Category Archives: Portrait

Art Show // Carte De Visite

Posted on March 3, 2013 | 3 Comments

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 To celebrate their second anniversary, Gigantic Gallery is hosting a Carte De Visite show this Thursday, March 7th.

Used as a photographer’s calling cards in the mid 19th century, Carte De Visites were traditionally small photographs mounted on thicker paper, and became popular trading cards.  These days, you’ll usually find Carte De Visites in junk shops in file cabinets labeled “Instant Relatives”.

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Beatrice (back)

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For my own Carte De Visites, I revisited an old favorite smudgy medium, graphite on paper.  I also paid a little homage to a couple of creep-tastic artists, Edward Gorey and Stephen Gammell.  

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These three new pieces will be up at the Gigantic’s opening this first Thursday, along with a ton of small works by these artists:

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And while you’re galavanting about for first Thursday, stop by the Pony Club Gallery, where fellow member Keith Carter is hosting his solo show and doing some live-painting!

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Pony Club // Portraits Show

Posted on February 14, 2013 | 3 Comments

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Last Thursday was the re-opening of Pony Club Gallery, after a month of reorganizing and cleaning.  The gallery looked stupendous, featured a new mural painted by our six members, and we also debuted our new show, “Portraits”!

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The concept was simple: artists were paired up and tasked to paint or draw each other.  Some of us were couples, some friends, and some acquaintances.  The results were lovely, and our show featured some of the best artists in town!  Props to member Jennifer Parks for curating such a great show.

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I was delighted to be teamed up with my pal Brooke Weeber.  Before the show we refused to look at each other’s pieces – and we were pretty surprised by the results!

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Ok, ok – so I skipped about 1,000 steps there (sometimes it’s hard to remember to document the whole process), but what started out as a little doodle in my sketchbook turned into full-fledged Lady Warrior goodness.

What’s even better is that even though we didn’t see each other’s pieces until the opening, this happened:

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WE’RE BOTH WEARING SNAKE NECKTIES!!!  Ahhhhhhhhh!!

So awesome.

Be sure to check out the rest of the lovely portraits over at Pony Club’s facebook page, and then head on over to the Pony Club website.  We’ve got a new artist interview blog feature, and this month we’re featuring couples to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

SMOOTCHIE BOOTCHIES

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Lady Show // Home on the Page

Posted on July 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

Yesterday was the opening of a new show at Gigantic Gallery, featuring myself and many other lovely lady artists of the Pacific Northwest.  It was warm and sunny and I met some great folks.

Unfortunately, I forgot my friggin’ camera (like I keep doing, all the time), so I was left to document the evening with my fabulous phone.  I had to leave early so I missed out on meeting a few other artists; here’s hoping I’ll into you some other time.

And if you were a pal who stopped by, thanks for coming!

 

Brooke Weeber & Jacqueline Bos

Meg Hunt

Recent and new work.

Do yourself a favor and forget my crappy photos and go see the real thing.  Art is always better in person.

Also at Gigantic are prints of the originals as well as Wolf + Canoe prints!

My comics and prints are slowly finding homes on various retail shelves around Portland.  I have a lot of stuff currently for sale at Mag-Big and my comic will soon be sold at Land in NE Portland.  Support your local shops, yall.  And me.  Don’t forget about me.

Also, I decided it was nigh time for a new self portrait.  Hello.

Have a super weekend!

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Experiments // Neil Young

Posted on May 21, 2012 | 2 Comments

Sometimes you get a little wild hair and you want to try something new and so you break out your inks and start drawing an illustration of Neil Young.

And then sometimes you scan in the linework just in case, because you’re about to paint on it, and since you’re experimenting you could probably mess it all up.

And sometimes you paint a on a drawing and you’re like, “Ah F**K!” because it looks pretty crappy, and you get mad and you want to tear it into a million pieces, but sometimes you keep working on it anyway.

So, sometimes, when you still hate the original drawing, you scan it into to Photoshop and and digitalize to death until maybe, MAYBE, you kinda sorta like it.

So that’s what happened with this drawing.

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Happy Birthday, Kurt!

