So my neighbors and I went to the Evergreen State Fair a couple weekends ago and man it was quite a time. Strap on your jammies, grab some heart-annihilating fair food and check out these photos I took of some of the spectacles!
This hoss really really loved being petted on the snout. He kept sticking it on out like in the photo until he got nose-scritches from a passerby.EVERGREEN STATE FAIR!
Fashion
Now, see, I’m no fashionista but I do know when someone looks like Rainbow Brite just shat all over them, and it’s basically this guy:
This was at the Microsoft cafeteria. Way to fuel the nerd-who-can’t-dress-himself stereotype there, friend.
Regarder
Ink on paper…I drew this guy for an art gallery a few years back for the Draw project, where identical pieces of paper are sent out to artists all over the country who are free to create whatever they want on it, however they want, which are then shown at a gallery opening in (I think) Vermont, and auctioned off to support the show and charity. A very fun project…it’s awesome to see what other people come up with for this kind of thing.
Enigma
The Enigma performing at the Lilac City Tattoo Expo, cutting an X into an apple in his teeth with a chainsaw while blindfolded. It only got crazier from there.
Hair Guitar
I took this picture of the guitarist from the band Nashville Pussy as they performed at the 2008 Seattle Tattoo Expo…she was rockin her hair and it took a few shots before I caught it mid-whip like this.
White Bear
This was a photo of model White Bear that I took while at a group shoot near Mount Rainier, WA. I loved how she looked against the red cabin with the light casting side-shadows (all natural lighting was used), and on a whim had her hold up a deer skull she had brought along…ended up being probably the best shots I’d taken all day.
Stovepipe
I painted this little fella over the course of a month or two, it’s done in oils on canvas. The hat going through the cloud was a pretty late addition to the painting but I think it worked out…the guy’s face creeps me out a little bit, it looks like a cross between Willy Wonka and Harpo Marx to me.
Fright Boy
Ahh, frightboy. This was a piece I made for a photoshop contest where the theme was to illustrate a particular emotion…mine was “terror”. The different elements are all from various sources; the boy was originally being dragged to the doctor by his parents, the bed originally had a smiling couple peeking out of it, and the monster is an amalgamation of a spider, a crab and a grizzly bear (the teeth). Pretty creepy!
Consume
This was the first oil painting I’ve made and completed…not sure what sparked the idea but it was an image in my head that I really liked, and was a great way to learn a few things about painting in oils. It’s now hanging up in my bedroom.



























