lots of stuff

I haven't properly updated the blog in awhile... I've been in the studio trying to get some drawing done, but little odds and ends have come up, so this is my blog post about a whole bunch of little things...

Ok, the first thing is that I did bit of work for a charity in NYC called RxArt... It puts together and distributes colouring books for sick children made by a selection of contemporary artists... Below are my contributions, I had a really hard time with them because I wanted enough detail so the drawings were sort of interesting, but not enough detail to make colouring them very difficult for the children... This is what I came up with...

Ok, the next thing is that I have an intern for the summer, his name is Patrick Krzyzanowski, he's a really nice guy and a good artist.... He'll be around all summer, and I'll post some of his work on here soon... We found out he's a BMX biker, so on lunch last week Andrew and I got him do tricks in the parking lot...

Then we realized it would look cooler if he was wearing some sort of costume, so we gave him a mask, and then gave him a hazmat suit to wear over top... Then he hurt his ankle because he couldn't see what he was doing, so we let him stop...

I think Andrew got jealous that there was a new assistant and that he was getting all of the attention with his fancy bike tricks, because then Andrew grabbed Patricks bike and was all like: "Look at me Nick! I can do tricks too!" but all he was doing was riding really slow and looking at me and pumping his fist in the air... it was weird and uncomfortable so we took a photo so he'd feel included....


Hmmm, what else? Oh, These are two of my closest friends, Matt and Aaron:

Matt is the guy getting tattooed, and Aaron is the one doing the tattooing. Matt and I grew up together, and the three of us used to live together and have studios together... Anyway, Aaron is an amazing artist, when it comes to both tattooing and stuff on paper. He just set up his own website, you should check it out...

www.aarontattoos.com

Ok, um... whatelse? Oh, I am in a new book that has recently been released...


Its called Beyond Illustration, and its a pretty nice selection of artists in one book... Here is the banner that the publisher sent out... If you see it in a store somewhere, check it out... Just please don't read my little blurb on "the difference between art and illustration". After reading it, I thought to myself, how can I manage to run my own small business, but still come off as such a colossal idiot at times...


Ok, um, the next thing is an interview that I did a really really long time ago, back in 2003... I think it is actually my first or second interview I've ever done. In it I mention a show that I am working on, which was actually my first solo show... Anyway, the site was recently relaunched, and I had a good time reading it over because its so old... Some parts of totally cringe-worthy, and at one point I actually say: "I hate school." Oh boy. Anyway, you can read the interview here.


Um, the last thing is my newish Road of Knives page... here it is, I tried to go for sadness, sort of... You can check out all the action here.


Um, ok, one more thing... My girlfriend Jamiyla just finished a new screenprint, here it is... You can check out her blog here.

Ok, thats a lot of stuff... bye!