Arroyo Hondo

I recently went hiking at beautiful Arroyo Hondo and made these quick sketches. I also saw a bobcat which was amazing, but it disappeared down the riverbed before any sketching could happen.

Leyendecker studies, misc sketching, and more Bear Rug

Leyendecker is one of my favorite painters. If for some reason you are not familiar with his work, look it up and fall in love.









...misc animal sketches...





This sketch is for a paneled painting I'm planning. I'm thinking of making each panel 1'x3' so all put together it would be 5'x3'. It's called "The Bird."








Progress on the newest bear rug... I haven't decided what to call him yet. Bernard? Bearnard?

Foam fitting:


Drawing the pattern out on the faux fur:


The faux fur with the pieces removed:


These are the patterns I made for the previous bear rug, Randal:


Here is the side piece pinned on the foam form to check the fit:




I made about 75 more promo packages and sent them out. Thank you to everyone who emailed me, thanking me for these packages! I love hearing from you!

Cute and Dangerous: Round 2?

This is a new piece for the ongoing Cute and Dangerous show at 7 Degrees gallery in Laguna Beach. Check out their website, it's 2 legit 2 quit: http://www.cuteanddangerous.com/

I'm also putting THIS previously posted acrylic painting of a girl riding a horseshoe crab in the show.

This is a preliminary sketch for a personal project I'm working on... there will be more updates as it progresses.



Caricatures from sitting and people-watching at the Getty Villa.


Random doodles to keep busy in the class I was TA-ing.

Finally, don't forget to check out my NEW WEBSITE! I'd really like feedback on it.

Box Project

The boxes are coming!

Here is the original art, the simplified ink drawing, and some photos of the chaos of sorting the 28 cards into sets, and of the silkscreened boxes. These packages are for potential employers... if this describes you and you would like to be put on my mailing list to get a sweet, silkscreened box with 28 promo cards inside please contact me soon (jawcooper@gmail.com). There are less than 50 and they ship out next week. Excitement.

TTFN,
Cooper

This ink-on paper piece entitled "Twist" was part of the "Coisas Esquisitas" show at the C.A.V.E. Gallery and is *SOLD*!





This is a simple ink-on velum copy I made to silk-screen from:




28 cards in a silkscreened box:



The box:



The chaos of sorting all the promo cards into 75 sets of 28:



Video of the cards and the box:

Caricatures and a hare

I've been sketching celebrities and people I see on the street to work on capturing a likeness. I tend to put the same face on all my girls and I want to expand my visual vocabulary. Also... there's a hare.

Can you guess all the celebrities?



















As an artist, people often ask you which of all the things that you've made is your favorite... which is impossible to answer. Nothing I make is precious enough to me to warrant favoritism since I see it all as preliminary work for... whatever I make next. That said, I'll admit that this rough sketch of a hare that I made at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is up there for me.