Can you share a bit about the piece and how you conceived of it:
I was playing around with the idea that we all have our own distinct work flow and that no two artists or designers work in exactly the same way. It is the differences in our execution of design problems that makes our work truly unique.
What’s your creative process when producing a piece of art?
My best work comes from little ideas, words, phrases, general things. I like to tinker around with a pencil, micron pen, mouse, wacom tablet, scanner, camera, color swatches, India ink etc… I try not to stick to one approach, although I am currently quite fond of patterns, colors and altering the transparency of design elements.
Could you share an image of one of your latest sketches?
Why not?
Would you share three unique things in your workspace that inspire you?
My large ceramic bunny.
My Dutch Painting (I like to pretend its my great-granny).
And the Chooch.
What’s the art scene like where you live?
Classy.
What art is hanging on your walls at the moment?
My current favorites are two paint by numbers of glorious hunting dogs.
What are you really into right now?
Pieter Brugel paintings, canned wheat gluten, wikimedia commons, digital photography tutorials, layer masks and river otters.
What would be on your quintessential mixtape?
T-Rex, Beirut, Will Oldham, Donovan, Jens Lekman, Neil Diamond, Final Fantasy, The Miracles, Vashti Bunyan, The Velvet Underground, Gene Pitney, Jonathan Richman, Joanna Newsom, The Kinks, The Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, Devendra Banhart, Bobby Gentry
What do you have as your desktop wallpaper?
Laptop: Some weird John James Audubon ducks
Work: Dual monitor painting of Venetian Canals by Bernardo Bellotto
Home: Macro photo of a fuzzy lavender plant
What are your vices/guilty pleasures?
Miller High Life, Jo Jo’s.
What’s the first picture you can remember drawing as a child?
I recently found a pretty cool drawing of a colony of giants in a land of snow capped mountains.
If you were a dinosaur, what kind would you be and why?
I did some research and according to “thebestdinosaur.com”: http://www.thebestdinosaur.com the Stegosaurus is the best dinosaur.
If you had to change careers, what would be next?
I would like to do mechanical schematics – the exploded ones where nuts and bolts are flying in mid air to demonstrate what the machine would look like under very strange conditions. I have always admired these technical illustrations.
What’s your motto?
“Take a black cat and sit it on your shoulder and in the morning you’ll know all you know.”
