NEW DRAWINGS

I have begun to post the latest drawings from my current collection "Beauty Book".
My aim is to finish a book filled with my most meticulously detailed work to date.
I started this book while I was on tour with Ghastly City Sleep... we were out for 32 days, and travelled all around the continental United States.
One of the things that struck me most was the vegetation in California! We visited the beaches in Los Angeles & San Luis Obispo, and I couldn't believe the diversity of the costal plant life, what a change from the East Coast.
I started sketching bits and pieces of plants here and there, and spent a lot of time drawing details while sitting at bars in music venues before performing.
The result is this collection, which is still ongoing.

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New Limited Edition Print

Hello!

I am back from touring the United States with Ghastly City Sleep. I had an amazing trip and will be posting about that soon.
First I wanted to tell you about a new print I have available on my etsy store just in time for the holidays.
I just finished a brand new Linoleum Block Cut of an Octopus with leafy tentacles. Each print is treated with a hand-painted watercolor wash in either flesh tint or Ocre Yellow before printing. The Octupus is printed in a dark red-brown.


I am limiting these to 50 copies, and each one is signed and numbered by yours truly.

These prints can be purchased from my etsy store

happy holidays & check back soon for tour pictures!

♥matt

The L.A. Job

From Los Angeles

Well, we finished installing "All Molecules Light as Air" at iolo headquarters in Los Angeles, CA. Everything went smooth and was a lot of fun! I'd like ot say thank you to Dan, Noah, Roxanne, Andrew, Tim at Designer Framing, and Leila♥

From Los Angeles

Photos from the whole trip can be viewed here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/utieshell/LosAngeles#

Final !

All Molecules Light as Air, Oil on Canvas Diptych, 120 in x 60 in (2008)

Here's a look at the Iolo Commission in it's final state before shipping.

L.A. Comission

Another update on the L.A. Comission. The piece is almost complete.
Here are some images:

Arts

I have been working on a big commission for Iolo in Los Angeles for the past two months.
The work will be a total of ten feet by five feet, covering two canvases, mounted on a sixteen-foot wide wall.

I'm really excited about how this has evolved - i started with a grid and began to lay out my "shifting panels" layers, developing a degree of transparency and evoking movement.





now, out of a seam in the diagonal axis of the composition, comes a flood of life at different scales, mingling with old eroded architectural elements and buildings.
When this is complete it should read in a number of ways, one of which could be that this giant mass of organic life and buildings is actually one large living organism itself, camouflaged by matching colors to a very rigid orthogonal grid...

new

I just finished a new Coney Island copper bracelet design.
Plus three more unique designs.
More pics at dominant fiction...

available for purchase at my etsy store:
arbor9fiction.etsy.com

In the Works

I have begun hand-engraving copper bracelets with my illustrations.
I am offering these pieces for sale in my etsy store.

I make them one-by-one, so it takes a little while for new ones to show up.
I am engraving on three different sizes:
3/4" wide, 1/2", & 3/8"

I have also placed a few prints on the site as well.
for the complete list of my drawings available in prints, please visit the dominant fiction store - we just gave it a new makeover!
arbor9fiction.etsy.com
dominantfiction store

♥m

Touring! Part 1

I recently returned from a two-week tour with the band I'm in , Ghastly City Sleep.
We took a ton of photos and video, but most of it was lost, swallowed by the computer-crash deities.

I have some stories to tell, and images to post, but for now, take a look at all the polaroids i snapped! Thanks to Leila for buying me tons of film before the trip!♥
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/25069116@N02/sets/72157604271882036/

enjoy!

ART SHOW SATURDAY

i have contributed 3 new oil paintings to the "Found in Brooklyn" art exhibit at
Freddy's Bar and Backroom
485 Dean St. (@6th ave)
Brooklyn, NY

The opening is this saturday, 7-9pm

Here's a link to the host, Found In Brooklyn blog!

It's just southeast of the Atlantic Ave Station, just off Flatbush Ave...
I'm pretty excited. I have a number of projects on the horizon, including some marketing of new dominant fiction goods handmade by yours truly.
been working on the website here and there, adding new drawings and paintings..
and most importantly, i've been making a lot of new work. by this time next year, i should have a whole new world of work which has been stewing for the past two years.