I’ll be attending the opening at Copro Nason Gallery July 11 for the group show “Monsters”. Travis Louie is the guest curator and there will be a bunch of great artists in the show as well. Here is a review at Erratic Phenomena.

The story of my visit to Travis’ place to frame and then mail my art to Copro Nason. I signed a 1968 Prsche 911 out of the car club. Picked up my friend Steve Ellis who was also in the show. A stick shift from 1968 while being well maintained at the club, is not a good car for a trip over 40 minutes. Ours lasted 3 hours. Because of traffic and getting lost and with breaks, it turned in to about 6. Had to give the old girl a break every now and then. After about 20 minutes on the highway, I realized I was going to have 3rd degree burns on my clutch ankle if I didn’t move it to a more uncomfortable spot above a metal bolt that magically blew piping hot air right at my foot.  There were no air vents, at least that worked, to dry out the windshield if it fogged up. We had to leave at least one window down even when it was drizzling or I’d be driving blind.  Shifting sucked! 1st gear was down and to the left. It was a hard gear to find especially when I had to down shit quickly. From 1st it was esy to shift it in to 4th gear by accident. The front hood which is the trunk, leaked. Fortunately I didn’t put anything that could be damaged by water there. I had a Molly Crabapple’s water color in there but I had wrapped it pretty tightly in plastic. Molly is also in the Copro show.

Once at Travis’ place he went in to framing mode and put us all to shame. I gave Mark Elliot a ride in the car as well. He was there dropping off art also. Travis took the back seat as Steve took the passenger side while I drove us on a supply run. I don’t know if Travis will ever get in a car like that again. It was a challenge to drive, but I actually enjoyed it.

Sketched in Moleskine while on the train. My good friend, Travis Louie, gave me the initial spark for this idea. I recently had the experience of sitting in on a lecture from Barron Storey at the Society of Illustrators. I’ve always dug his work and now I love his attitude too! I also had to do some quick gestures as he spoke.

I’m moving in to a new studio. I’m excited to see how it affects my work. More windows!

Here is the sketch for a painting I’m working on for the “Monsters” show at Copro Nason Gallery in July.

I had a perfect weekend. Thurs. Paul Booth worked on my arm tattoo. Friday, I signed out a BMW z8 convertible, drove to East Stroudsburg and stayed in a bed and breakfast with my girl, Molly, and um , there was something… something else. Oh yeah, I JUMPED OUT OF AN AIRPLANE AT 13,000 FUCKING FEET! I didn’t jump, it was more of a plummet. At the entrance to the airstrip, I saved a 4 inch snapping turtle that seemed to have been confused between what a pond felt like and the middle of a road. I put him back and proceeded to what I thought would be my eventual “bone shattering sort of falling into earth death” with the calm that I saved a little snapping turtle. It was the most amazing experience I ever had. I fell around 120 mph horizontally and then drove a stretch of road at 120 mph in a vertical direction! Sunday we drove over to visit Ron English and he showed us around his studio and home and neighborhood.

At the car club.

2 hours before testing gravity.

That would be me in the blue suit throwing up… out?

That’s the Delaware Water Gap.

One of 6 still-life studies with gouache on Bristol. My favorite coffee cup.

I don’t do this promotion thing very well. I posted it to the right. I have a drawing in the “DRAW” show at Shooting Gallery in San Francisco this month. Last count, there were about 400 artists in it. I feel like a fish in a school, or a cog in the machine, or a “Where’s Waldo” thing. Where is Fred in this show? I think I’ll need a neon, talking, fire works shooting frame to bring any attention to my little pencil drawing. I did do some singling out in my own way by putting it in my “PREVIEWS” section. I guess you can present-view and after-view it also.

Just for kicks. I had the opportunity to see what a Lotus Elise can do. I went to the “Gunks” but it was too cold to rock climb.

20 minute pose with two models at the Society of Illustrators while a 2 piece jazz thing played. I drew one’s front on the other’s back/bottom.

Sketch done on the train a few pages over from the models above.

Dave Wallin working. My first post on You Tube. I’ve only had the account for a year or 3.

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Clayton Cubitt came to my studio to do a long portrait of my girl, Molly Crabapple, and asked if he could do mine. He called it stealing 5 minutes of your soul. Not feeling that I had one to steal, I told him to have at it. He sets up a shot and clicks start on the video button of his camera. My job was to hold still and stare at the camera for 5 minutes. This is me holding still. I apparently can’t do this simple task.

Paul Booth has started my arm sleeve. It looks like ball point pen at this stage, but it has a lot of work ahead!

Dave Wallin at Tattoo Culture in Brooklyn has been working on my back for the last year.

Of course I’m kidding! I did this study a while ago. I started doodling on the train and I think I finished most of it at Verb coffee shop in Williamsburg in Brooklyn. It led to the painting called “The Politician” (or 2 Chickens in every pot) It’s hard to keep my titles straight sometimes because I think they evolve as much as the images. This is the 3rd pencil drawing in the “Delineations” show at Ad Hoc Gallery.

Some pencil drawings I’ll be putting in a group show called “Delineations” curated by Andrew Michael Ford at Ad Hoc Gallery.

Running title so far is “Botoxic with Beads”. This is a little dark because I wanted the subtle line work to show up. It’s a delicate pencil drawing with a lot of subtle tones in it.

“”Elusive Moose”, pencil on off white paper. This is the story of a non-moose taking himself out for a stroll and wagging his non tail at aliens in the parking lot… Don’t ask, I’ve had a shot of Talisker and it’s almost 4AM as I write this.