New print for Bottleneck Gallery's "Cant' Beat Em, Join Em" zombie themed show which opens tonight and runs through October 28th. Bottleneck is a great new gallery in brooklyn that donates a chunk of every show's earnings to a different charity. I'm happy to be a part of this months show which is working to help support The American Red Cross.

This is a four color print measuring about 10" x 15" and is inspired by the movie  Zombie Land. Its in an edition of 35. For more info on the show please visit: www.bottleneckgallery.com

Also, next week Countdown to (En)Danger opens in Philadelphia's own B2. ALL proceeds from this show go to benefit the World Wild Life Fund. Show open on Saturday October 13th at 6pm and runs for about a month. The show was put together by Ryann Casey and Josh Robeson and if its anything like their previous charity shows, this should be a lot of fun. For more info please visit: worldwildlife.org or Facebook.com/worldwildlife

Had a lot of fun working on this print. Its four colors and is about 12" x 19". And again, all proceeds from this show go to the WWF.

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Fishy!

So I have a couple more new things. This first thing was my design for the open house poster (without type). It's sockeye salmon jumping upstream.

This next thing is sort of about the tsunami, but it's more about how mother nature can be beautiful and destructive all at once. 

she's NOT to Coy for her KOI....

Just some digital work....sharpening my knives...
Hope you dig...
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Little about the scene had changed since the great fish swam in the age of reptiles

acrylic on panel 18"X24"

Kiss

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What a Whopper !

Alright it's been a few weeks since my last post.

I just had the hankering to paint some fun fish.

Water color, ink ,and color pencil. This was also a

test I switches inks and am using Black Cat ink by Dick

Blick it's actually really good and water proof. Not like that junky

Higgins ink. Hope you like

Published: The War Resisters League

This is a quick set up of the publication, of an illustration, for an article I did for the winter 2009 / vol. 26 of WIN magazine (The Magazine of the War Resisters League). The article talks about Capitalism's burning house and how we're getting hurt by it. I have to thank my brother Matt Cavanaugh for the heads up on this one. Also, check out the awesome cover by Daniel Fishel.

WWW.WARRESISTERS.ORG/WIN

To view the full illustration go to my black & White (editorial) section on my blog. I'm planning on retouching and editing parts of it for a more "final" look.

Cheers!

If you weren't at F.U.E.L. last friday

You totally missed out on some great art. Here are some shots of our very own Shane, Eric, Tim, Collie, Mike, and I showing stuff at Fuel here in Philadelphia and a few shots of awesome art that was also exhibited.

Wilting away

Amy Winehouse; wilting away and lifeless as doctors tell her that if she continues to smoke crack, not only will her mild emphysema (she got from smoking crack) get worse, but she could end up dying. This was in the news this summer about the British super star.

I did this as one of my summer spots for Joe at U of A, and I am posting this because it's one of my favorite I have done.

Enjoy.

I <3 Fliers

So on my blogger I posted that I was going to print this flier out, and it being one of the first fliers I printed after the long summer of just really re-investigating the way I draw, and how I approach my medium.

I printed this flier in Gold, Silver and black ink, hence the huge glare. I printed 26 of them because I was fearful of not selling well at this venue where I usually only sell about 2 or 3. I usually break even when I do fliers up in doylestown at Siren Records.

I posted it up here because it's the first gig poster I printed that I sold out of at the show. I was pretty shocked to of sold as many as I did but I am not complaining none the less either. Below is a digital version for your own personal view.

Thanks guys!

Punk Rock's The 3rd World

So growing up, I always heard "Eat all your food, there are kids in the third world that are starving and don't have the chance to have what we have"

Now at 21 years old, I recently had the chance to do something about that. I got a call from Soupy from the philadelphia based pop punk band The Wonder Years, to "donate" a shirt design that would be printed and all the money from that design would go to the Heifer Foundation. The band said they wanted to do it for these guys because there are organizations like To Write Love on her arms, which has bands backing it up, but don't say where the money is going except that they sell t-shirts. Where is the money going?

So they wanted to do something that is fun like their other shirts but sorta spoke the same about what this foundation is all about. H.F. is a organization that sends a cow a chicken to a family in a third world country to have milk and eggs every morning. So once they make enough money they find a family and give them the animals. I thought it was a great idea, so I shot off ideas, did a final and gave 3 color variations, and this is the final.

It will be in print after they get off tour around September/October. All money from the shirts will go straight to the foundation, and the shirts are, "from what I am told", being printed on Organic T-shirts and Organic hand made inks.

Band: http://www.myspace.com/thewonderyearspa

Foundation: http://www.heifer.org/

new piece "Kelp Drift"

see my blog for what this for and about. enjoy.

My "Fisherman's Wife"

Here's my sketch for the Fisherman's Wife theme, i drew her in front of some family photos, hubby in the middle some fish friends and some other noteworthy sea pals.

"Dorado" oil sketches

for upcoming piece for "Marlin" magazine online gallery.
sorry never explained what the hell this was for

First post on the new Autumn Society blog

So I want to first start off by thanking Joe for re-inviting me to the blog, to share some of the works that I am proud of or some in progress' stuff to share for opinion along the way.



Got an e-mail from Mike asking me what fliers I wanted to make this summer from the current line up on the Staggered works page, and I chose this show. Thought I would try a sequential page with this flier, and I also took on a looser, flatter approach that I usually do with my other work.

Hope you like it.