Sketches at Laity Lodge, Leakey,TX



I put the finishing touches on a few paintings/assemblages this weekend/week:

A labyrinthine prayer from Carmina Gadelica
“…Carmina Gadelica is a compendium of prayers, hymns, charms, incantations, blessings, literary-folkloric poems and songs, proverbs, lexical items, historical anecdotes, natural history observations, and miscellaneous lore gathered in the Gaelic-speaking regions of Scotland between 1860 and 1909. The material was recorded, translated, and reworked by the exciseman and folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832–1912).…”

My hands had a small cameo in a film where I drew the Cameo Theater, which was the theater in which audiences saw the film’s debut. A cameo of the Cameo in the Cameo.
Cameo Theater, by Paul Soupiset, part of a title sequence of a 48 Hour Film Project by SimpleMan Productions, Jonathan Zitelman Director, 2010.

In 2008, Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw released Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals, a book for which I contributed 40 or so watercolor illustrations. Here are a few of the interior images.


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I’m working on a new tattoo design (not shown here), but it led me to go find these old ones and post them. The weird thing about art for bodies: sometimes the artist does a great job; sometimes they butcher it; sometimes the recipient decides not to get it inked, and the art quietly goes away. This first one here, I’m really impressed by the fidelity of the artist.
It also has a great story behind it. Read it here at Jake Bouma’s blog.

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My Advent 2012 sketchbook, “Sometimes My Life Winds Like Bézier Curves,” is part of the library at The Sketchbook Project in Brooklyn, New York. You can view the whole book at your leisure here, or check it out in person, next time you’re in the City.