Tomorrow night is the opening reception/unveiling for "Swap Meet", a unique and unconventional gallery show at The Carnegie (located in Covington, KY ... reception 5-8 PM). Back in May, artists dropped off a previously unfinished works (of all mediums), and then each artist selected someone else's unfinished piece at random. Tomorrow night's "unveiling" will feature the finished works now being displayed.

I had the good fortune of being able to make a flipbook out of a small mini-book created and bound by my friend Holly Prochaska (Boiling Point Books). Initially I had planned to just make it a drawn flipbook, but even using a thick brush, the drawings were hard to read over the psychedelic paper. I decided instead to use cutouts for the primary objects (clouds, fingers, lightning bolt) while using ink things like the grass and flower stem. Of course, I can't wait to see what a fellow artist did with the piece I originally dropped off as well, and unfinished watercolor painting of some sort of robot-like thing.

Due to the limitations of the short number of pages & thickness of the paper stock, it has to be flipped pretty carefully when holding it (hence the little cheat sheet on the first page), so I wanted to film it as well.

Now available in the shop: a collection of twenty (20) whimsical postcards. They are standard-sized, matte postcards (the content of each card being quite hazardous in nature). Nestled together in a see through, vellum envelope that features an original "ink on envelope" ink drawing. Perfect for old-fashioned mail correspondence or general safekeeping!

Available for purchase here.

A quick experiment using watercolor directly on animation bond paper. As expected, it is quite a challenge to create a wash thin enough that it is not immediately cause the paper to curl up. Overall, though, it worked a lot better than I had anticipated.

Here is a collaborative new short film called "Earth!", which was made last month at a Floating Shape Workshop event. On the eve of Earth Day 2018, we set up shop at my good pal Tara's Robot Inside (in their beautiful new storefront location). This was a free public/community event, so any child who came by had the opportunity to contribute to the film.

All that was prepared beforehand was the traditional animation in the beginning, before the cutouts were added. We used a very quick & simple set up as we only had two hours of time. It was a different format for a workshop than I have done before, but I really think it turned out well. The majority of the materials used in the film were of recycled and/or scrap paper.