Well folks it’s been an eventful January with the great remodeling of CRG Studios! Every piece of furniture has been unmoored and rearranged, spiders and centipedes evicted, and flat files given a delightfully thorough spring cleaning in winter.
This means I have unburied some gems from the archives, and this Friday, February 1st at 12 noon (pacific time) I will be releasing a few select prints from the vaults. in the CRG Store I will have a few available of:
“Who’s Afraid of the Peppermint Man?”
“Becoming Animal”
Come early, to the CRG Store, as I only have a few of each one!!
I am currently working on a delicious illustrated cover for some my pals over at McSweeneys Publishing. Here are some sneak peeks of my process.
For this project I'm using watercolors on handmade watercolor paper. I have a few different watercolor sets, The bottom one is Japanese and the top one is German made. I've had the lil' one on top since high school! I can't bear to part with it, plus the quality is unparralelled. Vintage rules.
Dr. Ph Martin's inks can be very intense, so I water them down a bit. Yes, I love Philippes. I'm very sad this mustard jar is empty.
I do some rough sketches first on vellum paper, then finalize and transfer my sketch to the watercolor paper. I think this guy looks pretty good, real rubbery.
When I have my drawing transferred, I do the black areas in a waterproof ink first.
Then I lay in some watercolors in many thin layers, letting it dry in between. What's he baking?
I'm still working on this one, but when it's all done I'll post a little film of me working on it.
This year is shaping up to be an exciting one, many fun and varied projects taking me to San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and beyond! Come back and visit me soon, kay?
