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The story here begins, like, 13 or 14 years ago. This was just something I used to sketch on occasion, and was, I think, the logo for a band I was in way back when. Or maybe I’m not remembering that correctly. Whatever. So then a couple of days ago I was thinking about bird feeders for who knows what reason and suddenly realized that this would be an AMAZING bird house that would almost certainly get me in trouble with someone or other. Naturally, I went to a hardware store and a craft store to see what I could find to construct it. Long story short, I was able to make a miniature version with heads 3″ in diameter. If anyone knows how to make bigger hollow spheres (6 inch, maybe? 8inch? whatever) that can withstand being outside year round and provide pleasing homes for birds, please let me know.

Here are some robots I drew the week before last. A couple of them are up at the Splash Gallery in Olympia, with a bunch of my other stuffs for the next week or so.

They are all 11″x14″ ink and India ink on bristol.

So- I’m the featured artist or some such thing over at Splash Gallery, here in Olympia, down by Percival Landing.

Pretty neat! People should come by some time or times in the next couple of weeks, including this Saturday, when I’ll be there from 4-6pm, with some foodstuffs and probably a pen and paper! I’ve got a number of different pieces up at the gallery, including my Thurston County History Cards, my various books, some paintings and drawings, my HUGE plywood Bathos, and the Cull Wood Army, a new thing I did where I made an army out of scrap 2x4s from the Home Depot:

I inked and finished this piece a week or two ago, though I did the lion’s share of the pencils a month or two back. 

India ink and ink wash on 11″x 14″ bristol. I’m really pleased with how he came out- though I’m not sure what to do with him. Any tattoo parlors interested in showing him?

The savvy may recognize the brute from a collection / poster I did last year, The Boy’s Club Association of Villainy.

The original Brute art is one of the few pieces of my own I have hanging in my house and it was fun to visit him again. The Boy’s Club is available as a poster print for anyone interested. It’ll almost certainly be available for most of the month of March at the Splash Gallery in Olympia, where I’ll be the featured guest artist or something for a few weeks, starting a week from today. Keep an eye out for that as there will be a reception and everything. Anyhow, there you go.