Breaching Humpback Whale

Dan started this in his travel moleskine on the flight from Auckland to LAX, on the way back from our trip to Tonga. Obviously still under the spell of the humpback whales off Vava'u.

The scientific name for the baleen whales is mysticetes. Damn right, MYSTIC!

Check out photos from our trip to Tonga to swim with humpback whales HERE.

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What a Man Thinks About...

Well what DAN thinks about anyway...

Why IS that though? And why are humans the only mammal whose females have enlarged breasts?

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Ambonya Morning

November 9, 2010 We were in a very isolated place. Tourists don't come to Ambon much I don't think. Even divers don't come to this silty sandy trash strewn bay for the most part. We were her with a group of underwater photographers though who appreciated the muck diving in the bay of Ambon for the treasures it held - tiny beautiful creatures that are hard to spot on a coral reef, but easy enough to spot crawling across the sand or sitting on an empty paint can in 10 feet of water.

The little dive resort we were staying at had no internet and no TVs and i wake up early mostly, so I found a lot of time to draw. This morning I just watched the sun coming over the mountains on the opposite side of the bay and drew what i saw.

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Vestigial Virgins

2010
pencil on paper
20.5 x 15.5 cm

Part of the "Silverlake Harem" series.

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Reservoir Nymph

2010
pencil on paper
20.5 x 15.5 cm

Part of the "Silverlake Harem" series.

This original drawing is available. Contact us if you wish to purchase it.

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Pestilence On A Rice Rocket

2010
pencil on paper
15 x 10 cm

This drawing can be hung upside down or right side up...

Part of the "Silverlake Harem" series.

This original drawing is available. Contact us if you wish to purchase it.

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The Tempters

pencil
2005

Group Portrait by Dan of an early 70's J-pop boy band, The Tempters.

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Nakano in Spring (中野の春)

pencil, digital
2009

This panoramic is set outside the train station at Nakano in Tokyo. It describes a mysterious magical occurrence one fateful spring day, as a mysterious sakura tree erupts in the middle of the bus depot! As with many of our panoramics we are always tickled by odd and magical occurrences going mostly unnoticed by city dwellers. Some of them almost think they see something, a flash at the corner of their peripheral vision, a weird momentary wash of color in the sky, but then its gone again...

The work debuted as a 10 foot wide print at the Giant Robot Biennale at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles on October 24th, 2009.

Click HERE to view the panoramic as a QTVR!

A limited signed and numbered edition poster is available in our webshop.

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Spirit Animal Collective

24 x 36” unframed, 30 x 42” framed
Graphite on paper. 2009

The largest drawing kozy has done in the "Unknown Portraits" style to date. Little did we know that cameras, at least in early incarnations before the invention of modern film, did in fact capture a piece of one's soulwith each picture. Here is a class photo where all the students spirit animals have emerged to pose with their "bodies".

The artwork will appear in our upcoming exhibition at Magic Pony's Narwhal Art Projects in Toronto opening tomorrow, October 1st, 2009.

Even viewing LARGE doesn't really do it justice...

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