Chicago has been so unseasonably warm, spring restlessness has had an early onset this year. These months are moving fast and I’m welcoming all the change - the impending doom of moving out of my beautiful apartment of 3 years is a great excuse to do a massive purge and change up the scenery.  Spring on it’s own has the effect of renewal and new growth and I fully intend on using it to my full advantage!  I can’t tell you how great it feels to have the windows open, use the bike, wear some shorts and lay around outside.  This is one of the greatest cities in the Spring!  

For anyone who is in Chicago this next month, I will have all new work in this show at Oh No! Doom - appropriately on Friday the 13th.  I’ll be posting some process shots soon, it’s nice to be doing some personal work and this show’s theme is right down my alley.  If you’re nearby, come check it out:

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I think that’s a pretty good sampling: food, Godzilla, painting, natural oddities (also a subcatagory of food).

Made it back from Arizona.  Got a little lost, took a vision quest, ended up in a town made famous by an Eagles song.  Subsequently took it easy.

Sunday afternoon sepia-toned barn swallows.

If you give me enough time, I will roll an idea around in my head for weeks, kneading out lumps and smoothing rough edges until I’m absolutely confident in it’s execution.  I’m used to work that’s built with watercolor, with just as much construction as there is excavating - tattoos require planning and deliberation - there’s no going back once it’s committed to skin and a decisions you make early in the process can completely derail you.

I have been bouncing this idea back and forth for some time now, and good ole Matthew Woodson graciously donated a large swath of skin for the cause.  For such a large piece, it’s such a relief to have someone who is willing to work with you, and is willing to commit to finishing it, which can be several sessions and many many hours of work.  The photos don’t really illustrate how huge this is, almost hip to knee.  So far, it’s only line work and to me, just feels like a wire frame for what this tattoo will turn into.  I can’t wait to get lost in the textures and whiskers and dust and details of this - five hours in, many more to come.