Who am I to disagree?

Here's the mp3 file for the interview with 89.9 FM Portland, All Classical about Comic Artist Night at the Opera. Patrick posted on my Facebook page last night that it may have been cut from the program. I was not around a radio yesterday so I can neither confirm nor deny that it aired.

I feel unlike I've ever felt

The Portland Opera put on another Comic Artist Night at the Opera event on Monday night, and I was lucky enough to be invited! :D Here are some illustrations I made, inspired by L'Heure Espagnole and L'Enfant et les Sortileges. These 2 plays were my favorite from the entire 2010/2011 season, so if you live in Portland, do yourself a favor and buy tickets to one of the performances this week! I'm going again on Tuesday night, they were so good.

(L'Enfant et les Sortileges was about a bratty kid having a guilt nightmare. I loved the lament of the various animals he tormented at play! There was a really cool effect in the scene where actors pressed their faces and hands through fabric trees that I tried illustrating here.)



(L'Heure Espagnole was a bedroom comedy about a woman trying to have an affair and being endlessly frustrated by her male companionship options. I laughed so hard at the poet and muledriver suitors!)

Comic artists were treated to pizza, beer, and wine before the performances. I indulged, and my notes from the opera were, accordingly, remarkably unhelpful:




Thank you SO MUCH to Julia Sheridan and everyone at the Portland Opera for the opportunity to see all of the amazing operas this year! I've had an amazing time and plan to attend the opera next year as well! :)

Let's just drive until we're completely alone

My second finished pin-up for Hansel and Gretel:


This will probably be my last, as the art is due tonight. I had an idea for one more, but maybe I'll get a chance to do it later just for fun. :)

On my guilty feet I follow him in the trees

My first finished pin-up for Hansel and Gretel:

I'm hungry, I'm dirty

The Portland Opera had another Comic Artist Night at the Opera event last night! It was SO fun. :D This time the opera was Hansel and Gretel, which was incredible! So creepy and funny and entertaining! It was in English, we all had book lights, and we all knew what to expect, so I think the work that all of the artists turn in will be even better this time around.
I decided to sketch during the opera and make some finished pin-ups at home (coming soon). Here are my sketchbook pages from the show:





And some other doodles from this week:

I believed in you

EDIT: The Portland Opera has uploaded many artists' work here.

EDIT: Also check out Erika Moen, Ron Chan, Cat Farris, Colleen Coover, and Mike Russell's work from that night!

Last night, the Portland Opera treated 20 comic artists to a really special evening: seeing the opera's dress rehearsal productions of Pagliacci and Carmina Burana at the Keller Auditorium for free. All we had to do was make some comics/drawings to remember the night by! I'll do that any day. The show was awesome. If you live in Portland, go to one of the four performances this week and next!!!!