Studio Night Last Night: Making Maps

I spent last night finishing up a commission for the Brooks Museum as part of the Summer of Cloar - a sketch map! I love sketching maps! This was really more of an illustration, but that's really what sketch maps are. Here are a couple of them that I made for trips. I'll post the one for the Brooks after they use it!

 London

Santo Domingo

Oh Hi.

Oops, I've been away a bit. There's been a lot of life going on lately, including family in the hospital (out now and much better), and a family reunion! More on the family reunion to come. Here's a little sketch I did while visiting at the hospital, mostly in the dark.

Follow Friday: Mary Jo Karimnia

Artist and fellow sketcher Mary Jo Karimnia put together a show that opens tonight at the Rozelle Warehouse (822 Rozelle, Memphis) at 6:00 PM. It's called Unchained and the description for it is below this image of Mary Jo's work from a recent exhibit, Overwhelming Captivations. 

Check out Mary Jo's work!

Unchained: a Memphis Art Chain Letter Exhibition
There is so much great Art Energy in Memphis lately with giant shows like Present Tense and Memphis Social, burgeoning arts districts like Broad Ave and the up and coming Crosstown and new galleries popping up everywhere – from commercial spaces to living rooms. There is also some great grassroots inclusiveness with shows like The Epic Unicorn Show and Hanging Participles. 

In an effort to keep this great Art Energy flowing we are hosting Unchained: a Memphis Art Chain Letter Exhibition.

In an attempt at random curation Mary Jo Karimnia sent out an Art Chain Letter asking one artist to participate in a show, an artist whose work she was interested in but someone with whom she had never had coffee. This artist sent the Chain Letter on, inviting the next artist, and so on for a total of 12 artists in the chain. The result is this one night show at Rozelle Warehouse. Come and see who was willing to appease the Art Muses by not breaking the chain.

Artists include:
Mary Jo Karimnia
Cedar Lorca Nordbye
Michael Joseph Flanagan
Jamie Harmon
C Michael Andrews
Friedrich Kerksieck

Las Maletas

Dibujé unas maletas a Cleveland Street Flea Market con Urban Sketchers Memphis.

(I drew some suitcases at Cleveland Street Flea Market with Urban Sketchers Memphis.
I don't know past tense yet, so while I know "dibujo" for "I draw" and "dibujando" for "drawing," I had to look up the past tense.
I'm working on it.)

Garden Sketching

A couple of Saturdays ago I was invited to sketch in a beautiful backyard garden. I could have spent all day trying to decide what to sketch, but I was attracted to this tree and its treehouse.

Memphis Monday: East Memphis Office Buildings

As I've said before I work in East Memphis and therefore spend a lot of time there, and as I've said before the architecture can get a bit zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. But it's my job to make it more interesting, right? Here are a couple of attempts to do that.

Waiting for a Pizza

Don't you love Friday nights? Last Friday night, after a late-afternoon nap, I went to Little Italy to pick up a delicious pizza. I made this sketch of the houses that now house businesses on Union Ave. That's ANF Architects straight ahead.

I'm using a new sketchbook - a Hand Book Artist Journal. It's nice but it has those rounded corners that it's hard to do anything about when scanning.