05Oct

Tilling the fallow field

The rains started this week, and so did Inktober, and art. I’m learning to accept the fact that I don’t really make new art in the summer. Summers are full of gigs and gardening and house projects, festivals and yard parties. In a perfect world I’d still have time for art, but having to work […]
26Sep

SPSCC Campus Maps

Earlier this year I did a map project for South Puget Sound Community College. The maps I made have been available on their website since spring, but the new wayfinding kiosks and monuments were just installed in the last few weeks. It’s always fun to see my work out in the wild! Maps are fascinating. […]
  • On 2018-09-26
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  • illustration, illustrator, maps, vector art
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09Aug

It’s all in the packaging

I planted a vegetable garden in my front yard this year, and it’s been lovely. The beans are thriving in the unusual Northwest heat, I’m about to have more tomatoes than I know what to do with, and the squash seedling that had been nibbled down to a nub by passing deer has pretty well […]
26Jul

John Doyle

I’ve been more busy gardening and performing than making art, and I entirely forgot about this sketch from John Doyle’s concert a month ago.
03Jun

April Verch Trio

I saw The April Verch Band (April Verch, Cody Walters, and Alex Rubin) in May, and as well as the delightful music I got two sketches I’m quite pleased with, in very different styles. That’s an electric stand-up bass, not a normal bass I ran out of room for. I promise. I had fun trying to […]
  • On 2018-06-03
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  • Alex Rubin, April Verch, crayon, pen and ink
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02Jun

Skellington Art has a Facebook page!

From now on, this blog will be mirrored to the Skellington Art page rather than my personal page (and then I’ll share it willy-nilly from there). For now, the facebook page graphic is one of the unfinished and unsold Sheep in Space paintings. I’ll be uploading all the old (finished and mostly sold) Sheep In […]
15May

Three bands, four sketches.

A few weekends ago I went to see my friends Curlew’s Call perform, and I drew a truly horrible sketch of them. It made me think about what I’d post on this blog. I’m happy to share my sketches and art process warts-and-all, but I’ve decided to draw the line at sharing things that make […]
  • On 2018-05-15
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  • crayon, Derek Gripper, musicians, Open the Door for Three, pen and ink, pencil, Tannahill Weavers
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06Apr

Brave Horatio on the move

A fun little project I completed awhile back has finally seen the light of day. My parents have been eagerly awaiting their new teardrop trailer from Oregon Trail’R for over a year, and they’d named it before they’d even made the down payment. I designed the name decal, with a gentle arc and a font that […]
  • On 2018-04-06
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  • Oregon Trail'R, typography, vehicles
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20Mar

Spring, sprung

I’m a fair-weather gardener. I basically ignore my back yard all through the wet, dark winter. I’m always a bit nervous when I venture out for the first time in spring, blinking like a mole and stunned by all the work there is to do. What survived the winter? What is showing new growth, and […]
  • On 2018-03-20
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  • gardening, Pacific Northwest native plants
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12Jan

What I’ve been up to while off the radar

I fell off the blogging train in late October. I was mostly working on holiday gift art, so I couldn’t share my in-progress pictures. Those projects are no longer secret, and might get a post in the future. Today I want to share a project from my day-job. The sixth-and-final van wrap for Timberland Regional […]