55th Floor is done - work for the show is complete
55th Floor 4' x 5' - the final piece for my show opening May 13 in NYC.
Interview!
There's a great blog called "Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast," and I was lucky enough to be interviwed for it! The site as a great resource for people wanting to know more behind the people that create children's books.
book store in brooklyn
Best looking storefront I've ever seen. Its from WORD on the corner of Franklin and Milton Streets in the historic district of Greenpoint Brooklyn. Looks like they got their Junior Deducer score cards too! I didn't know those were out in the world yet!
Show Poster!
These signed, letter
press, 2-color posters (about 11" x 20" or so) will be available through the Adam Baumgold Gallery and via McSweeney's. I know Baumgold has them now (212-861-7338, abaumgold@aol.com) and if you call he'l send you one for around $10, I think. Archival ink hand-printed on archival paper. None of that ink-jet crap here, folks. BTW - the top left corner has been cut off on all of them. Why? Because it looks COOL.
Stage 2 is DONE!
The 'room' pieces have been watercolored, finally. I took this picture on my living room carpet because I drew, inked and painted these all at home. Tomorrow I'll cut 'em out and glue them to a large, prepared piece of paper with lots of bricks and windows already drawn on it.
Room Interiors in Ink
I still have to watercolor these, draw the exterior of the building in which they will be housed, and glue them on to that building. But this is the layout. Click to enlarge.
The posters have been distributed throughout the land!
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Pegasus Bookstore in Berkeley, Calif
Two Puzzle Pieces with Ink
I've (mostly) inked these two pieces for my larger drawing. These are the two larger pieces - the rest should go pretty quickly I hope. I was thinking that I wouldn't need to watercolor these - but I'm afraid it'd going to need something when it's 'done'. Those large plants are Titan arum flowers that is considered one of the largest flowers in the world. It's frequently referred to as the "corpse flower" because it smells like rotting mammal flesh. From Wikipedia:
The titan arum or Amorphophallus titanum (from Ancient Greek amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + phallos, "penis", and titan, "giant") is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world.
Why I don't animate
I just found this DVD of an animation I made out of my Brooklyn apartment in 2000. Patrick Heliman did the sound from recordings of his Brooklyn apartment radiator hissing. I used a 1960's Bolex 16mm camera mounted on a 2x4 above a table in my studio apartment. Some of the drawings for this film were from a book I editioned (15 of them) called Taught. I used an old, manual shutter release about 50,000 times to make this dumb thing, and consequently wrecked my right arm. Because of that I still use a computer mouse with my left hand. At about 8:28 is the start of another one I did - but for some reason it't not all there. I'll look arounf for it.
New large drawing - pencil layout
Since I can't get to the studio very often since little Will was born, and I need to complete a large 4 ft. x 5 ft. drawing for my May 15th show, I'm trying something new. I started by drawing the layout of a floor in a building - but just the walls. Then I traced the shape of each room and copied that onto the same type of paper (with the grain of the paper going the same direction and the large piece). That way I could take each smaller piece home (room by room) and work on it whenever I have a chance; an hour here, 20 minutes there. When all of the rooms have been inked - I will glue them onto the large piece in my studio. I have no idea how this will turn out - but I know that I'll end of with something.
Gus Twintig's Blog is Up and Running
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he official web site for The Clock Without a Face is up and running (sans the 'clock' video - which should appear shortly). My wife and I built the site, with flash animation by the awesome Julian Birchman. ALSO - there's an amazing mini-documentary video that gives the fascinating true-ish history of the cursed clock.
And(!) Elizabeth Bird of the School Library Journal gave the book a kick-ass review today. I'm stoked.
test drawing for The Clock book
This is a 22" x 22" tester-sketch I made in order to figure out how to make drawings for The Clock Without a Face. It will be included in my May show at Adam Baumgold Gallery.
Final postcard image
Actually, this might just be inserted in an envelope to promote the show. This is the final.
The Book is Finally REAL
I just received three advance copies of the book (ships to stores on May 1) - and it finally feels real! I'm super happy with the printing/binding/feel of the whole thing. Yippee! Pre-order here.
New Ternky Towers poster
I think this will, somehow, sometime, be turned into a letterpress print. Probably. At the very least it'll be (part of) the announcement for my show at Adam Baumgold Gallery this May. And I'll watercolor it, eventually.
pen and ink
I think this will, somehow, sometime, be turned into a letterpress print. Probably. At the very least it'll be (part of) the announcement for my show at Adam Baumgold Gallery this May. And I'll watercolor it, eventually.pen and ink I will also probably use this as the basis for a very large 5' high drawing - with an added exposed floor in the middle.
Eight Mini Crashes in Graphite
These 5" x 5" studies are for the Agricultural Reader 4 (mentioned in this previous post).
more crashes are posted here
