Back in April I spent a weekend with some friends at a lakehouse at the northern end of Lake Conroe (near Houston). The northern end of the lake is less busy because the lake is shallow and there are a lot of tree stumps, mud, and other obstructions. We went out on a boat ride among the detritus and I felt inspired to make this sketch:
This alien crystal lake may be the setting for a future comic.
My series of posts of installation shots of my show Hypermorph at Domy Books, Houston continues.
Here’s a shot of the western wall at the opening:
Hypermorph Installation at Domy Books Houston, Western Wall
I’ve been super busy preparing for my show Hypermorph at Domy Books in Houston. It opens September 25th from 7-9pm, y’all should come check it out if you’re in town.
Here’s a shot of the prep table, you can see the skin for the froghead pillow that Glade is making for me, Kevin Huizenga’s Fight or Run (definitely an inspiration), one of my boots, and the froghead boutinnières.
Here’s Glade stuffing the froghead pillow.
We decided to leave some of the stuffing hanging out. You can also see part of one of my drawings for the show in the following pic.
Here’s the froghead pillow chilling with my face pillow.
Here’s an in-process shot of one of the paintings that I’m doing.
Aight I gotta peace y’all and go read the prologue for Towers of Midnight, I’ll check y’all later.
I finished the poster for my Domy Show last nite, here it is:
The opening will be 7-9 on Saturday, 9/25, at Domy Houston, 1709 Westheimer.
I’m going to have a show at Domy Books Houston from Sept 25th to Oct 21st. The opening is going to be on Sept 25th from 7 to 9 pm. I’m going to be working on it as much as possible until then. I have a long list of things that I want to make but not enough time to make all of them.
Here’s a sketch I made for a painting for the show:
Right now I’m thinking that the show is going to be paintings from a battle between the Miizzzard and the Wojrollox. I want to paint a lot of weird transformations, intensely patterned and colorful costumes, and strange worlds.
Sorry about the missed post on Friday, I was taking a little Thanksgiving blogcation.
My parents live in The Woodlands, a master-planned community 28 miles north of downtown Houston. Although the suburb was bought out by real estate developers in 1997, George Mitchell’s original vision for the community was focused on aesthetics. Relics of some of the original ideas can be seen. On Research Forest Drive, office buildings made entirely out of mirrored windows crouch among the pine trees and swampland. It’s as if Superstudio’s utopian Continuous Monument was begun in the Great Piney Woods of East Texas.
These buildings house genetics firms with nondescript names like GenSys, GenTech, and BioSynth. Inside these corporations, sinister DNA-bending scientists are working to create a new subspecies of humans who can thrive in the petrochemical smog that blankets Houston. One day, they will break free from the labs and take everything within 50 miles of the refineries in Pasadena away from their oxygen-breathing brethren.
My good friend and collaborator Jak Cardini just went to the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston and saw the recently ended show by Jason Villegas and the still continuing Matthew Day Jackson show.
Jak’s already posted about Jackson, who’s totally folk sci fi, and I thought I’d throw up some images of Villegas’ work:
You can find out more about Villegas on his website.
Hey y’all, Monster Show 4 opens this Saturday (Halloween!) from 7-9pm at Domy’s Houston and Austin locations, come check it out! There’ll be many, many fabulous and terrifying monster drawz by tons of talented creators, including the lovely Glade Whitworth.
Here’s the flyer, image drawn by Travis Millard:
Here you can get an all-in-one shot of my monster draws in process and a fraction of my new studio set up:
I’ve had this drawing table since the mid-90s, so please forgive the stickers. If you come to our house (Boongoo Studio) during this year’s East Austin Studio Tour, you’ll be able to see my whole setup!
Well well well. Another week has gone by and I’ve failed to post to my blog on Tuesday. Faithful audience, I apologize – Glade and I still haven’t settled in from our big move, and I’ve been working on drawings for the upcoming Monster Show 4 at Domy Books in Houston and Austin, which opens Halloween nite. Actually, I haven’t been working on the drawings so much as I’ve been playing Zelda for research purposes.
Here’s some original Zelda concept art by Katsuya Terada:
