Grinding along

Over the last few weeks I've kind of gotten more into of a "drawing" mode, considering all the distractions around my home, I guess that's the best I can hope for! I was able to finish my very overdue commission picture for a VERY patient customer, the drawing turned out fairly well, and my customer liked it, so that is good!

I have also started a new portrait and I'm filming the whole drawing process and will post the finished video when I'm done. It's going to be in time lapse photography, so the entire drawing process which will take about 20 hours, will be shown in a few minutes, it's my first attempt at this, so the first video is a little rough. From now on, I will record all drawings in this fashion, it really gives you a great look at my drawing technique!

I am leaving tomorrow, Friday Feb. 24th, with my buddy Robert to do some filming and photo studies for my long term project documenting Lake Superior which I've named, "Gitche Gumee Inked". The first leg of this project will cover Duluth, MN to Grand Portage, MN.  There will be four parts of the project that will be broken up into geographical segments of Lake Superior, I will do six original drawings from each segment, 24 drawings in all. Once the entire project is complete, I estimate about four years, they will be displayed at a gallery to be named soon. I plan on launching the details on how people can "pre purchase" prints and fund this project in April, so watch for that!

As for "fatherhood," Vivi is the cutest baby ever, but dang, she is a handful and she only weighs 13lbs, I think it gets easier though right?! She's a very boisterous audience when I'm drawing and she is a very early riser, about 4-5am every morning, that's not my ideal waking time! I wouldn't change a thing though, it's a "good" kind of exhaustion we're dealing with!

Thanks for reading,