for heavy rotation:

10. Bombay Bicycle Club
A Different Kind Of Fix
Island Records

09. Chapel Club
Palace
Polydor Records

08. Memory Tapes
Player Piano
Carpark

07. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Belong
Slumberland Records

06. The Sound of Arrows
Voyage
Skies Above

05. Mitch Murder
Current Events
Rosso Corsa Records

04. Washed Out
Within and Without
Sub Pop

03. M83
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
Naïve

02. Active Child
You Are All I See
Vagrant Records

01. Junior Boys
It’s All True
Domino Records

First scan of the year

ink: Copic Multiliner SP .01
scanner: Epson Perfection V500 Photo
color mode: grayscale
dpi: 1200

circa 2009. composite of 6 smaller drawings, composed in Photoshop, colors by Letraset Tria

Took some photos of my sketchbook before sending it off

We just accumulate

I started this piece while visiting my dad in the hospital last fall. I had just started using ALVIN® TechLiner Technical Drawing Markers (0.1mm). I picked the pen up on a whim at ASW. I was immediately impressed with how well the pen worked. Not bad for $2.02. I was also listening to Joe Jackson and Kate Bush a lot around this time. I like the bit in his song “back to my hometown” where he sings about never leaving the past behind and how we just accumulate – and how as adults we end up with piles of bills, receipts and credit cards, and this longing to go back to the past creeps in, but everything has changed.

I scanned the completed original and made some prints on my 3880. A few months later I cut the original piece into several smaller 5″ x 5″ squares for two of my submissions for the Catalyst Boxcarts show. The rest of the original drawing was either discarded, or if the scrap was large enough or worth recycling in a future piece, I saved it.