New Website!

The website went live today, and it's an exciting new frontier for me. In the future, perhaps, some sort of ordering function on it, but that's way too much responsibility for me now. Many thanks to Scott, a true gentlemen, who did all this for a bottle of vodka, and a bunch of promises about future compensation I don't intend to keep. Kidding! Check is totally in the mail, yo!

www.freefallon.com

skin as white as snow

I've started sketching out a few drawings with a Snow White theme. Like many Grimm tales turned Disney, the original folklore is pretty horrific. It's actually a conglomeration of various stories from all over Europe; the gist is the same but the elements vary. Older stories involve our Heroin's mother, not stepmother, ordering her slain in order to consume her daughter's heart and liver. There 7 dwarfs, or thieves, or a city of fairies, even. There's a magic mirror, or a pond, or the moon. There's three attempts to kill Snow, then a death-like sleep and an obsessive royal who somehow rescues the 'tween girl, necrophiliac overtones and all.

And really, Snow herself, while beautiful, was certainly not blessed with brains of any kind. She's gullible and naive. It's the Queen herself who's got the brains and the guts, really. That's what I get from it; the really smart, strong woman, her position usurped by a dim-witted young beauty, attempts to keep her position in the only way available to her; manipulation. So the moral of the story? Hell if I know, maybe that nubile young beauty will always win against brains and experience? Maybe that the opinions women have of one another are too often determined by the opinions of the men they share in their lives...

Winston does NOT approve....

Winston, the official art critic here at FF.

He thinks my current illustration board is quite tasty, but finds my rendering of shadow and light somewhat chaotic.

A-R-T-O-C-D

I did this one years ago, this was really my first Alice piece, I think. Perhaps every Alice piece after was really just trying to get the first one right.

just a humble posting

A wee blog, just to let those fine folks (hi mom!) who care know what I'm up to these days, with the art stuff and any other stuff I might decide is worth sharing.

It is summertime in Portland, and that means it's very, very difficult to get any work done. But I'm forging ahead, working on an illustration and a collage piece at the same time. That's just how dedicated I am, to my art. And how little of a life I have.

That's all for now. I'll admit the whole blog thing seems decidedly too damaging to my street cred, which you just know is an all-consuming worry of mine. So we'll see.