finished another round of revisions. The revisions were really light this time, so I’m not going to bother reposting anything here but the link to threadless. I’m feeling fairly good about it.

And I think I’ve figured out what my next personal, blog driven project will be - a customized igoogle theme.

And my website is almost done transitioning to a new server so i can start work on that can of worms.

Did this yesterday, afternoon/evening. I was a little frustrated with some of the drawbacks of speed painting. For instance, I painted a lot of really thick wet into wet, so it’s going to take forever to dry and any mistakes I made (there are plenty) are going to be immortalized in big, raised brush strokes. Probably could’ve avoided it if I were a better painter, but still, overall, I’m happy with it. I’m hoping to get it over to Austin Figurative Gallery in time for inclusion in their self portrait show. The show automatically admits anyone who brings a painting, so I don’t get any special bragging rights there; but it’ll be a good way to meet some local artists.

Here’s what I’m working on right now. It won’t be too fancy, it’s on a pretty crappy particle board surface and not primed very well, but it’s good practice. I’m going to put up the occasional WIP.