Sumi Swirls and Sleeping Girls

Did I not post these? I forgot to post these! I created these five large sumi ink paintings in January for the group show: Wavelengths, at GR2 in Los Angeles. I kept these simple, just sumi ink on watercolor paper.5 More Minutes_sample

“Five more Minutes”coil_sample

“Coil”

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“Curl 2”

Dark Matter_sample

“Dark Matter”

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“Fog”

P.S. Hi Fructose wrote a little blurb about the show here (!).

Cute girl tattoo – work in progress

This is my recent project, my hand shows the scale. This is the largest cute girl yet, and this is only after one day of her tattoo session. Sumi ink and acrylic paint on Arches printmaking paper, around 3.5’x5′.  Updates will follow.

A little something about Ray Jones

If you haven’t yet seen the illustrative work of Brooklyn-based Ray Jones, do it now. Do it. Go here. I’ll wait.

His traditional sumi ink work is stunning, and his work is both inspiring and maddening because of its seeming effortlessness. His work is simple and complex, clean and dirty. His subject matter follows body parts enveloped in seas of ink resembling bracken, water, and nest-like beds, insects, decay, waves and bones. His black and white ink work is beautiful, but his colored work also shows restraint and strength in all the right places. I’m insanely jealous of his remarkable body of work, and excited to keep seeing what comes next.