Daejeon is conveniently located in what used to be the Baekje Kingdom. During the Three Kingdom’s period of Korea–before Korea was a unified country–from roughly 55BC to 668AD. Baekje, Goguryeo and Silla fought and shifted borders, and at one time throughout the 700 year period, each one controlled a large Read more…
On Sunday, Stephanie and I headed out to Songnisan National Park. Songnisan is a little ways north of Daejeon, and it is quite famous in the summer months. However, in the winter months, it is snowy and quaint. The little town outside the park entrance was sleepy, but full of Read more…
In early January, I made a terrible mistake and put an untrustworthy water bottle into the bag where I kept my sketchbook. In the dead of winter, at one of the hardest points in my Korean year, I doused all my art, and blank sketchbook pages in weak tea. Read more…
Since I didn’t make any resolutions for Solar New Year (epic fail), I figured I might as well make some for Lunar New Year, or Seolnal, which was this weekend. One of those resolutions is to be better about blogging, so here we go. We had Monday off, and Stephanie Read more…
One of the main things I did in Korea to keep myself sane was draw. It was almost a meditative practice, but it became absolutely essential that I gave myself time to do two things: listen to English TV, and draw. This is another low quality scan, unfortunately, but someday Read more…
A more playful image this time, but I don’t particularly like the color choices I made. Wild hair and enormous headphones. For a while I believe that characterized me amidst the other foreigners in Korea.
Print and Card available on Fine Art America. “You can’t stop this” is yet another one of my favorites, a more courageous verison of “You go Forward”, as it were. This was a few months into my sojourn as a teacher in Korea, and all the intricacies of the image Read more…
This is the first time I really tried to build an image around text and only text. I remained in black and white, and focused on the simple things.
I was in the process of this image as I was moving to Korea. That describes the text and the forward motion of the image right away. I had nowhere to go but onward, regardless of whether or not I thought that was a good idea. This is a pretty Read more…
Corning, NY: December 2007, Summer 2008 and 2009
Minneapolis / Saint Paul Minneapolis and Saint Paul have been my home cities for over ten years now. Known as the Twin Cities, they have dueling personalities–just as I do. Minneapolis, a bright and boisterous cultural center–full of new immigrants with vibrant communities–sits just across the river from Saint Paul, Read more…
Print Available on Imagekind. With this image, I took a very different approach than I usually did. First and foremost, I envisioned an image that was one solid concept, rather than a conglomeration of chaotic concepts. Second, I stuck to one set of colors, unlike my usual wide array. Like Read more…
Print available on Imagekind. This image began particularly as another experiment with trees, but it morphed into a pun on a well revered novel (by a well revered Minnesota author to boot.) I was also doing some playing with the markers to see how mixing them made an effect, and Read more…
Print Available on Imagekind. For “The Roots of Happiness” I kind of unintentionally started a trend of adding more meaningful, logical words to my images. This image started with the desire to draw a tree, and spread into something a bit more. Text reads: “The roots of happiness grow from Read more…
Inspired by henna designs and the interplay between geometry, flowers and faces…
Veiled figures, cities underneath veils, veils concealing cities….
Print Available on Fine Art America. This image is, to this day, one of my favorite in all the cityscapes I have ever drawn. The first goal of this image was to try taking up the whole page, after some friends suggested that my work was not “wall-hangable” for its Read more…
Print Available on Imagekind. “I am Complicated” was originally one of the very first images that I started. However, it wasn’t working out properly for quite some time, and I waited several months before completing it. It includes many of the same motifs as usual, and I didn’t try anything Read more…
One of my primary interests in the first images was depicting the cityscapes…