Posted on May 3, 2012 | Leave a comment

Yesterday I gathered with Jake’s family to help celebrate the birthday of his dad, Kurt Hollomon.  Kurt is an Illustration professor at PNCA and a seriously talented sketchbook junkie.  He was also my teacher while I was at PNCA, long before I ever met Jake.  Life is funny that way.

Kurt could probably draw both Jake and I under the table, no problem.  Visit Kurt’s blog for a glimpse at his sketchbook.  And to see how the apple didn’t fall far from the tree, like, AT ALL – take a gander at Jake’s own sketchbook.

You can also watch this great profile video of Kurt (edited by our buddy Chris Bodven) and read this special feature on Mister Mort’s blog.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KURT!

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Marrow Magazine

Posted on February 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

Ryan of Portland-centric online magazine, Marrow Mag, was kind enough to feature Jake & I at our home and in the studio.

Ryan is a pretty swell dude and we found we shared more than a few common interests.  He took a ton of photos with both digital and analog film, and he promises another feature or two to come.  Check out the post here!

Have a lovely weekend, everyone.  Cheers!

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Purple Boots

Posted on January 30, 2012 | Leave a comment

With the work for my show complete, I can work on other things I like to draw, like my ongoing Portland People series.

I spotted this feller taking a jaunty stroll down SE 20th Ave sometime last week.  I gaped as long as I could without colliding into the car ahead of me, then squeezed my eyes tight to further facilitate memorization.  Later, though, when recalling the memory, I had no problem remembering his purple, strappy, knee high boots that I can only describe as TMNT foot soldier gear.

See the rest of the series here.

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Portland People | Heels

Posted on December 2, 2011 | 1 Comment


I spotted this young lady walking down Holgate Boulevard, luggage in tow, teetering down the sidewalk in impressively high heels.

For me, I prefer stocking shoes that are low-heeled, rugged, good for riding, and are comfortable enough for long standing hours, as I can clock some serious miles at my night job.  So I’m always fascinated by shoes that are nice to look at but are generally pretty impractical.

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From the Desk: December 1st, 2011

Posted on December 1, 2011 | 3 Comments

(No Photoshop! See previous disaster.)

So, two things I haven’t done in forever:

1) Posted a From the Desk feature.  I’ve honestly done more drawing lately than surfing the web, but nonetheless, here’s a fresh crop of artsy links for you!

2) Drawn some old-fashioned people illustrations.  My pages have been filling with weirdo psychedelic skulls and comics and flowers and cats, but last night I just wanted to draw some people.

Portland (Southeast in particular) always has some really great people-watching.  There’s a whole slew of interesting characters to draw from, and the two folks you see above are some that stuck in my memory.

On to the links!

I’ve been discovering so many great artists here in Portland, including:

Brooke Weeber of Little Bird Big City

The wonderful illustrations of Meg Hunt.

And the dreamy drawings of Chuck Groenink.

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I’ve also done a couple art trades recently, and was lucky enough to trade for a cozy pair of wristworms by Berlin artist Sandra Juto.  (Check out her blog for her “food memories” posts; this ain’t your typically boring food photos, that shit will make you drool.)

I also got to do an art comics trade with San Franciscan Roman Muradov.  Yeahhhh art trades!

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I am totally putting this zine of hearts, hands, and eyes on my wish list.

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These hand-made paper puppets are incredibly charming and make for Etsy feeding frenzies.

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Artists re-draw their old childhood scribbles – oh man what a great idea!  Makes me wish I still had some of my old doodles.

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Salvador Dali for Alice in Wonderland?  Yeah.

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Dude did you know that a band member of Portland’s own Red Fang worked in  Laika’s puppet department?  He was lucky enough to work on Coraline and on their upcoming film, Paranorman.  Metal + Puppets!

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This woolen, handmade skeleton with organs is so cool.

Sweet.  There you have it.  Happy clicking.

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Lemolo | Hand-Lettering & Portraiture

Posted on November 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

As the site-build continues for Lemolo Baggage, I put together my own handmade contributions by lettering site headers  & drawing Eli’s handsome mug (and faithful pup Louis).

 

These are the raw images, which will be edited down by Jake, refined, and made to look fancier for the site.  However, it should be noted that Eli looks GQ and fancy without any editing.

We are super excited to launch the site – and when that finally happens, I’ll be sharing those results right here.

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