House Shows are the Fun Shows - Hot Tears, Jacqui, Feb 16

Last week I got to see some little bands play in house for the first time in ages. Not something that I thought happened so much in NYC, so I was really excited to crowd into a living room with a bunch of people and see a lineup of three really awesome women tear it down. All were totally inspiring, but I have to say... If you haven't heard Hot Tears yet, I highly recommend checking them (her, in this case, as she was without her cellist) out. I might be bias because she came all the way from Olympia, but... no actually, she was just had a really beautiful and technically perplexing set. Missing from these sketches is Audre Waiste; I wasn't in a good spot to draw when she was playing, but she was great too!

Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest #2

Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest...

Just before New Years I went digging around on YouTube for a few songs I loved listening to some 20 years ago and ended up reflecting so hard on my early adolescence that I was inspired to scribble out a retrospective mini series honoring what it was like to live in the Pacific Northwest in the 90s. I had a chance to make it out to that dark corner of the world for the holiday season and-- in addition to having had the time of my life meeting up with my best friends from half a lifetime ago-- I fell into a deluge of memories that I'd all but forgotten. Here's the first one.

I'm kind of new at this narrative sequential artthing, but I think it'sgoing okay so far! 

Seen Recenty at a Party in NE Portland

Drawathon, January 2014

Last week I made it out to Drawathon and remembered what good things NYC has to offer me right now: Quaint and beautifully DJ'd drawing parties in the back of divey bars where punks pose naked as you capture their figure with a cramped room fulla other sketchbook-a-teers, all the way from 8 until midnight on a Monday. When I opened my book to see what I got from last week, I realized that I'd barely drawn anything worth posting from the models. I did, however, have a fun time capturing the "performers". The guy on the bottom, who played bass for a trashy neo-NY punk band growled a hell of a lot while I was scribbling his outline. Here you go!