
Every year, one of Portland’s free weekly papers, the Willamette Week, puts out a catalog-sized free magazine called The Finder. It’s a guide to restaurants, bars, neighborhoods, and nightlife all around Portland. They asked me to illustrate a Portland landmark, a statue of Paul Bunyan in North Portland, but to turn him into sort of a hipster-y paper doll. This is printed as a full page, and is backed with ads, so people can actually cut him out and play with him if they so desire. I love doing stuff like this.
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Category :: Illustration
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Here’s a book cover I illustrated for my friend and fellow IPRC worker, A.M. O’Malley. It is a collection of her writing as well as black and white interior illustrations by other friendly artists she knows. I was honored to get to do the cover, and the image of multitudes of objects hanging from trees is one that has always intrigued me, so this seemed fitting when A.M. told me the title of the book.
If you live in Portland, Take a Picture, it Lasts Longer is available at Reading Frenzy, Powell’s, and the Portland Art Museum.
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Po’ Boy Art and Framing in Portland was hosting a show this last Friday called 8×8 Strong. The show’s curators gave the artists 88 words and phrases and up to five 8 by 8 inch wooden panels. I did two of them, the first of which is a take on “breakfast,” and a collaboration with my friend Liz Sherwyn.

And here’s my solo take on “hair-dos and don’ts.” I love simple little single-image paintings like this where I don’t over think anything. I’ve been planning out a little series of them I’d like to find time to do over the summer months.
The opening for the show was great, there are hundreds of pieces in the show and all were framed by Po’ Boy.
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Tags :: , breakfast, Liz Sherwyn, pompadour, whiskey
Tender Loving Empire’s July art show is Rad Hatter; 30 different artists customizing trucker hats. It was a great show opening on Thursday, the hats seemed really popular.

Look at all the hats!

Even more hats!

The first of my two hats. It’s hard to see in the picture, but it says “You Are Not Here.” Bonus points for anyone that can tell me what the map is.

My second hat. Initially I was going to spread this design over both hats, with the tin can string connecting the two, but decided it was more wearable as one hat.
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I did another illustration for the Portland Mercury recently, here it is. That’s Portland’s mayor, Sam Adams, holding the sign.
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