Economy of Line revisited

The Bureau's "Economy of Line" show, last Friday, was great! Good turn out, and it seemed like both my fellow Bureaucrats and the people visiting the gallery where all having a great time and really enjoying the results.

Early in the evening, the walls are still bear, the artists are hard at work, and people are beginning to trickle in.

As the night goes on, more art goes up!

A couple of hours later, the walls start to fill up, as does the room.

For my part, I ended up drawing underpants. Lot's of underpants. It started with a cartoon of a rabbit in underpants, and moved on to a variety of different creatures, including an alien in underpants... my one sale of the evening.

Studio (206) and Economy of Line

Recently, I contributed a piece (hint: it's the illustration in the previous entry) to the Gallery (206) Project, and last night the piece had its big opening. A re-purposed phonebooth, each of its 19 glass panels contains and original piece of art by a local artist, and inside, it contains an audio piece in the phone receiver and art by 206 other local artists in the "phonebook."

Crappy cellphone image of the booth, I'll upload better images when I get the chance.

Edit! New photos!
Here I am, standing in the phonebooth. Please, disregard the odd look on my face. Hmmmm...

The phonebook, open to my page. I still want to go back and check out the phonebook again when I have more time. Such a cool piece. I'd love ot have a copy.

Anyhow, it turned out pretty amazing. I only had a little time inside the booth, but looking through the phonebook, both the art and its presentation was excellent. Finger's crossed that project organizer, Todd Jannausch considers making copies of it available for sale, because I'd love a copy to fill through at my leisure.

I'm not sure how long the gallery will be up (or how long it will last when exposed to the roving hordes of Pioneer Square), but try to check it out if you have the chance.

Looking for another opportunity to see my work and see the work of other amazing Seattle-based illustrators? Well, look no further that the Bureau of Drawer's upcoming Economy of Line one-night show. To quote the press release:

UrbanLight Studios and The Bureau of Drawers are proud to announce "Economy Of Line", an all-new, live-drawing event and gallery show running one night only during the Greenwood-Phinney ArtWalk, June 10, from 6pm-10pm.

"Economy of Line" will feature twenty artists from the Seattle-based art collective The Bureau of Drawers creating original art on the spot and before the very eyes of visitors to the Greenwood Collective's UrbanLight Studios. All art will be for sale, and the artists will be working out in the open to meet and greet all attendees. Watch us build a gallery show while you watch - the walls will fill as the night carries on.

Artists participating in the evening include Lillian Beaty, Breanne Boland, Nikki Burch, Sean Closson, Sara DeRosier, Tom Dougherty, Scott Faulkner, Nico Feliciano, Tyler Hill, Justin Ison, Jon Morris, Marc Palm, Sean Robinson, Lawrence Ruelos, Mark Stockbridge, Stevie VanBronkhorst, Tom Van Deusen and Adam Watson.

Join Urbanlight Studios and the Bureau of Drawers during the Greenwood-Phinney Artwalk on June 10 for a night of live drawing like no other!

And here's the poster, designed by fellow Bureaucrat, Calamity Jon Morris:

COMBO #1: The other pieces

In my previous post, I posted one of the four images that I created for the UrbanLight Combo #1 gallery show. Today, I thought it was about time to show off the other three prints, titled ABC, GHI and JKL respectively.





As you've probably correctly guess, these four illustrations are part of a set which spans the entire alphabet. For each, I found a word for each of the three letters (five letters for the last piece) and then constructed an image which incorporates those words. Just because that wasn't heavy-handed each piece is one of the colors of the rainbow.

There will eventually be four more illustrations in this series. Those four illustrations have been draw, and were included in the coloring book in the Combo #1 box, but I haven't colored them yet. I hope to do this sometime in the near future.

Did you miss the Combo #1 Show? Well, that definitely wasn't your last chance to check out some of my art and the art of my fellow Bureaucrats! In fact, this Friday, at Cafe Racer, we will be hosting a special "Monster" themed show: The 1st Annual Monstrous Halloween Art Show!



For this show, I will only have one piece. But, unlike the four pieces in the UrbanLight show, which will all giclee prints, this is will be a hand-drawn and inked piece.

Anyhow, details about the opening are on Dalton's flier above. Hope to see you there!

COMBO #1 show at UrbanLight Studios

Tonight, for one night onle, me and my fellow Bureaucrats will be holding a gallery exhibit at Greenwood's UrbanLight Studio. This show, which will feature a number of pieces of original art as well as live drawing sessions (get an original drawing, for only $1!) is in support of the Bureau of Drawers first group release: Combo #1.



Combo #1 is a veritable grab-bag of original comics and similar pamphlets created by 16 members of the Bureau. You'll be able to buy this little treasure when it makes its debut tonight at our show.

In addition, many members of the Bureau will be showing original art and prints drawn from or inspired by their submissions. I'll be displaying 4 prints, including this images below, entitled DEF:



Here's all the details you'll need to find us!

COMBO #1: Gallery Show and Release Party
Featuring the Bureau of Drawers
Friday, Sept 10
6-10PM
UrbanLight Studios
info@urbanlightstudios.com
8537 Greenwood Ave N
Seattle, WA (206) 913-2834

See you there!

SAM Remix appearance

To quote myself on Facebook:

Do you like Fun? What about Art? Music? Me? If you answered "yes" to at least one of those things, you should come see me and the Bureau of Drawers at the Olympic Sculpture Garden this Friday. We'll be drawing. Outside. Starting at 8pm. I'll say it again: Fun.

The Bureau of Drawers, including me, will be engaging in some public illustration this Friday at the Olympic Sculpture Garden as part of SAM Remix. I'm really excited that we are part of what should be an exciting night of art and music. The whole line up sounds interesting:

* Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock discusses his brand new installation for the PACCAR Pavilion
* Enjoy SunTzu Sound’s cosmic blend of urban cultures and organic rhythms.
* Truckasauras rocks the party with an explosive lo-fi live set.
* Seattle Percussion Collective provides a sunset soundtrack to Richard Serra’s "Wake".
* Writer Amber Flame responds to the work of Trenton Doyle Hancock.
* Collaborate with visual artist Mandy Greer using recycled materials.
* Dance under the stars to the global beats of I Heart Shiva.
* Contribute to a massive collaborative comic drawing with the Bureau of Drawers.
* The band Library Science rouses the senses with aural and visual delights.
* Susie Lee presents a dance, music, and digital drawing project.
* Try this spontaneous one-line poetry form derived by Allen Ginsberg from haiku.
* My Favorite Things Tours with artist Jenny Heishman, writer Michael Dylan Welch, Seattle Weekly's Victoria Ellison, art critic Jen Graves and others.

Personally, I have a soft spot for I Heart Shiva, since I first met my wife at Seattle's the Baltic Room, during an I Heart Shiva night. But, the real action will certainly (or at least hopefully) be the collaborative illustration project lead by the Bureau of Drawers, so come check it out!