nuke fireball

gold leaf and metallic paint with acrylic

baby steps into water color

the subtleties of water color brush evade me, but water color pencil gets similar effect without the mess. Combined with black ink, the effect is pretty nice.

Here's some early experiments.

markers and pencil

went through a bit of a phase of flow of consciousness cartoons, just making lines to the music until stuff forms. Strange results from brush-tip marker and colored pencil. Lots of drawing over old pencil sketches.

enjoyable explorations of a strange subconscious

lifedrawing

finally got my ass back to lifedrawing for a sunday gesture session, and lucky me one of my favorite models was posing!

entangled

Based on some sketches from zeds dead, this is the first in what will be a series of increasingly disturbing psychedelic paintings as I focus on projecting the bizarre contents of my subconscious

Zeds Dead at Fortune sound lounge

This was a whole other level of concert. I've been to some sweet shows, but I was overwhelmed by Zeds Dead. Fucking inspiring.

new years eve sketches

I've never liked new years eve parties. The end of a year makes me reflective and introspective, not particularly charged to party. Despite my angsty musings over .... nothing ... Jenn hosted an awesome party. My sketchbook was calling to me, so I grabbed a fat marker with a broad felt tip and got to doodling.

kid koala at biltmore

I'd seen Kid Koala nearly a year prior to this show, his style has made some really cool progress since then. He seems to be drawing more influence from the bassy warble of dubstep, and works it into his style nicely, keeping that jazzy feel with lots of obscure spoken audio from forgotten albums.

Unfortunately it was so packed I didn't have room to stand to get many sketches

woosh!

nebula

spiraling star birth

red white black

some new friends made for inspiring company for a sunday evening art session

those abstract swoops are what happen when I put pencil to paper and just play with line. Not sure what the talon-clock thing is all about, just kinda happened

"my sister got lucky, married a yuppie

Took him for all he was worth

Now she's a swinger dating a singer

I can't decide which is worse"

Ninjaspy at Funkywinkerbean

my energy was all spent from sketching Endast, so I only got a few. Just couldn't keep up with Ninjaspy's energy

Endast

Endast played a helluva set

Funky Winker Bean

metal show crowds are fun to draw

blue planet

Incoming

This one didn't turn out like what I had in mind on the outset, but it's pretty fun anyway.

Happy accidents

a happy little doomsday rock hurtling towards the north pole

sweet

We Found The Body

heavy on the thrash

faces

a few heads from the crowd at the Funky Winker Bean tonight

Just a baby nuke ...

spiraling nebula

doodles

meet Jake, the cake headed refridgemobot

Affy added some personality to the drawers

she also locked a dude in my dishwasher ....

huh ... that would explain why the drain is busted ...

onward

life drawing philosophy discussion

Less talk

more walk

artists block

It's a bitch

Funky Winker Bean

fresh venue, always fun

This place is a great spot for a metal show, I'll definitely be back there soon (though my ears still ring from forgetting my plugs at home) similar vibe as Astoria, but much much closer to my apartment

I do appreciate the sight of a dozen metal heads with hair past their shoulders head banging in unison like some pagan worship ritual

Rain City Art Mob

Saturday was the first art mob, and it went pretty well! Chose to meet on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, which was a bit of a bunk decision as that street is currently being rebuild on all sides plus the weather was threatening drizzle so once everyone was there we headed down to the Library Square atrium. Future art mobs will most likely be hosted at the same spot, it's more flexible with easy shelter from rain and access to the oh-so-crucial creativity catalyzing coffee.

The chemistry to the afternoon was super fun as a good number of the artists had not met each other before. Grabbed some beers and eats at the Beatty Street Bar and Grill after the sketching was done with

The next few weekends will be busy, but eventually I'm hoping to make the Rain City Art Mob a weekly gathering

started off with a bunch of brush-tip-pen crowd sketches

after moving to the library switched to a felt tip pen to draw some robits

blast from the past

Got to catch up with a friend from back home this weekend, Janna was in town last week so we hit up a show at the New Media Club. I left my sketchbook at home for this one, opted to dance my ass off instead. The first band was pretty mellow, but the next two kicked up some synth and it was good times.

anyone know who the bands were? (I didn't get a chance to write down their names, was too busy dancing) It was Thursday, July 1st at the Media Club.

The Tale of Tanner Talstrom Kalstrom and the Hula Hoopin Hippie Hotties

Friday evening I finally got to see Fixed Fragmented Fluid, Michele Gagne's improvised abstract jazz animation experiment. Definitely groundbreaking, the sounds produced by the musicians were mind bending. Some satanic deal must have been involved to endow Peter Evans with the unearthy ability to make a piccalo trumpet sound like a tuba. Paul Plimly's erratic motion at the piano were mesmerizing, especially when he started reaching into the instrument and messing with the strings directly, a hand-plucked harpsichord. His chemistry with Lucas Niggli was uncanny, they were reading each others minds from across the stage. The experience was far over my head, I was totally overwhelmed by the assault of bizarre sounds. If you're into experimental music, this is right up your alley

After the show I headed to Brady's for Tanner's Birthday party/triumphant return. Can't believe we tapped out the keg so fast. Epic dance party ensued.

Saturday featured hooping at a park by the seawall and absorbing some of this "sun" that I've heard so much about. I had forgotten about the giant ball of fire our world orbits. Manage to take myself out with a hula hoop. Apparently putting it around your neck and spinning it as hard as you can causes it to smack you in the face. You win this round, physics!

Later that night after the pairs had gotten back from Aziz Ansari, Tanner discovered the joy of drunken Nun-chucks AKA Drunk-chucks!

The impulse struck to draw on the dishwasher, so I handed Dr Omis the marker and he got to it while I sketched what I thought it should look like. The resulting conversation was as follows

Zeke - Dude check this out

Dr Omis - What's that?

Zeke - I'ts a M-----F----- ODing and frothing at the mouth

Dr Omis - That's cool, I drew a kitty!

Kelly contributed this wonderfully unsettling piece

Some Basic Inquiry practicing from earlier today

some "meh" gestures. Wasn't feelin it yet

switched to charcoal for some negative space and value

dual-wielding chalk/charcoal style