Let's see how far you can get

New fan art for Suzuki Harunobu! I went to an exhibit on Japanese woodblock prints at the Portland Art Museum with Dylan Meconis, Erika Moen, and Bill Mudron last month and was really inspired by Harunobu's prints.
This image was not in the exhibit; I found it later while searching for his work online. It is probably a sophisticated literary reference, but to me it is a really amusing image of a courtesan so engrossed in her book that she doesn't realize she's being kidnapped by a fish.





E-mail me to buy the original ($75 + $10 postage US or $15 international.). 9"x12" on nice Bristol.

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Sometimes it can seem so cold do what you gotta do to cope

My contribution to Periscope's art auction to benefit victims of the tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan:

Original:

On the night you left I came over

Applications for the 2010 JET fleet went up today. So weird...there's a good chance I could be in Japan this time next year. Pivotal decision, this. I had a strange vision: being at Comic-Con next summer from July 22nd - 25th, and moving to Japan on the 31st. How would all of my art projects work over there...? It would probably be hard to do anything commercial from out of the country, even with the available technology...it might just be an inspiration, learning, and journal-keeping year. :-/

I took a 'visual journaling' class this weekend, which turned out to be a bookmaking class with some medium experimentation in the last 2 hours. It was interesting, but bookmaking just is not my forte...I mean, I fully enjoy it, but I am aware of my strengths, and precision and nit-picking are not among them. My books always turn out loose and uneven, with glue spots. Heinous! I'm better-suited for gestural, messy art. I just can't make myself care enough to measure the loose ends of thread or re-tear a page because it dipped half an inch into my live area.