New GULU-GULU CAFE T-Shirts

Thanks to Steve & Marie Feldmann @ Gulu-Gulu Cafe in Salem for hiring me to design some shirts featuring their Pug, Charlie, and Boston Terrier, Jack

Mister Reusch "Monster Drawing" : Orange Skeleton, 7 Minute Pose

Mister Reusch Monster Drawing: "Orange Reaper", 13 minute pose.

Since 2006 I've been running "Monster Drawing" sessions at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, where instead of a nude model, life-drawing students draw a real, live MONSTER. I play guitar for 2 hours in homemade monster masks & costumes, with my eyes closed because I can't see my hands and the sweat stings my eyeballs. I'm self-taught & play by ear, so there are always mistakes, but it's fun! Sheila recorded me so that non-MassArt folks can do Monster Drawing from their own homes, watching on their computers. Amazing former student Anthony Feliciano already posted his Monster Drawing, shown here

UNBORED Available for Pre-Order!

UNBORED , the book I worked on for over a year, is now available for pre-order!
Here are a couple photos of the mock-up & proofs that amazing designer Anthony Leone shared with me:

Long time, no posts. I've finally finished a ton of illustrations for a children's book project I started working on over a year ago. The book comes out this November from Bloomsbury, and I owe designer Tony Leone and author Josh Glenn a huge thank you for hiring me.



This new 12" x 16" painting was my submission to the group show, "Year of the Dragon" at FOE, 28 Pleasant Street, Northampton, MA. Thanks to FOE's Nicole Shea for inviting me to participate. The opening reception is Friday night, March 9th.

REAPER SEASONAL SERIES
New 18" x 24" acrylic, luminous, and fluorescent paintings on canvas, now hanging @ Gulu Gulu in Salem:
"Autumn" with chipmunk:


"Winter" with female cardinals & red squirrels:


"Spring" with butterflies & gray squirrel:


"Summer" with bats, woodchuck, & fireflies:

End of Summer Updatey
Wicked long time, no posts! I have been drawing my head off all spring & summer for a children's book art directed by my old friend, Anthony Leone. The finished product is going to have hundreds of illustrations in it.

Part of my ongoing "Year of the Dead" project is going up on the walls of Gulu Gulu Cafe this September. Here's a sneak peek at 4 of 8 new 18" x 24"s I've been working on:




The paintings will be up from September 4th until October 18th, with an opening reception Thursday night, September 15th, starting at 7pm with live music by Wisteriax. Gulu Gulu is at 247 Essex Street, Salem, MA.

I made J. Cannibal's newest Feast of Flesh poster:


and am still working on commissions. This recently-completed commission shows a family attacked by the zombies from their tv:

Thanks for the fun assignment, Jeremy!!

New stuff coming very soon: the Coolidge Corner Theatre's Halloween Horror Movie poster, Coolidge @fter Midnite T-shirt design, and more commissioned paintings

Some New Stuff
Long time, no updatey! My broken right hand is healed up, & I've been trying hard to catch up with commissions I owe clients. And my good friend Tony Leone from MassArt has hired me to create between 200-300 illustrations for a cool book he's designing! Things are busybusybusy. I'm still unpacking in the new apartment & getting back on track after moving 3 times at the end of 2010, but things are awesome.

Call for Artists flyer for Mass Market 8, featuring Mr. Giles, the one-eyed bandit:


Mass Market 8 Poster:


acrylic painting on canvas (minus the text) for my old upstairs neighbors, Lauren & Jon, that they'll be using as "Save the Date" magnets for their upcoming wedding:


detail:


detail:


Commissioned portrait of Riggsi:


I posted excerpts from sketchbook # 58 on my sketchbook blog:


This semester I've been teaching a new course @ MassArt combining mask-making with illustration assignments, and am really impressed with the work the students have been doing:

Lots of photos of their projects are here:


The class's final assignment is a Day-of-the-Dead self-portrait puppet photo-illustration. Here's the head for mine I did as a demo:


5 outstanding MassArt seniors named Cherry Au, Ivan Cheung, Amanda Lo, Jill Lydon, & Carly Menasco put on a really fun exhibit called "the Cute Show" featuring personal drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. I painted them little "CONGRATULATIONS!!!!" cards for the opening reception:

the interiors:

Speaking of cute, Frankensteiny recovered from 2 lump removal surgeries (both benign), one on his leg, and one on his inner eyelid that required very intricate stitches:

He was his usual spazzy self within a day of the surgeries. And Mr. Giles luckily healed up fast after scratching his cornea:

I'm going to try to post way more often from now on!