art, artwork, and artshow info

I have been busily chugging away on art for a show coming up on May 2nd at Screen Ink in Lincoln NE. I am working on a series of watercolor illustrations based on sketches from the past few months. I like having fun and bright colors and dumb concepts, so many of these drawings are fun, bright, and/or dumb. It’s great! If you have followed my work over the past 5 years or so, you should kind of know what to kind of expect. If not, you are going to have fun too! Here’s a image that is pretty indicative of the direction of this show… spoiler alert: that do-nut guy is barfing a rainbow while throwing the devil horns. Other amazing artwork will include cute animals, insects, and weird people. Of course.

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I’m working on my 1%ers series too, I am having fun with it and should be able to release something soon. I goes like this: create concepts, create designs, created drawings, create prints, create paintings, create artifacts, have an art show. In between I might be able to release some prints or something. I feel like this will be compelling stuff and hope to secure gallery space later in the year. Here’s a W.I.P shot of a couple of pieces, or what may turn out to be studies. I’m not sure yet.

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My art collaboration with William Susman is going to be great. He contacted me about creating some unique isometric art for an upcoming album release- and it looks like it’s going to be really cool! Contemporary ensemble music fans : pay attention- this is cool stuff~

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In other news, Eyeskull Sticker Campaign is gearing up to release some kick-ass socks. Yeah, socks. We’ve teamed up with SockGuy to make some super comfy 100% Merino Wool performance socks. These socks are dreamy, breathe great, and since they are wool- they don’t hold stank. yeah bro, these socks will keep you ridin’ all day long.

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And in Killigans news- we went to Denver a couple weeks ago, and I created two of my favorite dumb posters for the trip, one for Grand Island, and one for Denver. Here’s the print version of the GI show:

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PUNK FUCKING ROCK DUDE – nothing says rock like a kitten face.

On websites: I am not unlike many people who become entrapped by insecurity when it comes to my “web presence” – am I updating enough? – is my website cool enough? – should I get a new theme? Etc… Ultimately though, I feel like the content is still #1. Organization and presentation are the keys here. Unfortunately – having a website that is ?? years old on a blog platform with ?? number of re-designs and reorganizations, things get crazy. This website has been used pretty much since 1996 in various forms, and it shows. I need to update my content! And so do you! Get updating people!

Life is hard, try to do good.

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