Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Aquarium


While taking in a couple It's Always Sunny in Philedelphia's at 1am I came up with this image which reminds me of a shop in Japan which had a clean glass bowl full of tiny orange and red fishes.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

I Overflowed

The quote "I Overflowed" is taken from a Rilke quote "Insatiably I drank, but I was filled already with too much, and as I drank I overflowed." I haven't quite figured out how to integrate text into these, yet. SOLD

Friday, October 24, 2008

The Common Review


Again, another work in progress, this is supposed to be James Joyce's pen name "Stephen Dedalus" filling out a college application, and might i add he is quite smug.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Razor(s) in a Jar


I made one of these for my friend Ted McGrath in Brooklyn who did the cover of American Illustration something book this year which is a big deal.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Shirts and Shoppe

We have had these shirts made for a billion years (yes, since the dinosaurs) but I have not been successful in letting people know they exist.
When I say "we" I mean me mum who sells them through her bike shoppe. They can be purchased here.

I also opened an Etsy store (damarakdestroy.etsy.com), what a world!

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Young Livers/Attack Vipers Split


This is the beginning of a split I'm working on. It's a giant 18 inch print that is impossible to get a good print from using my floor and my feets.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Mermaid Lady

Finsihed! This image is a one of a kind, 13" x 18.5", made from collaged relief prints and the background is drawn in colored pencil.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Gates of Dawn #6



Portfolio



Someone in NYC requested a portfolio and I managed to whip this hand bound book up in a day from scraps I have laying around. I certainly miss binding books but it is the passion of a Luddite.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Banners #2



"I was leaking, my insides couldn't be contained by my skin."

Razor work in progress


Not sure what I want to write in these blades yet so I've started with a Tom Waits quote "Lay your hand where my heart used to be." We will see.

ghostface

SOLD

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Monday, May 26, 2008

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Dieu Donne Paper Sky


I'm doing/have done a benefit piece for the lovely folks at Dieu Donne Papermill in NYC where I worked as an intern in 2003/04 sloshing paper pulp around. They recommended me for my first 2 jobs as an artist assistant, a career I can't seem to shake. The unveiling is set for June 6th and I'll be on the Right Coast for the occasion and a duet show the same night with Sara Martin. After all that madness, summertime.

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Red Sky #1

It's taken me a long time to do this piece but I managed to finish it last night while watching Grindhouse Planet Terror.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Gates of Dawn #1

There was a beautiful chapel in Vilnius Lithuania called the Gates of Dawn, which was as epic as it's title. The walls were heavily covered with tin(?) hearts, arms, legs, and crowns, some engraved with names of the departed. It was quite a site and I was suprised to find there are no good photo's anywhere of the chapel. So I've done my own version of it and restrained from putting in guns.

Friday, April 11, 2008

PR Machine


I woke up at 2am to finish this image for Time Out Chicago this morning and go to work.
I think I'll be able to sleep sometime in the middle of next week.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Naughty Betty 1



I haven't posted anything new for a while because I have been doing drafts for the card company Naughty Betty Inc.
which is right up my alley. Here is an uncolored frame and crest design which they will incorporate whitty text into. I am going to Poland for 3 days in a couple hours and am very excited despite an 9 hour bus ride and 3 hour train ride to Krakow.

Friday, March 21, 2008

yellow-paint

I've decided to participate in yellow-paint to hopefully stick my illustrations under the noses of more art directors. After changing my mind on the images a million times I settled on these two in addition to redoing the snake on the woman's arm, something that has bottered me since I created the image. ALSO I am going to Lithuania for 2 weeks on Monday in an effort to have some leisure (we will see).