Owen Sherwood

My old college roomie and great illustrator Owen Sherwood has some new pieces up on his blog including a great series on the world cup. I love his combination of pencil and digital.

The end of Lance . . .

I was listening to the Tour a bit this year and thought I'd do a little Lance Armstrong piece. I got to admit, the guy's tough, but with the doping allegations and his being 38 (almost 39) he's really out of contention. This could be part of a Roger Clemens, Brett Favre, Michael Jordan retiring then unretiring athletes series:). It's got to be hard to let go, but at some point, just let it go fellas!

Kelsey Bohlinger

I love this new one from my friend Kelsey Bohlinger for a local radio station T-Shirt contest. As a recent graduate she's just getting warmed up, but I think she's going to be a monster!

No, it's Captain Crazy4Cult!

Kiersten and I are part for the Crazy4Cult show opening On Friday, the 9th in LA at Gallery1988. I took on my beloved Goonies. Watching Goonies over and over again for work? No problem. Just made me miss my after school fruit roll-ups and the smell college ruled loose leaf paper. For the show I did a 22"x22" map of the underground part of the movie and 12 of the costume portraits like the ones pictured above including Mikey, Chunk, Data, Brand, Mouth, Andy, Francis Fratelli, Jake Fratteli, and of course, Willy. If you happen to be left-coasting it, check it out!

Sahr Ngaujah in "Fela!"

Sahr Ngaujah in "Fela!", The New Yorker, July 5, 2010

Sahr Ngaujah currently stars in "Fela!" on Broadway.
Read "Say Yeah Yeah" by Hilton Als here.

Caminos del Inka

"Caminos del Inka," The New Yorker, June 28, 2010

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Caminos del Inka perform the music of the Americas at Tanglewood this August.

A Very Interesting Piece...

...On the lack of Critical History in Illustration

http://www.printmag.com/Article/The-Forgotten-History-of-Illustration

I Love Nevada Politics.

Had a fun job for the super nice Rachel Perkins at the Las Vegas Sun last week about the Senate race Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is struggling in. Basically, all of Reid's attacks have been aimed at Sue Lowden, while Sharron Angle has toiling away in relative safety and is now surging in the Republican Primary polls. This one actually made the Newseum Top Ten Front Pages of the day which was pretty cool. If you're a news nerd like me, the Newseum in D.C. is a pretty interesting concept.

Vacation Pictures!

I kept a little sketchbook while I was out in California, and posted the results (or the more sucessful ones at least:)) at my blog.

East River Country: Arthur Miles

Flier depicting forgotten Texas cowboy and throat singer Arthur Miles for a night at a bar I sometimes DJ at.

You can his one song here it here.

Captain Scribble

Doing all these motion graphics things is starting to wear off on my illustration.

Matchbooks! America's Design Library!

Michelle picked me up a sweet matchbook collection at the Brimfield (MA) Antique Show for 5$! This is but a taste. I hate to be one of those illustrators who moons over when overthing was illustrated but uh . . . I'll draw Mister Pancake! I love the processed color palettes too and the hand drawn type - especially the PROX logo.

new portfolio site

Please check out this site that I'm using as a temporary portfolio space as I take some time to do a much-needed update to spoonstudio.com (Jashar, help!)
The navigation is extremely basic, but the images are big and bright and hopefully do the work some justice.

See it here:
http://wotherspoon.grandportfolio.com/

Advice From A Caterpillar

Remember Me?
Back in the game with a new piece I just finished up for fun...

This one's going to live on the wall of a new children's store, aptly named Advice From A Caterpillar.

Twilight Zone: The Eye of the Beholder

I'm so excited to participate in this show along with Drew! My first piece is based on the episode, The Eye of the Beholder.


Show opens May 18th at Gallery 1988 LA

The Twilight Zone!!

Gallery1988 in LA will be hosting a show of Twilight Zone inspired pieces from a host of peeps, including myself (my piece above based on the "5 Characters In Search of an Exit") and fellow friendorfoer Kiersten Essenpreis. Let me tell you, going back and watching all the classic Twilight Zone episodes probably took more time than the actual paintings, but man, it is fun. What an amazing show.

Signal City revamp

Check out Signal City, version 2.0!

Mini-illos!

Little piece about the Icelandic volcano and the air traffic re-routing.
There was a fire at Little Louis'! Not that I went there much, but combined with the building collapse last summer, Myrtle Ave Brooklyn seems like a dangerous place for buildings.

Incarnation by Mark Ryden

It's fun to see Mark Ryden at the easel but why do all time lapse videos have to have melancholy piano soundtracks?

New illos

Here are some new illustrations that came out recently:

Jean Renoir's "Toni," The New Yorker, April 12, 2010

"Toni" (1935) will be the first film in a five week retrospective of Jean Renoir's work. Check out some of my unused sketches here.

"On the Town: Boston," Go Magazine, April 2010

One of spots I did for Go Magazine! I did them awhile ago and had to resist posting until the issue came out. You can check out the rest of the spots here.