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Where did all my art go?!

Well, I've been spending time working on some other projects, including a 16 page comic called Sealed: Growing Up Tupperware. It's my first experience with coloring my artwork digitally, so it's a brand new avenue for me. I'll publish it as a webcomic, stay tuned for details! Here's the cover...


In 2 DAYS I will be leaving on another adventure abroad...this time to Spain, Portugal, and Scotland. I'll be going with my family in celebration of my parents 40th wedding anniversary, then meeting up with my friend Jamie in Edinburgh. (I return April 29th)

So if you wanna catch me before I leave on Friday, come by HiChristina TOMORROW NIGHT (Thursday) after 8pm! I'll be assisting my traveling companion Mr Duck as he gives a slide show of his travels...it'll be part of a fun night that combines Uzi's Open and ToTheHills Film night. You might remember I had a show at HiChristina (aka: Slip) back in the summer, but it has a new bigger location in Brooklyn...

...and I painted the new awning!

HiChristina is at 632 Grand Street in Williamsburg...between Leonard and Manhattan just off of the Lorimer L Stop.

In other news, my friend KARAT has been making popping up online in places like Brooklyn Street Art and Gothamist.

Stay tuned...
In a couple days I'll share my new TRAVEL BLOG and pictures of a slew of NEW ETCHINGS by Karat!

Currently reading...The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

March 5th, 2009

These pieces were all inspired by my recent trip to Iceland. If you'd like to see pictures, check out my Iceland travel blog. Please click on the image to enlarge!

I drew this at JFK waiting for my flight to Reykjavik.

This is a very abstracted landscape of Iceland in winter. Just to give you a point of reference, here is a picture I took out of the window of a bus during a snowstorm...lots of white:

Here's the next drawing...

This was inspired by a beach at Jokulsarlon. I loved the play between the black beach, the white snow, and glassy chunks of ice. Here is a picture from that beach:

And here is the next drawing...

So, I LOVE glaciers. (I drew about glaciers a couple years ago, and if you're curious you can see my musings and drawings on the subject here.) So it was a big goal of mine to visit Vatnajökull (the biggest glacier outside the polar ice caps) while I was in Iceland. The experience of hiking along this massive glacier with no other person in sight was really humbling and awe inspiring. When I stared into the ice it overwhelmed me how inconceivably old, powerful, and massive it is. I felt like I was just looking into forever...this is my attempt to draw about the experience.

Icelandic is such an intriguing language, I really wish I wasn't so terrible at pronouncing it! (In an old drawing of mine my heart speaks Icelandic.) Although I'm hopeless at speaking it, I still find it fascinating. Here I copied from the opening chapters of the famous Laxæla Saga.


Karat hit Reykjavik!
Here is Heart Radio Tower, a copper etching in downtown Reykjavik. It's on Klapparstigur just North of Laugavegur.


And here is Lost in Brooklyn, it's on Bankastræti by Naked Ape. (At Grundarstigur)


Currently Listening: Empire of the Sun...Walking on a Dream