Face-In-Hole

Earlier this week I got a last-minute commission from the Portland office of Yelp.com to paint them a portable face-in-hole board (no, there doesn't seem to be a better term for that) that they could carry around Portland's Holiday Ale Fest. They're posting all the results on Facebook, and here's one of my favorites so far:

I'll be at the fest myself this evening, so come get your picture taken with me! Just make sure you put your whole face through the hole, or won't come out very good.

(acrylic on foam core, 37.5"x28")

Birthday Card for Maria Montoya

Our friend Maria has a very strong and specific pet peeve... so Kari had the idea of an interactive present to bring her the kind of satisfaction she'd otherwise never get. She handed me the concept and let me handle the execution, so here's what we got:

Front cover:


Pull on the tab at top:

(you can pull on the bottom tab to reset)

Open the card:


Open the small envelope tucked into the left flap, to find closed-mouth stickers:


Position the stickers over the corresponding faces:


Here's Maria working on the stickers:


Here's the finished card:

...and, I'm back.

Wordpress is real great and all, except nobody told me about the security holes by which someone can apparently hijack your admin account and pump your whole site full of malware. I managed to export all the posts and comments that went on there, so the archive you see here is an unbroken run.

Here are a few chalk drawings I did on construction paper at other people's houses, while I could have been wasting my time being social: