Illustration Friday: Blur

Whatcher Yennough, Patron Saint of First Impressions, acrylic and collage on found plywood, 2009. (Detail view.) Click image to view source.

He's, I don't know, maybe medium-sized, you know, average height, with short brown hair. I think he wears glasses. Eyes? Maybe bluish-brownish. Kinda dark, but, you know, not like dark dark. He was kinda funny-lookin'.

Whatcher is available at aka gallery in Oklahoma City. Detail views here and here.

Profile on the Society of Illustrators LA Blog

Margaret V, acrylic and graphite on masonite, 2005 by Sarah Atlee

The Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles blog has posted a profile of me and my work. Click here to read it. Thank you, SILA, for providing your members with an online gallery, and helping the public get to know us a little better.

I Like Maira Kalman

Illustration of cafeteria cherry pie by Maira Kalman, from her New York Times column And The Pursuit of Happiness. See below for links to Kalman's column.

At Ease, Kalman's latest installment of her New York Times column.
Read Kalman's latest column here.
Order The Illustrated Elements of Style here.
Check out some more of Maira Kalman's many illustrated books.

Friskee Trax 4 Cover

Cover illustration for Friskee Trax 4 compilation from Friskee Media. Ink on found paper, 2009. Click image to view larger.

My friend Josh Heilaman of Friskee Media commissioned this cover for the Friskee Trax Compilation vol. 4. Head on over to the Friskee site to sample the tasty beats buffet.

The original drawing is about 5 inches square, a marker drawing on an old map.

Alison Bechdel on Creating Fun Home

Alison Bechdel is the creator of the comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For. Her recent book, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, is a frank and tender deconstruction of her childhood and adolescence. It's never easy to understand one's parents from an adult perspective, and Bechdel uses Fun Home to explore her father's identity through fresh eyes.

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